Trumpeter Swans, Martindale Flats

Trumpeter Swans, Martindale Flats, acrylic on panel. 12x16 $350 unframed, $450 framed. 5x7 cards available. Trumpeter Swans overwinter on the agricultural fields and wetland near our home and are a common feature of winter birding trips. Winter wet also makes for glorious mud and puddles, I love painting all three!

Young Great Horned Owls in Bigleaf Maple

Young Great Horned Owls in a Bigleaf Maple, 12x24 Acrylic Painting, $525. This painting of two young Great Horned Owls was from a scene in our backyard a few years ago. All spring and summer the young were active and visible most days. The magnificent tree they often perched in is now gone, the victim of summer droughts.

Columbia Spotted Frog and Water Striders

12x16 Acrylic painting SOLD. Columbia Spotted Frogs often sit on the bottom of ponds and small pools as "sit and wait" predators. In this painting several of our largest water striders (Limnoporus notabilis) are skimming the surface of the pond. Loved the challenges of painting water reflecting several colours and subjects on both the surface and the bottom of the pond.

"Serengeti Cleanup" Wildebeast and Dung Beetle

12X16 Acryilic painting. $350 unframed $450 framed. Our visit to the Serengeti during the Wildebeast migration was an unforgettable experience. Following the massive heards were Dung Beetles, flying like bullets at waist height and dropping down to fresh dung shortly after it was deposited. Working from photos we took in Tanzania I did this painting expecting to easily identify the species of Dung Beetle, unaware that the Seregenti has dozens of species and many of them are not easily identified!