The artist-led conversation started nearly 18 months ago, and since then it has leapfrogged a continent and ocean.  When we debuted Five Questions/Five Art Works as an inaugural element of Wildlife Art Journal, it was like releasing an idea to the wind, not knowing where it would be carried.

But now Five Questions/Five Art Works encompasses eight artists; it is getting ready to cross another nation-state divide bound for another country, Germany, the realm of painter Wolfgang Weber.

In the latest installment, Harriet Mead, the newly-elected president of the UK-based Society of Wildlife Artists, interviews UK painter Esther Tyson. The chain, however, stretches back westward to northern California where Susan Fox, the first artist, resides. 

All along, Five Questions/Five Art Works was intended to promote an artist-to-artist discussion with we readers serving as voyeurs, listening in.  Follow the connection:  Susan Fox -Andrew Denman -Julie T. Chapman -Simon Gudgeon -Jonathan Sainsbury -Sam MacDonald -Harriet Mead -Esther Tyson .

And when you're finished, read the new guest essay from Jim McNutt , president and CEO of the National Museum of Wildlife Art .  Not only does Jim discuss the role that museums play in educating kids, he alludes to an essay written by Max Anderson, CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art  that just opened a new art and nature park with revolving art installations.