"Hunting the Shallows" 30"x40" acrylic on panel ~ From a Private Collection

"Hunting The Shallows" was exhibited in the 2023 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum's "Birds in Art" exhibition in Wausau, Wisconsin from September 9 through November 26, 2023. 

“Egrets, sudden and breathtaking, spiritual tones of white, so pristine and so hallowed. If there is a purity of line and form and elegance in nature Great Egrets most certainly have attained it. I’m always quite taken by the inexhaustible visual poetry of these great birds. Whether in their languid aerial flight or coursing the water lilies and duckweed, they are the embodiment of grace and fluid line. And that duck weed, indeed the great historian. Ever recording the travels of geese, of wigeon and teal, of turtles and skittering frogs in their broken trails across the water’s living surface. Beaver and muskrats carving out the bigger channels liberating swimming rafts of mosses and lilies spilling across the shallows in a free flowing dance. Channels of opportunistic openings in the aquatic canopy for fishing egrets, unwavering and statuesque in their cast iron patience yet somehow liquid as the very waters they hunt”.

Exhibited in the 2014 Society of Animal Artists "Art and the Animal" exhibition

Exhibited in the 2004 Society of Animal Artists "Art and the Animal" exhibition.

Awarded the highest honors at the 2006 Kentucky National Wildlife Exhibition 

~From a Private Collection~

Awarded second highest honors at the 2000 Kentucky National Wildlife Exhibition.

Awarded the Elliot Liskin Memorial Award for representational painting in the 2001 Society of Animal Artists "Art and the Animal" exhibition and national tour.

~From a Private Collection~

Awarded highest honors at the 1998 Kentucky National Wildlife Exhibition