Connecting with People as a Nature Artist

“Ultimately, agape love should drive every successful creative endeavor; it must become the passion that surpasses all other passions. When you become immersed in a work assignment … but you lack love in your life - your creative aspirations will become out of balance,” Thomas Kinkade.

As a nature and wildlife artist, how can I connect with people that are no longer connected to the natural world? Can my art be meaningful to a world that grows ever more detached from nature? What is the value of my art to a world with ever shrinking unmolested landscapes that have not been touched by the world’s population explosion?

1.  I do my best to connect with a subject as I paint it in hopes of it being so beautifully simple that people can easily understand and appreciate the fine art I create. If I can depict the personality of an animal in the way I render its eyes, gesture, and shadows, I’m most successful.

2.  When I paint one of nature’s subjects, I discover so many wondrous things about the subject of interest. Finding a way with paint to focus my attention on a certain perspective of a subject brings my attention to interesting qualities often never considered before. Words cannot describe how an artist connects with a subject as they render its likeness on canvas.

Often I relive the experience that brought me to paint a certain subject when I look back on it later. It is this wonderful experience that I hope to share with people as mutual lovers of the natural world.

One of the greatest benefits of being an artist is sharing the magic I find exploring woodland trails and area farms: helping others to see the connection with nature that they can have. When others see my art they too have a chance to connect with the subjects I’ve bonded with through hours of study with my paint brush.

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