An old friend called, a person with whom I had lost touch since college, and said:  “I had no idea.”

What are you talking about?

 “I had no idea of how large the community of wildlife art is—the artists, the collectors, the exhibitions;  there are even museums.  I didn't even know there was a 'wildlife art community, or that Wildlife Art Journal magazine even existed. I feel like my head has been in the sand.”

Wildlife art, I replied, is about more than wildlife, art, and/or wildlife art;  it’s an avenue for thinking about the natural world and our relationship with it.  Art can grow one's perspective. Neither do we approach “wildlife art” as its own genre within art;  rather, there is a vast range of genres inherent to wildlife art, limited only by our own curiosity and insistence on seeing it as only one thing.

There is a reason why North America has the largest number of artists exploring wildlife as subject matter in the world, along aspectrum that ranges from traditional to avant garde. 

The first obvious reason is that a huge diversity of animals, from birds to large quadrupeds exists wild on the North American landscape;  This is not to discount Africa but for a number of reasons it does not possess the same centrifugal presence with its artists.

The other reason for North America's profile is that people here have a huge appetite for wildlife motifs.  More people make their living as artists exploring wild nature as themes than anywhere else.  (By the way, we regard landscape painting as an extension of wildlife art and you’ll be seeing a lot more of it; photography and cinematography, too).

Other North American magazines make only token reference to wildlife art. Wildlife Art Journal is not only positioned in the middle of America's wildest corner of the Wild West, it is situated near the hubs of the wildlife art market.  It is your round-the-clock source for, as our motto implies, "the art of nature connecting the world". 

My friend’s comment—“I had no idea that a wildlife art community”—was in reference to merely our latest lineup of stories—one that you’ll find nowhere else.   The real question is:  Who isn't fond of wildlife art? In fact, the odds are that the majority of homes in the world have some form of wildlife art inside them.
 
Autumn is the start of the high season in this hemisphere for nature-related artists and collectors.  It opens with the Leigh Yawkey Woodson’s venerable Birds In Art , continues with the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s Western Visions Miniatures and More Show and Sale, and the Society of Animal Artist’s Art and the Animal exhibition, and includes auctions and gallery openings that lead, in turn, to a number of other impressive events America and Europe, Africa and Australasia that you’ll also be reading about here.   Read here about Zimbabwean David Filer's winning piece in the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation's Wildlife Artist of the Year competition .  And keep checking back for other stories.

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No other subject matter in the 21st century is more relevant to the state of the world than wildlife.  You cannot have a lasting rich life without having a healthy environment.  This isn't a declaration of ideology.  It's a statement of the most conservative values.  We invite you to become a Facebook friend by clicking here.   Please tell your friends about us.