Wildlife Artists Gallery

Our Artists,
What are they up to?

Neil Allen - September 2009

Neil won the overall prize of BBC Wildlife Artist
of the year award with my detailed painting of
a Bee Orchid and was second in another section
called animals in their environment with a
Mediterranean work featuring some Bee Eaters.
The winning prize for me is a trip to the
Brazilian Pantanal which I am so looking forward
to, especially the rich bird life and the star mammal
the Jaguar.  Robert Cook was one of my teachers on a course I attended
in the South of England many years ago and it was a great plearsure
eeting him again at the awards ceremony this past August.

To see Mr. Allen's art - Click Here

Robert Cook - September 2009

I have attached a pic of me with my latest win. The award is for winner of the professional category & Overall winner and Wildscape Wildlife artist of the year 2009 for Wildscape magazine. I am holding the trophy 'Wilf' the wolf, which I get to keep for the year.

Recently I was category winner for 'Animals in their Environment' as part of the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2009 competition. This was their first time the BBC have done such a competition, they have run a very well known Wildlife Photography competition, for many years.

To see Mr. Cook's art - Click Here

Ainsley McNeely - August 2009

I won Best of Fauna for a Kestrel in the Alabama Flora & Fauna Art Competition, The Gene Fussell Wildlife Oil painting award for a cougar and was inducted into the UMS-Wright Fine Arts Hall of Fame (the first painter to be inducted).

To see Ainsley's art - Click Here

Rod Lawrence - May 2009

I was accepted into the Society of Animal Artists as a Signature Member and I my work was chosen for their 49^th Annual Art and the Animal Exhibition. My work was also selected for the 2009 Bennington Center for the Arts show Art of the Animal Kingdom XIV in Bennington, VT.

I just returned from a three-week sailing trip to Bermuda (part of a four-man crew on a 36’ boat) where I did a little plein-air painting. I’m trying to catch up on the things that piled up while I was gone!

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Robert Leum - May 2009

Won the Wisconsin Waterfowl Stamp contest with his acrylic painting of a pair of American wigeons.

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Chris Vest - Apr. 2009

I'm the featured artist this year at the festival of the cranes http://www.friendsofthebosque.org/crane/ which is in november. hopefully about that time the ABC book will be out.

To see Chris' digitlal paintings - Click Here