We offer FREE delivery in Mainland UK and Northern Ireland on any orders over £150.00 on all but glazed or really delicate art work. However, he passionately believes that our frail dreams are worth nurturing and that love and honesty will triumph over adversity. He doesn’t hide the fact that often life is a struggle, a dark tunnel which can seem endless. Mackenzie’s perspective on life is clear.
His works are a tribute to the creativity within us all and are a vivid expression of hope and the human spirit. His works express an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of self-reflection and individual triumphs. Since then, he has become one of the world’s most collected and sought-after artists. His lack of education and a barely readable application did nothing to warrant support, but the strength and volume of work that Mackenzie presented, coupled with his enthusiasm and commitment, won him a place at the Middlesbrough College of Art and, subsequently, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London.Īfter leaving art school, he spent several years working with inner-city children in London before moving to North Yorkshire to set up a studio, as well as his own gallery with his wife, Susan, and children, Owen and Chloe. Mackenzie eventually got the courage to enter the local art college. Unsurprisingly, he left school without formal qualifications, taking on a variety of manual, unskilled jobs while continuing to draw and paint. Struggling from dyslexia throughout his childhood, Mackenzie found confidence in painting and drawing. As a child, he would seek out whatever raw materials he could find, drawing on cigarette packs with stubs of pencils, or using eye-shadow and lipstick illicitly obtained from his mum’s makeup bag. The need and compulsion to draw was obvious from an early age and remains with Mackenzie today. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. Life for the Thorpe family was no different to that of most of their community – at times a struggle. Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. It is our responsibility to love these children, to let them bring love back to the world, and to keep our eyes open to the wonderment of childhood.” This is a photograph for doting fathers - I will keep one for sure.“My ambition is to unite the world through the eyes of these children and let today’s cultures understand that in order to sustain our societies, we must protect and nurture our children, and also protect and nurture the child within us all. This is a simple picture - there was no high level of skill in its capture but that is fine with me, we don’t need to break the atom every time we go on assignment, sometimes nature does the hard work for us.
On this day, I was clearly most fortunate. Normally pictures of more than one gorilla in the same setting tend to be a little messy and it is odds against each gorilla being the same focal distance from the camera, hence some members of the troop are sharper than others. But more importantly, he told me that it is rare to see the lead silverback and one of the young members of the troop chilling together alone in such an open setting.Ĭertainly, I have been up the mountain 15 times and this is the first time I have had this special encounter. The reason it appeals to him is that the image is in part a nod to the high number of babies born every year - 28 in the last year alone, which is proof of the outstanding conservation story in the Rwandan National Park. David Yarrow: "The Chief Park Warden of Volcanoes National Park - Prosper Unwingeli - likes this photograph a great deal, which I guess is instructive in that he has seen it all, both in the park itself and also through the lenses of those that make the trek up the mountain.
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