One of my current commissions is a large oil painting of the remarkable Tasmanian Wolf or Thylacine, an animal that has fascinated me since my childhood. This dog-like marsupial was hunted to extinction by Australian sheep farmers, in the early part of the last century. The last known specimen died in Hobart Zoo in 1936.
The few existing black and white photographs, and film clips, have been extremely helpful, but were not sufficient for me to gain all of the information that I required.
Fortunately I was able to make a detailed study of a preserved specimen at Walter Rothchild's Natural History Museum, in Tring, Hertfordshire.
