Never Give Up

Never Give Up

Feather serves as an object lesson in the art of not only living with a disability, but achieving goals that the rest of the world tries to tell you are unattainable.

Kings of the Hill

Kings of the Hill

Only four years apart in their native Germany, Wilhelm Kuhnert and Carl Rungius would go on to become preeminent painters of the world’s big game. For a short time in the late-1880s their trails crossed, the two young bulls setting out to make their ways in the...
Best of Breed

Best of Breed

If immortality is nothing more, or less, than the condition of being remembered, the dogs profiled here will always remain vibrantly and brilliantly alive. These canines are, by any reckoning, the Best of Breed. Not long ago, I had occasion to write to a man I’d never...
Poetry In Paint

Poetry In Paint

“The subject of my art is a look, not a story.” If Eldridge Hardie had his druthers, this would be among the shortest articles ever written. It’s not a matter of being publicity-shy, or of wanting to cultivate a certain “arty” image, or...
Youth Field Trial Alliance

Youth Field Trial Alliance

A Cause We Can All Get Behind I want to give a shout-out to a relatively new organization whose presence on the sporting landscape can’t be viewed as anything but a good thing: the Youth Field Trial Alliance. The brainchild of Chris Mathan, the human dynamo behind...
The Odyssey of An Artist

The Odyssey of An Artist

“From the very beginning, being an artist was my first choice.” You can tour the most discriminating galleries, visit the most thoughtfully-curated exhibitions. As you walk these clean, well-lighted places, you stop, as much from duty as interest, to study...
Julie Jeppsen Believes Practice Makes Perfect

Julie Jeppsen Believes Practice Makes Perfect

“…I could do it if I practiced enough.” It’s not uncommon, upon meeting Julie Jeppsen for the first time, to find yourself doing a double take just a few minutes later. Let’s say you’re at the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition in...
Ever Ancient Ever New: The Still-Life

Ever Ancient Ever New: The Still-Life

If any art is truly timeless, it is the still-life. The still-life does not depict a moment frozen in time, a chosen instant snatched from the temporal current, but a moment outside of time, beyond its erosive reach. There is no past or future, only an eternal...