Pamela Voysey
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Pamela paints in watercolour , acrylics, oils and most other mediums, generally a still life painter, but Pamela does also like to paint animals and other subjects.
ARTIST'S REASON FOR PARTICIPATING
Orangutans are wonderful endearing creatures and am excited to have the opportunity to finally paint one for this great cause. I am dismayed by the threat of their extention. This is my small way of contributing to their survival.
Sigit
Sigit, a male of only about 1 1/2 years old, arrived during the summer of 2009. A Chinese man brought him to the centre wearing baby clothes. He had bought him a few months before but had gradually become concerned about the orangutan’s welfare and decided to hand him over to the centre.
Sigit was very inquisitive and liked to investigate everything around him.
When we took him out to play, first of all he looks around and then gradually he starts to investigate the grass, the leaves and every little stick that is lying around, and sometimes he tries to climb the trees too. He sometimes played with Melky and Bunga but when he was still a baby he soon got tired and would run to a keeper for protection!
Sigit now spends his time in the Ketapang protected forest in forest school with the rest of the juvenile orangutans learning many skills to survive as a wild orangutan once again in the Borneo rainforest
