Michael Sieve – Hunter’s Eyes Artist’s Hands
“I decided awhile back that I wouldn’t paint any animal unless I’d seen it first.” It’s a dangerous trap to fall into, but I’d formed quite a few impressions about Michael Sieve through his paintings long before I ever met him. You hear...
Raymond Harris-Ching Thrilled By the Sight
Harris-Ching is one of the handful of artists who advanced the position of wildlife painting into a serious artistic genre. The ground is tinder dry, the air is suffocating — infuriatingly unlike air — more like the fug under a woolen blanket. Under the midday sun,...
The Spotted Devil of Gummalapur
Kenneth Douglas Stuart Anderson (1910-1974) was an Anglo-Indian who spent most of his life in Bangalore, India. An avid hunter, he was fascinated by the subcontinent’s big cats, and most of his tales dealt with the drama and dangers of man-killing tigers and...
Old Three Toes
“Three Toes,” said an old rancher, with a kind of reverence, “is the fastest, longest-winded wolf that ever lived.” A smile swept across the craggy, weather-beaten face of Clyde F. Briggs as he read a telegram from the U. S, Biological Survey:...
Francis Golden – That Golden Touch
Truly this is Golden’s touch, to give us the moment tinged with feeling…[by] putting his own enthusiasm on paper with sensitivity and style. I am not a fly fisherman, but the experience of standing in a rushing stream casting to trout lurking in deep pools...
Venator Laurentian Estate
Covering some 22,000 square miles of territory just north of Montreal in the southern part of Quebec, the Laurentian Mountains consist of Precambrian rocks more than 540 million years old, making its soft peaks among the oldest in the world. SPONSORED CONTENT: Here,...
Roasted Brays Quail and Foie Gras
Quail is a staple at Brays Island, and with the season starting in just a few months, we thought we would share a favorite recipe from our very own Executive Chef Bryant Withers. Roasted Brays Quail filled with wild mushrooms & Foie Gras Wrapped with bacon Yield-6...
Artist Chad Poppleton
The artist has already achieved a distinctive style for conveying the spirit of each animal in his paintings.
A Call For Africa
Three talented artists are creating a spectacular tribute to a legendary African river and its wildlife.