Animal
This tag gathers artwork featuring animals as the main subject, wild, domestic, or somewhere in between, across painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. Capturing an animal well takes a different kind of observation than a human subject, since anatomy, fur, feathers, or scale each behave differently under light. Some pieces aim for careful realism, others use animals more symbolically or playfully. Use this tag to browse work built around the natural world’s other inhabitants, whether the artist is chasing anatomical accuracy or just capturing a bit of personality and charm.
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Joseph Farquharson
Joseph Farquharson was a Scottish landscape painter born in Edinburgh in 1846, celebrated for his snowy winter scenes of sheep grazing under soft, wintry light. He trained at the Royal Academy in London and stayed true to traditional realism throughout his career.
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John Lopez
John Lopez is a sculptor from South Dakota who transforms discarded farm machinery into dynamic metal sculptures celebrating ranching life near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. He started out sculpting in bronze before turning to rusted equipment, giving new life to tools from a fading way of life.
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Bonnie Marris
Bonnie Marris is an American wildlife artist who has studied and painted wolves, foxes, and horses since childhood, drawing on her studies in zoology and animal behavior. Inspired by her hero David Shepherd, she aims to capture the individual spirit of each animal she paints.
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Guido Daniele
Guido Daniele is an Italian artist born in Soverato in 1950 who graduated from the Brera School of Arts before studying traditional Tanka painting in Dharamsala, India. Based in Milan, he is best known for his Handimals, a body painting technique he developed in 1990 that transforms painted human hands into strikingly realistic animal illusions.
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Carol Gold
Carol Gold was an American sculptor born in Hartford, Connecticut, who grew up on a dairy farm in western Massachusetts and studied art at Cornell, Boston University, and Boston’s Museum School. After learning bronze casting at the College of Marin in the late 1970s, she built and ran her own foundry outside San Francisco for…
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Martin Pustelnik
Martin Pustelnik is a Czech photographer born in Ostrava in 1976 who bought his first digital SLR in 2005 and quickly fell into macro photography, especially dragonflies and insects. He prefers natural light and minimal editing, and beyond his nature work he also photographs flowers, landscapes, and people.
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Marion Tubiana
Marion Tubiana is a French pastellist and wildlife photographer born in 1990 who has drawn since the age of three alongside a lifelong love of animals. Self-taught and working purely by feeling, she builds her paintings around the eyes of her subjects, believing that the gaze is where real emotion comes through.
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Debra Sindt
Debra Sindt is a Colorado-based wildlife and western artist who grew up on an Iowa farm, where she spent her childhood observing animals and caring for orphaned lambs, foals, and other creatures. She returned to painting seriously after her family moved to Colorado in 2000, and her oil paintings are known for capturing the individual…
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Jay J. Johnson
Jay J. Johnson is an American wildlife painter who has spent much of his life hiking, paddling and camping across the country’s wild places, once walking 4,700 miles along the Appalachian and Pacific Crest Trails. He studied art and natural history at Cornell University and paints in oils on linen, drawing every scene from what…
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Teresa Elliott
Teresa Elliott is an American realist painter based in Alpine, Texas, whose family has farmed Angus cattle and pecan orchards in the state since the 1800s, a heritage that still shapes her art. She earned her BFA from the University of Kansas and worked for years as a graphic designer before a sold out 2006…
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Andrea Benvenuti
Andrea Benvenuti is an Italian nature photographer with an academic background in environmental science, a combination that shapes his deep understanding of the landscapes and wildlife he photographs. Based in Italy, he focuses on the natural beauty of Italy and Europe, and his images aim to raise awareness about conservation as much as to capture…
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Terry Gilecki
Terry Gilecki is a Canadian painter and commercial artist born in 1954, working professionally since 1973 across a wide range of mediums and techniques. He is best known for his koi fish paintings, built up through layers of texture medium and acrylic paint applied with airbrush, brush, and scratching techniques for a distinctive dimensional quality.…
