SUBMISSION: Stryker © 2022 Garry Kravit

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Two things in life, helping others and creating something beautiful.

SUBMISSION: The Misguided Coyote © 2022 Vivian Cavalieri

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I create a unified whole from seemingly unrelated components, achieving balance through intricate juxtapositions of color, form and texture. With a sense of color and whimsy reflecting my Venetian background, I spent many years designing opulent torsades. I now incorporate segments of those necklaces in surrealistic sculptures with themes varying from purely decorative to conceptual, addressing topics such as shrinking polar ice, light pollution and social inequity.

Each is one-of-a-kind and custom framed with its solid, decorative frame curving outward to draw in the viewer. I use museum glass to preserve the color intensity and intimacy by creating the illusion that the viewer is present at the scene.

Elements include fine dollhouse miniatures, realistic animal models, richly textured fabrics, found objects, acrylic paint, wood, paper, ribbon, artboard and digitally manipulated photographs.

SUBMISSION: Nature vs Art - The Painted Peacock © 2022 Vivian Cavalieri

ENDANGERED: Fine Art & Photography Contest 2022 Submission

I create a unified whole from seemingly unrelated components, achieving balance through intricate juxtapositions of color, form and texture. With a sense of color and whimsy reflecting my Venetian background, I spent many years designing opulent torsades. I now incorporate segments of those necklaces in surrealistic sculptures with themes varying from purely decorative to conceptual, addressing topics such as shrinking polar ice, light pollution and social inequity.

Each is one-of-a-kind and custom framed with its solid, decorative frame curving outward to draw in the viewer. I use museum glass to preserve the color intensity and intimacy by creating the illusion that the viewer is present at the scene.

Elements include fine dollhouse miniatures, realistic animal models, richly textured fabrics, found objects, acrylic paint, wood, paper, ribbon, artboard and digitally manipulated photographs.

SUBMISSION: SOS © 2022 Vivian Cavalieri

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I create a unified whole from seemingly unrelated components, achieving balance through intricate juxtapositions of color, form and texture. With a sense of color and whimsy reflecting my Venetian background, I spent many years designing opulent torsades. I now incorporate segments of those necklaces in surrealistic sculptures with themes varying from purely decorative to conceptual, addressing topics such as shrinking polar ice, light pollution and social inequity.

Each is one-of-a-kind and custom framed with its solid, decorative frame curving outward to draw in the viewer. I use museum glass to preserve the color intensity and intimacy by creating the illusion that the viewer is present at the scene.

Elements include fine dollhouse miniatures, realistic animal models, richly textured fabrics, found objects, acrylic paint, wood, paper, ribbon, artboard and digitally manipulated photographs.

SUBMISSION: Leap of Faith © 2022 Suzie Seerey-Lester

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I love painting wildlife. I spend quite a bit of time in the wild photographing and painting the animals and birds that I see. I will only paint the animals that I have seen in their natural habitat. I love moody and mysterious images.

SUBMISSION: Staycation © 2022 Vivian Cavalieri

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I create a unified whole from seemingly unrelated components, achieving balance through intricate juxtapositions of color, form, and texture. With a sense of color and whimsy reflecting my Venetian background, I spent many years designing opulent torsades. I now incorporate segments of those necklaces in surrealistic sculptures with themes varying from purely decorative to conceptual, addressing topics such as shrinking polar ice, light pollution, and social inequity.

Each is one-of-a-kind and custom framed with its solid, decorative frame curving outward to draw in the viewer. I use museum glass to preserve the color intensity and intimacy by creating the illusion that the viewer is present at the scene.

Elements include fine dollhouse miniatures, realistic animal models, richly textured fabrics, found objects, acrylic paint, wood, paper, ribbon, artboard, and digitally manipulated photographs.

SUBMISSION: Here's Looking at You © 2022 Caryn Coville

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My work is inspired by nature, my travels, and the beauty I find in everyday objects.

I took the reference photos for my drawing on the island of Hafnarho, Iceland where a small colony of puffins makes the island their summer home. They were so much fun to watch, we went back a second day. I enjoyed drawing this puffin and hope to bring awareness as to how overfishing, hunting, pollution and climate change are affecting them.

My drawing was created using two pieces of drafting film. The puffin was drawn with colored pencils, using both sides of one sheet and the background was done on a second sheet using pan pastels. The two sheets were then layered together.

Primarily a colored pencil artist, I also enjoy East Asian brush painting and alcohol ink painting.

I am a five-year 'CPX' Signature Member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, an Elected Member of the American Artists Professional League, and a Juried Member of the National Art League.

SUBMISSION: Origin Story (Galapagos) © 2022 Michael Poetcha

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Many of the creatures found on the Galapagos islands formed from the shape of the cold lava the islands are made of.

SUBMISSION: Cross River Gorilla in Ark © 2022 Diana Stetson

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This image is one in the series Poetic Arks - putting the most critically endangered animals into arks to save them from extinction.

I paint because I am in love with this Earth.

I write poetry when it is too dark to paint.

Paintings and poetry become intimate with each other.

And together they tell the Stories that come from mythic memory and a childhood spent in the woods.

SUBMISSION: African Sunset © 2022 Donald White

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Oil painting can be forgiving at times to correct small issues, with that said it is less forgiving when applying a glaze over an already painted area. Patience must be learned to allow the already Painted area to be completely dry. As time has pasted, I have learned that it takes time to make a great piece of Art.

Inspired by the Baroque Style and painters like Caravaggio which highlights light and dark shadows on his subjects. I have chosen to use that style in all my paintings going forward.

SUBMISSION: Cool In The Shade © 2022 Jeanne Cardana

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Horses, wildlife, and the love of the natural world have been my inspiration and at the forefront of my artwork. I strive to capture the essence and personality of the animals I portray and to ‘tell their story’ visually. I have owned and worked with horses all my life and they are likely, my most favored animal subject. For horses and other animals (humans included!) it is important to me to get the details, anatomy, and movements correct. Once I have my subject(s) in mind, the composition and storytelling come together in a way that support the piece’s harmony I wish to capture.

SUBMISSION: I Remember! © 2022 Gaye Pereira-Jackson

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Gaye Pereira-Jackson (Boltong) is a self confessed travelling addict and self taught artist. Her first travel adventure was an overland trip to Asia, Europe, and Africa where she covered thousands of kilometres, sixty four countries, took hundreds of photographs and returned with armfuls of exciting memories!

Gaye enjoyed her painting holidays in Spain, Tuscany and France which taught her the basics of using various art media to translate her feelings onto canvas and paper. After 27 years as an expat, Gaye retired and returned to Melbourne to a spend time with her grandchildren, her garden, her art and the luxury of doing as she pleases!

She has won numerous prizes and has had 4 solo art exhibitions. She spends a lot of time in Bali as she considers that her spiritual home and the place to re-vitalise her inner soul and creative spirit. Gaye enjoys experimenting with various media and topics to broaden her skills and paints to please herself and hopefully others too!

SUBMISSION: Coming or Going © 2022 Cyndy Beardsley

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Seeing wildlife in their natural habitat makes me fall more in love with the continents that support them and appreciate the symbiotic relationships of everything. It takes me back to my spiritual belief that we are all one.

Connecting with nature is profoundly moving; like visiting a part of my soul I didn’t know was there. The landscape, the people, the animals, the culture and the history, everything is so far removed from my everyday life. Africa makes me feel the rawness of life – it is so alive.

I like to remove my animals from their familiar environment so that the viewer can relate to them directly without any preconceptions that a background might express. My hope is that my paintings are a reminder of nature’s endless diversity and our interconnection with all creatures, big and small. As such, my wish is that my paintings are a reminder of our responsibility to protect these beautiful creatures so generations forward can appreciate them as much as I do.

SUBMISSION: Henry © 2022 Cyndy Beardsley

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Seeing wildlife in their natural habitat makes me fall more in love with the continents that support them and appreciate the symbiotic relationships of everything. It takes me back to my spiritual belief that we are all one.

Connecting with nature is profoundly moving; like visiting a part of my soul I didn’t know was there. The landscape, the people, the animals, the culture and the history, everything is so far removed from my everyday life. Africa makes me feel the rawness of life – it is so alive.

I like to remove my animals from their familiar environment so that the viewer can relate to them directly without any preconceptions that a background might express. My hope is that my paintings are a reminder of nature’s endless diversity and our interconnection with all creatures, big and small. As such, my wish is that my paintings are a reminder of our responsibility to protect these beautiful creatures so generations forward can appreciate them as much as I do.

SUBMISSION: Mother and Child © 2022 Cyndy Beardsley

ENDANGERED: Fine Art & Photography Contest 2022 Submission

Seeing wildlife in their natural habitat makes me fall more in love with the continents that support them and appreciate the symbiotic relationships of everything. It takes me back to my spiritual belief that we are all one.

Connecting with nature is profoundly moving; like visiting a part of my soul I didn’t know was there. The landscape, the people, the animals, the culture and the history, everything is so far removed from my everyday life. Africa makes me feel the rawness of life – it is so alive.

I like to remove my animals from their familiar environment so that the viewer can relate to them directly without any preconceptions that a background might express. My hope is that my paintings are a reminder of nature’s endless diversity and our interconnection with all creatures, big and small. As such, my wish is that my paintings are a reminder of our responsibility to protect these beautiful creatures so generations forward can appreciate them as much as I do.

SUBMISSION: Geoldi's Monkey © 2022 Cindy Sorley-Keichinger

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A tiny little monkey whose fur looks like a toddler cut it's fur with paper scissors.

SUBMISSION: Net Results © 2022 Thomas Griffithe

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Digital graphic image of a whale caught in net that captures the nuance and emotion of endangerment.

SUBMISSION: Day At the Beach, Now and Then © 2021 Susan Hillary

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Susan Hillary, is a multi-talented painter, farmer, filmmaker and environmental advocate. Her paintings express energy and motion. Reflections about space and light are essential to her work.

Her art elicits a visceral reaction to the degradation of our environment, bringing attention to mankind’s destruction of our natural resources while celebrating the beauty of our planet; a subject she is passionate about both in her art and in her environmental advocacy.

Susan is a self-taught painter who started painting in the 1980’s on the glass windows found on the streets of NYC. Her work is included in the Gertrude Stein and Devorzan Collections.

SUBMISSION: Wild © 2021 C Sutherland

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Catherine creates with the freedom nature inspires in her. Her paintings will connect you with love for the ocean and wildlife.

SUBMISSION: Think Twice, Advance Once © 2021 Patsy Lindamood

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The comeback of the American Bald Eagle is a conservation success story. But this accomplishment was not based in luck, but forged from the combined efforts of teams of people collecting and analyzing decades' worth of science. Think Twice, Advance Once is the latest in a series of Bald Eagles I have painted and drawn over the last decade. The Bald is majestic, striking, and has this almost human-like demeanor.