Lindsey Foggett’s future seemed determined from a very early age. Growing up in a small village in the heart of the English countryside, she soon developed a love and fascination for wildlife and nature. Encouraged by two artistically talented parents, her passion to paint and study wildlife was to evolve into a lifelong career. Self-taught, Lindsey paints primarily with acrylic, and occasionally gouache, and has painted full time for 33 years. She works in a natural, detailed style, striving to portray not only realism, but also to capture the mood and personality of the animals. Her work focuses in on North American predatory animals, showing not only their powerful intense nature but also their gentle, nurturing, softer side.
To obtain reference for her work, she has traveled throughout much of North America, where she observes, sketches and photographs wildlife within their natural habitat. Research trips have included extended canoeing expeditions into remote wilderness areas. One such trip entailed a 170 mile journey along the George River, in Northern Quebec, Canada, to the Arctic Ocean. Wittnessing caribou herds, black bear and birds by day and the northern lights by night.
Currently residing in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California, she has an abundance of reference for new paintings. Local trails into the wilderness surround her home, where bears, mountain lions, bobcats, deer, raccoons, coyotes and many other animals are frequently sighted. San Gorgonio Gallery is owned by Lindsey and displays her work, in downtown Forest Falls, California.
Lindsey’s work has been exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the United States and internationally in Hong Kong and Mayfair, London. Shows in the United States include the Southeastern Wildlife Expo, SC, Arts for Parks Top 100, Nature Works, Tulsa, OK, Art of The Animal Kingdom, Bennington, VT. Lindsey has been featured artist in the Florida Wildlife Expo, FL (2000), Wonders of Nature, Fallbrook, CA (2000), Wildlife Art Festival, San Bernardino, CA (1997, 2009), Southeastern Invitational Miniature Show, Germanton, NC (2002). Lindsey is a signature member of both The Society of Animal Artists and Artists for Conservation.
White tigers appear frequently in literature, video games, television, and comic books. Such examples include the Swedish rock band Kent, which featured a white tiger on the cover of their best-selling album Vapen & ammunition in 2002. This was a tribute to the band's home town Eskilstuna, as the local zoo in town had white tigers from the Hawthorn Circus as its main attraction. The white tiger has also been featured in the video for the song "Human" by the popular American synth-rock band The Killers. White Tiger is also the name of an American glam metal band from the 1980s. In the live action version of Disney's 101 Dalmatians, Cruella de Vil kills a white tiger for its fur. Seto Bagh (or white tiger in English) is a Nepali language novel by Diamond Shumsher Rana about an encounter with a white tiger.
Aravind Adiga's novel The White Tiger won the Man Booker Prize in 2008.[41] The central character and narrator refers to himself as "The White Tiger". It was a nickname given to him as a child to denote that he was unique in the "jungle" (his hometown), that he was smarter than the others. Video games including white tigers include Zoo Tycoon, the Warcraft universe, and Perfect World International. White Tigers are featured as a wild, tamable "pet" companion in Guild Wars Factions. White tigers are also seen in Heroes of Might and Magic IV. The protector of the mystical world of Shangri-La in Far Cry 4 is a white tiger that allies with the protagonist to defeat demons.[42]
Both the Power Rangers and the Japanese Super Sentai series from which the Power Rangers series is based on, have had White Tiger themed Rangers and mecha. A trained white tiger from the Bowmanville Zoo in Ontario, Canada, was used in the Animorphs TV series. A superhero named White Tiger appears in "The Justice Friends" on Dexter's Laboratory. Marvel Comics also publishes several superheroes who go by the name White Tiger. A white tiger named White Blaze is frequently shown in the anime Ronin Warriors. Tigatron from the animated TV series Transformers: Beast Wars is based on the white tiger. There have been at least 4 heroes in Marvel comics called "The White Tiger": two gained powers from a group of three mystic amulets that they possessed, one was actually a tigress evolved by the High Evolutionary, and one was given an artificial version of the "Black Panther's Heart Shaped Herb".
Kylie Chan's 'Dark Heavens' series incorporates the four winds of Chinese mythology – including The White Tiger. In Hayate the Combat Butler, Tama; Nagi Sanzenin's pet tiger is a white tiger. In Colleen Houck's series beginning with the novel Tiger's Curse, one of the main characters, Ren, is shown as a white tiger. In 2013, a white tiger used for election campaign in Lahore, Pakistan died of dehydration.[43] A white tiger named Mantecore was used as part of Siegfried & Roy's Siegfried & Roy at the Mirage Resort and Casino magical show. In 2014, Mantecore died at the age of 17 due to illness.