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Sumatran Orangutan, July 2021

on June 05, 2024

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Conasauga Riverbed, Aug. 2025

The Conasauga River that runs in southeast Tennessee and northwest Georgia is one of the most biologically diverse rivers in North America. This short river contains more species of fish than the entire Columbia and Colorado River watersheds of the western US have combined. I have had the opportunity numerous times to snorkel in the clear headwaters of this river and see the spectacular fish and other wildlife in this river, an experience not many people in our region have enjoyed. I wanted to capture the beauty of this underwater scene and some of its inhabitants but also the rocky river bottom. The diversity of the aquatic life of the river is largely a result of the river's headwaters being located in the protected Cherokee National Forest, unlike most rivers in the region where human activities cause excessive sediment which limits the diversity of aquatic insects and the food chain relying on them. https://www.fs.usda.gov/r08/cherokee/recreation/conasauga-river-blue-hole

Ibis Departure, April 2025

This painting is based on a series of photos of American White Ibises flying away from a large tree in the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge in January 2025. I really liked the various graceful poses of different birds in flight as well as the birds sitting in the tree, so I decided to combine all of those elements into one page large enough to show it all. On a sheet of 22" X 30", this is the largest painting I've done to date, and it was a time-consuming challenge to plan and execute it all. One of my sisters said it reminds her of a group of angels flying to heaven.

Swamp King, Feb. 2025

Another subject from my favorite place in Georgia, the Okefenokee Swamp.

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Sumatran Orangutan, July 2021

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