Animal Art Prints

How I paint the animals

I paint animals as portraits. The eyes come first, in several thin layers, and everything else is allowed to stay loose around them. Fur is mostly water and timing: the pigment goes onto damp paper and spreads on its own, and I stop it only where an edge matters. That is why a wolf here has a sharp gaze and a soft, bleeding outline. The collection covers the animals people ask for most, such as the otter, the red panda and the raccoon, next to ones I painted out of curiosity, like the binturong, the aardvark and the golden-crowned flying fox.

Edition, paper and sizes

Every print in this collection is part of a numbered edition of 150, signed by hand. When an edition sells out it is not printed again. You choose between archival pigment inks on museum-quality cotton paper and a framed canvas in a black wooden frame, in 15 sizes from 20 × 26 cm to 100 × 140 cm. I print and check each one in my studio and ship it flat or in a hard tube. If you are new to editions, my guide to limited edition prints explains what the numbers mean.

The same paintings in other forms

Some of these works are still available as original watercolor paintings, one of a kind. The designs also exist as wearable art: animal T-shirts, animal mugs and animal pillow covers.