WILDLIFE

Painted Stripes: 30″x40″ oil on wood. The zebra offers a symbolic duality of light and dark, white and black. It’s a pattern to confuse the predators, but only in the conformity of other zebras, never alone does it stand to be an advantage for survival. Yet it’s easy to make wrong assumption of purpose for stripes, as we often fail to understand our own skin colors. This is illustrated with the dripping white paint, because zebra is actually black with white stripes.
The Coming of Winter: 30″x40″ oil on wood
Tiger Stripes: 24″x36″ oil on wood
Vanishing Code: 30″x40″ oil on wood. The great tusker, named for having very large, long tusks, are slowly disappearing through an unnatural selection. Poaching is eliminating the gene pool of long tusk elephants, hence the genetics for shorter tusks are passed on because of its greater chance for survival.
Bear and Honey: 24″x30″ oil on wood
The Nemean King: 24″x36″ oil on wood
Wisdom: 60″ x 72″ oil on Canvas
Fresh Stripes: 18″x24″ oil on wood
Stripes and Glow: 24″x30″ oil on wood
Equus quagga bonita: 24″x36″oil on wood
Lions Tree Climbing 101: 30″x40″ oil on wood
Age and Wisdom: 36″x36″ oil on wood.
Rest Day: 30″x48″ oil on canvas
Black Rhino at Sunset: 24″x30″ oil on wood
Pretty in Pink: 18″x36″ oil on wood
Artic Encounter: 30″x40″ oil on wood
The Grace of Humpback Whales: 24″x36″ oil on wood
A Temperature Composition of the Artic: 24″x30″ oil on Wood. I ponder on what a painting of environmental change of the arctic looks like? The Arctic is warming three times as fast and the global average. The melting of snow and ice exposes a darker surface and increases the amount of solar energy absorbed. This significant regional warming leads to continued loss of sea ice, melting of glaciers and ice caps. Polar bears rely heavily on sea ice for traveling, hunting, resting and mating. I wanted to create a moving representation of the warming of the permafrost, decrease in snow cover, shrinking of glaciers, and disappearing of sea ice. I wanted the movement in the piece to represent this continuous change, a battle of cool and warm and the chaos of complex changes.
The Magnificent Tusker: 48″x60″ oil on canvas
Facing Thunder: 48″x 48″ oil on canvas