Wildlife art in the twenty-first century has become a global race by artists to capture images in photographs, sculpture, in paint and in other media before the subject matter goes extinct. We artists are on a mission to record the species that are left for future generations of humans whose very burgeoning emergence as living beings is accelerating and guaranteeing those extinctions.

We have arrived at that point in human history where witnessing human environmental destruction is unavoidable on a daily basis. We are altering environments faster than most species can adapt with the exception of those we consider vermin. Our air has deteriorated to the point where it’s too contaminated for many species to live after inhaling the contaminants that permeate even the densest jungles.

Artists who have been depicting wildlife for any length of time soon become painfully aware of the dilemma and become environmental activists at some level almost without exception. They become crusaders because having an affinity for other species and an understanding of how essential they are for humanity itself to continue existence demands a response.

When you buy wildlife art, in a small way, you are directly contributing to the promotion of awareness of the need for habitat and species protection while humanity struggles for ways to come to grips with the undeniable reality that we have to find a way to limit and reduce the global human population or our descendants will be faced with a species die-off of unimagined proportioned magnitude due to environmental collapse in this century.

My wildlife paintings carry a much blunter message than those of other artists. The reason is that I care more about the message than I do about how comfortable the viewer is looking at the image. On the other hand, many of the messages are so complex that few people understand the details without a written explanation which I’m happy to supply. While genius is the art of making the complex simple, there is nothing at all simple about where to allocate the blame for the species by species decline of earth’s wildlife.

The solution though is very, very simple and just as painful: drastic human population reduction and the cessation of the use of crude oil and its derivatives. Do we have the courage to put the solution into practice or are we going to download the problem to our children who are completely unequipped to even begin to understand the nature of the problem?