Walton Ford

Another favorite artist of mine is Walton Ford. Snatched from Greg Cook’s blog is a review of WF’s latest work and recent exhibit in NY….. “Walton Ford of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary artists active in New England. He paints monumental watercolors that speak of the meeting of people and animals and how this interaction sets off chain-reactions of disaster. The vividly realistic paintings, with traces of faux aging, resemble 19th century natural history specimen sketches – particularly the work of John James Audubon – but they overturn that era’s sense of the superiority of man to animals, to nature….”  read more

Here are a few photos of WF’s beautiful beasts.

Nila

Madagascar

Thanh Hoang