Painting the Ice Bear ― A Visual Investigation

When he was a boy, Mark Adlington was fascinated by animals. Unlike most of us, however, he never let it go—instead, he became a painter and made them his subject, traveling the globe to observe and paint the most beautiful, breathtaking wild animals on the planet. Combining intensive on-site work and preparation with countless subsequent hours in the studio creating his images, Adlington has become one of the most popular wildlife painters working today.

?This book brings together more than one hundred and fifty of Adlington’s images of polar bears. The product of countless trips to both wildlife reserves in Europe and the far reaches of the northern Canadian wilderness, these images are beautiful and powerful in equal measure, as Adlington brilliantly conveys the solitary power and elegance of the polar bear in its habitat. 

Mark Adlington is a London based artist who travels extensively in search of the wildlife which has been his principal obsession since early childhood. He works extensively on site before returning to the studio to try and recreate the immediacy of his responses to the animals using various and often mixed media. He exhibits regularly in London and abroad, and occasionally works to commission. He is represented by the John Martin of London Gallery in Mayfair, and by the Bridgeman Art Library. Adlington's work is bought by collectors worldwide. His otter watercolours were used in Unicorn's bestselling centenary edition of Gavin Mawell's Ring of Bright Water. Adlington's images have the second highest number of downloads from Bridgemans website.