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...
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...
Furrow Auction Company 2023

Furrow Auction Company 2023

This is YOUR chance to own what very few in the world do! SPONSORED CONTENT: Furrow Auction Company is conducting an online-only auction for the Estate of Safari Club International lifetime member’s collection of Taxidermy from around the world and a huge assortment...
Where There is a Wil…

Where There is a Wil…

A painter he is, and that’s what he always wanted to be… His house is what realtors, in Salisbury, Maryland, call a two-story “Colonial.” It sits near the back of a tasteful subdivision — meaning one where developers have left standing the native loblolly...
A Trip Back To Yesteryear (Pre-1900)

A Trip Back To Yesteryear (Pre-1900)

Why are American deer hunters so infatuated with the past? What is it about looking at old pictures from yesteryear that stirs our very being? Hunting touches the soul. When we go back in time and see how our grandfathers and great grandfathers took to the woods and...
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,...
Linda Besse Adventures in Art

Linda Besse Adventures in Art

Don’t think of Linda as some sort of five-foot-four female Indiana Jones who’s hellbent on adventure. Rather, she’s a rare spirit who is both good and lucky, an unbearable combination for a wildlife artist. The leopard had appeared fairly tame....
Derrydale Press Prints Without Peer

Derrydale Press Prints Without Peer

Derrydale. To American sportsmen the name brings to mind handsome, leather-bound, strikingly illustrated books and prints that convey the essence of the sporting experience. Eugene V. Connett III founded The Derrydale Press in 1926, “to produce a group of books...
Eric Forlee A Painter Charged with Life

Eric Forlee A Painter Charged with Life

And “charged” with life is exactly what he means. Incredibly, he has had no formal art training, yet he is considered by many to be among the world’s best wildlife artists. He considers himself a cultural orphan, whose life experiences span three...