Articles tagged with: art
I’m happy to announce I’ll be joining Bees in Art Gallery in the UK,
sister gallery to The Land Gallery, exhibiting artwork by leading artists
inspired by bees and other Hymenoptera.
Bees in Art is curated by Andrew Tyzack, graduate of The Royal College of Art,
London, UK and third generation beekeeper. Andrew runs several beehives and
paints in the East Riding of Yorkshire, UK.
More gallery information and my Bees In Art news announcement.
Here’s a tiny insect Olympian, small enough
to use a blade of grass to do chin-ups,
ghosts of other bees pass by in the background.
This little athlete also appears in my book featuring the world of bees, Bee Dreams.
A small reveler dances away the year,
whirling to a wild piper’s rhythm,
chasing the last hours into the
fading moon’s shadow.
Holiday greetings from Rick at Wild Light
I’ve done the cover art for an upcoming book
by best-selling writer Cory Doctorow.
Cory’s has a Publishers Weekly column about his unique project.
I’ll post more as Cory reveals all the details.
While out searching for fireflies, as the last light faded on a summer evening, I came across a small race past the moon.
I have a couple paintings in the “Targets and Trajectories” exhibition at the Cass Café in Detroit.
A cropped, work-safe image of one of the paintings, “Siren”, was reproduced in last weeks Mirror newspaper.
Aerial Acrobats is now available, in time for the holidays. Aerial Acrobats is my first collection, a 40 page hardcover book (7×7 inches with dustjacket) of some of my favorite images of birds in flight.
From the introduction by Kathe Koja:
Because they are so lovely, and seem so fragile – they *are* fragile – we tend to think of birds as delicate creatures, literally above the fray of the earthbound existence the rest of us live. But in these photographs, we can see the bird’s-eye view for what it is, and how tough and resilient these animals are, and have to be.
A preview of some of the page spreads:
A softcover edition is also available. More information and reviews here.
Sparrows and other small songbirds were scarce here for awhile, but it appears a gang of sparrows is back in force, along with some house finches.
Maybe I’ll have more luck with some lessons from Lesbia, as painted by Edward John Poynter.
Another Poynter, The Cave of the Storm Nymphs, from 1903.
I’ve been working on images of fireflies this summer, and I’ll post some soon. Right now the only ones I see are unlucky males, on a fruitless search for a mate.
Fireflies make a brief appearance in Hedgehog in the Fog, an excellent 1975 animation by the Russian artist Yuri Norstein.
