Combining my deep love for animals with a passion for art, I specialize in creating highly detailed, realistic colored pencil drawings of wildlife. My portfolio includes both original pieces and commissioned works, each crafted with meticulous attention to capturing the unique character and beauty of every animal. Through my art, I aim to bring these creatures to life on paper, celebrating the natural world in its most vibrant and authentic form.
It never crossed my mind before to write about the images I make, because that isn’t really the point of it, it’s not supposed to need words. As I remember reading back when I was in school, “the viewer creates the meaning”, which is true, but the artist still sends them down the path to looking for meaning. Frederick Barnard famously wrote “a picture is worth a thousand words”, but I think a picture is worth a thousand thoughts or emotions, and it’s trying to access an interplay of thoughts and emotions that happens before the translation to words.
The paths of thoughts and emotions that art evokes will differ depending on the viewer, but the process does sometimes develop more depth when the person who made it talks about its purpose and where it came from in their own mind. Art can draw attention to something overlooked, like the political art of Ai Weiwei, or Rebecca Belmore’s “Wave Sound” that heightens the viewer’s (or listener’s) connection with the surroundings. It can also be made to glorify something, like public statues and the religious art of history. It can be made to express directly to the emotions, and music probably does this best. It also can be made as a record of something, a particular street scene or a formal portrait, or to tell a story. And lastly, it can be made as a way to make money which sometimes means the customer’s expression encroaches or takes precedent over that of the artist.
The credit for any photographs that my be used as an inspiration for the drawings will be included on the reverse of each piece.