Living and working at the edge of Yellowstone National Park I HAVE to paint wildlife. It’s all around me. I consider myself very fortunate to live so intimately with nature and have the experience of interacting with wildlife on a daily basis. Elk in the yard, deer sleeping on the deck, a big horn sheep ‘horn butting’ the window, a bobcat in the tree, bison herds swimming across the river onto our property, wolves taking down a pronghorn, watching eagles and osprey fishing in the Yellowstone River, pronghorn giving birth to twins right out the windows…. Where I live is a very special place and I want to honor that in my work. I paint my experiences with wildlife – from awe inspiring to ordinary – but they all touch a chord deep within me.  And as with my landscape painting, I often find metaphors in the back stages of my wildlife paintings as I observe and delve deeper.