We are a global art, environmental education and conservation charity with drawing, one of the oldest forms of communication, at its core. Founded by artist Jane Lee McCracken, to share her passions for drawing and wildlife, we partner with international wildlife charity Born Free, conservationists, artists, educators and cultural institutions. Through our art, education, exhibition and conservation fundraising projects we give children, communities and wildlife a voice.

Learn more about who we are and what we do in our video:

We are volunteer run with 100% of donations going to our projects:

Our projects give the gift of art and nature to urban and rural communities across the planet. Through our workshops children learn about and connect with nature and the wildlife they draw, and through the exhibitions Jane curates, children have the exciting opportunity to see their drawings displayed in public spaces. We believe education is a key component to reversing the biodiversity crisis and through art, we nurture compassion towards wildlife, and empower children and communities to take collective responsibility for Earth's precious ecosystems. If we care, we want to conserve.

Join Drawing for the Planet and support our art and environmental education projects. Your membership provides art equipment to schools located around the world. Children learn through our workshops to love and respect wildlife, as well as understand the threats many species are facing and how we can help conserve them. Your membership also contributes, through our donations, to the vital work of conservation organisations protecting vulnerable species, like the African buffalo in Edward's drawing below. Membership plans start from as little as the cost of a pack of ballpoint pens, and provide children with the invaluable give of drawing.

See some of the children's drawings for the Where Did All the Animals Go? project exhibition on permanent display at the Great North Museum: Hancock in our video:

Jane Lee McCracken constructs intricate multi-layered Biro (ballpoint pen) drawings, sculptures, installations and designs products. Her art practice explores loss of both humans and animals generated by human destruction and represents the beauty and brutal reality of life. Over the last decade, through her art she has raised funds for conservation organisations and delivered drawing and environmental education workshops to thousands of people across the world. In 2019 she founded Where Did All the Animals Go? project in partnership with Born Free and in 2021 founded Drawing for the Planet. Explore Jane's art:

Since 2019 thousands of drawings of wildlife have been created by children across the world for Jane's Where Did All the Animals Go? exhibitions, learning in her workshops that "everyone can draw". Through the beauty of child art, these drawings celebrate animals as individual beings that live their own lives according to their needs, contemplating what their eyes have seen, and often representing a species facing extinction. 

Our projects, exhibitions and murals provide an opportunity to form emotional connections with each species, through the creative response of a generation of young people.