Tim Saunders LONDON — There are just 122 paintings shortlisted in this year's BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 competition. Fourteen of those paintings belong to just three artists. Tanya Lock, originally from New Zealand but now living in Wiltshire, UK has had seven paintings chosen in this prestigious event: The Homemaker, Day Before the Flood, Here today, gone tomorrow, Hungry Hill, Mermaids, Feeling Blue, and Baby Bushbucks hide away. “I am thrilled to have so many paintings shortlisted,” says Tanya, who won the Frozen Planet section of the competition last year with her Icy Swim penguin painting. Then Paul Matthews from Dorset, UK has had six of his painting selected: Red stag, Otter, Ice bear, Eagle Owl, Deer, and After dinner stretch. Finally, Dr Jeremy Paul from the Isle of Man, who is a three times category winner of the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year, has had his ‘Otter' selected in the British Mammals category. — SG
