Since the mid-2000s, in a series I titled No One’s Ark, I have been making portraits of endangered species. To emphasize the uniqueness of the animals, my challenge has been to vary the media and treatment in every portrait. Thus far, my treatments include: pencil, charcoal, ink, pastel, collage, watercolor, acrylic on paper and canvas, scratchboard, screen print, embroidery, digital prints, and several combinations of these, often incorporating specialty and handmade papers.
Goodbye
Small drawings in acrylic boxes containing magnets that allow them to be repositioned on a metal plate
Grevy's Zebra, 2018
Screen print on rice paper, collaged on patterned paper
Northern River Terrapin, 2019
Acrylic, pastel & sand on canvas
Echidna Puggle, 2019
Ink on paper, collaged with wood & gold papers
Dama Gazelles, 2019
Charcoal & pastel collaged on vintage wallpaper
Condor, 2017
Embroidery on velvet
Bengal Tiger, 2019
Ink drawing with translucent textured paper overlay
Przewalski's Horses, 2020
iridescent pastel on rice paper, mounted on colored papers
Pangolin, 2019
Artificial petals and fingernails, with rice paper overlay
Orangutan, 2020
Deliberately unattractive image, meant to counter the sentimentality associated with Orangutan rescue sites