Grace in Bronze: Wildlife Sculptures by Fred Boyer

Grace in Bronze: Wildlife Sculptures by Fred Boyer

SPONSORED CONTENT For Fred Boyer, there is no separation between living a rich outdoor sporting life that has little to do with money and celebrating it in a way so that we, the viewers, literally feel the texture of what he’s expressing in our hands. If Boyer’s not...
Tucker Smith: Painting the Wild Winds

Tucker Smith: Painting the Wild Winds

One enduring memory I have is of a silhouetted figure, the outline of a cowboy hat, the rangy gesture of a man, hand extended, holding what appeared to be a magic wand, reaching toward a small square surface tilted upright on an easel. Steadily, as clouds churned...
Caught on Canvas

Caught on Canvas

“I don’t deliberately try to make my paintings look different from other people’s, but maybe one of the reasons they do is because I don’t consciously imitate anyone artist’s approach.” Assuming that you buy Mark Susinno’s...
Maynard Reece’s Legacy Is Protected Habitat

Maynard Reece’s Legacy Is Protected Habitat

In all of art history, never has there been a more venerable emblem of wildlife conservation than the tiny U.S. Federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp. Invented by an American sportsman during the Dust Bowl to protect habitat for migratory birds, revenue generated...
Peter Principals In African Wildlife Art

Peter Principals In African Wildlife Art

Peter Gray and Peter Stewart, two painters living in South Africa, inhabit different corners of the Cape region and chronologically are a generation apart. But each welcomes the direction that contemporary wildlife art is taking. In case you haven’t noticed,...
David Langmead and Dangerous Liaisons

David Langmead and Dangerous Liaisons

“If I have any legacy, I want it to be that of an artist who was passionately in love with Africa.” Ross Parker knows the color of truth in African wildlife art. As a native Zimbabwean raised in the dust of ruby red sunsets, he says no day in the bush is...
James Stroud and South Africa Now

James Stroud and South Africa Now

There is nothing meek or ambiguous about a charging elephant, especially when the tusker in question appears to be lunging off a canvas from South African painter James Stroud. Stroud’s vivid wildlife portraits are so different from the flat surfaces of most...
Visions from the Veldt – Kim Donaldson

Visions from the Veldt – Kim Donaldson

A touchstone of Donaldson’s work is his ability to translate the feeling one gets in encountering tremendous volumes of open space. Kim Donaldson could do nothing to prevent his eyelids from closing. His mind was drifting in and out of fitful sleep and his body,...
Joshua Spies the Wide World

Joshua Spies the Wide World

For Joshua Spies, it’s about payback. Across the lonesome, windblown prairie of northern mid-America, locals know him simply as “the kid.” On this morning, the prodigal artistic son of Watertown, South Dakota, stands in his studio surrounded by six...