Artist Reply: Hi Ralph, thanks very much for your nice compliments. Actually this was a digital creation using Corel Painter and CS5. The elephants are a photograph I took, cut out and transposed on my background. This was my first attempt when starting to paint again. It was motivated from my recent trip to S Africa, a country which I love.

Artist Reply: Pamela, many thanks for your complimentary remark. So sorry not to have responded earlier. Where we live in Wales, internet is a real struggle and I can't even get it sometimes. Thanks again.