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This page is a work in progress - I am hoping that I can add more art work to it in the next little
while.
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A good body of my work has been influenced by environmental causes. In fact, pretty much all of my
work has an environmental message. Even my earliest fragmented animals - speak of tragedies, near extinctions,
destroyed land, or even question land use & zoning issues.
I have noticed that my landscapes are
just as precious - farms I have painted are being turned into sub-divisions, my roadside influenced paintings
also provide a vivid example of changes in land use - growing population and the turning of rural meadows
into some form of development. It has become evident to me that everything is changing at a rapid rate.
Are we moving too fast? Are we not thinking of the future? We share this planet with a wide myriad
of life - and all life is precious.
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Bighorn Sheep at Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Reserve, Arizona - 1996 - 18" x 24" - Ink on Watercolour
Paper. An Air Force range in that area performs live fire exercises. The sound of the super-sonic planes
completely petrifies the Bighorn Sheep in the area - This Reserve was created in 1939 - with the intention
of protecting the Bighorn Sheep. This painting was influenced by an article writen by Jessica Stewart
in 1996.
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The Flag of Land Re-Introduced to Wolves - 1997 - Ink on Watercolour Paper - 12" x 18". This painting
was inspired by the attempts to re-introduce the wolf back to Yellowstone Park - I remember hearing about
meetings in the cinema at Gardiner - people on both sides were very passionate about re-introducing the
wolf - I believe that the re-introduction of wolves in Yellowstone has currently ceased.
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Blue Pike - Ink and Watercolour on Watercolour Paper - 18" x 24" - - - "From 1885 to 1962, fishermen
on lakes Erie and Ontario landed about a billion pounds of blue pike, making it one of the most important
commercial inland species in the United States....By the late 1960's, their numbers had plummeted....The
last documented species was taken in 1965. In 1972 the Blue Pike was declared extinct. The species
had gone from abundance to extinction in scarcely a generation." (Mark Jerome Walters, 1996)
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Old Tex - 1996 - Ink on Watercolour Paper - 18" x 24". This paintings inspiration came from a book
my friend Randy had - the book was about the history of the land around Yellowstone Park - I was very
fascinated by Old Tex - who in 1925 became too dangerous for the semi-ranching operation of the time....
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Fish Tales - Environmental Tails of Fish
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