Colorado - Animal Paintings

Ifeoluwa Alade ( Nigeria based) "Grow with Me II" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts flowers and butterflies with a heavily textured tan background. Artist bio:...

Aaron Li-Hill's "Crossing" is an original, handmade acrylic and aerosol painting that depicts a stylized monochrome Owl in flight. About the Artist: Li-Hill is a Canadian visual artist currently based out of Brooklyn, who employs painting, illustration, stenciling, and sculptural elements within his works. With a background in graffiti and mural painting and a degree in Fine Arts, his works range from smaller multiples to enormous murals...

Alla Bartoshchuk's "Paper City" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a blue hued female figure in the company of ghostly greyhounds with an orange sun appearing alongsi...

Claudia Griesbach- Martucci's "Pink Dreams" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a mallard duck with a blue bow as beautiful sunset col...

Ifeoluwa Alade's "Bond III" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts two koi fish swimming beneath the surface of a tile pattern blue pond with grey rocks jutting throu...

Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...

Marc Etherington’s works take pop culture, childhood memories and everyday domestic life as their subject matter, rendering them through a darkly humorous and sometimes absurd lens. ...

Robin Hextrum's "Profile of a Bull" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a black bull in profile with blue and gray Rococo patterns in the background.

Robin Hextrum's (US based) "A Bull Spins in Time" is an oil painting that depicts a lone Bull charging into the abstracted field with a bright yellow background and colored clouds fl...

Nathan Durfee's "Diane in the Purr" is an oil painting that depicts Diane, a girl with a cat nose and whiskers drawn on her face, surrounded by stuffed animals. Artist bio: Natha...

Ali Ghassan's "Agelada" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a orange cow with yellow ear tags licking its nose with green and blue graffiti ...

Kaitlin Ziesmer's (US based) "Purdy" is an original, handmade AcrylaGouache painting that depicts a pink and black bird in profile wearing a levitating...

Sybiline's (CAN based) "Afternoon Delight" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a Sphynx cat eyeing a pink teacup with milk and plate with a w...

Josh Talbott's (US based) "Who's Driving This Thing" is an acrylic painting that depicts yellow scorpion appendages with the body of a black car having been released from a glass jar. Bio: Josh Talbott grew up in suburban/rural Georgia in the southern US. His first work as a professional artist was in scenic painting and murals for various production companies. An attempt to deepen his well of possibilities led to New Orleans where as a street artist he sold works to people from all over the world before loosing everything in hurricane Katrina. With short stints in Santa Fe and then Los Angeles Josh arrived in the small coastal city of Los Osos, California where he lives and works today. His curiosity is voracious and interests are many, including scuba/ free diving, sailing, surfing, gardening, geology, rock hounding, rationality, AI, history, and philosophy. In his studio there is always an audiobook on, and outside of the studio there are all manner of activities making there way into his work. He has many private collectors scattered across the globe and murals in San Francisco. ARTIST STATEMENT We live in a time of extreme and accelerated change, growing complexity, and specialization. At every stage in our human trajectory from primitive beginnings crawling out of the sea to the present gauntlet of challenges, our thinking tools and their uses are central to the story of what it means to be human. My work is informed by a fascination with thinking tools and the effects of programming and environment through the different phases of life and our capacity for storytelling. My practice consists of constructing small-scale still life scenarios of toys and other artifacts of human development, then creating photorealistic acrylic paintings of these scenes. The work juxtaposes the familiar and playful with a contemporary, complex, adult world. While I am interested in the science of the mind, and what it means to be a human, my work seldom features the human form, focusing instead on the objects and items that are frequently left behind. As such, the subject of the painting becomes the viewer him or herself because their own humanity is ultimately what is revealed. My work honors toys as thinking tools for small people and the scenes depicted explore the ways in which the culture of our formative years leaves a lasting mark and continues to shape our storytelling. The plastic artifacts of my formative years carry memories of simultaneous confusion and wonder at the world around me. These are sensations and emotions still very much present in my life. What were your imaginings and dramas when you played with toys? Are you living them today? The multileveled still life paintings of familiar toys are bright and accessible and connect to the viewer's nostalgia and playfulness while provoking deeper insights into our current evolutionary, cultural, and technological moment. I place each little curio with care into meaningful relationship to their interlocutors and environment. The plastic dinosaurs often depicted are emblematic of childhood curiosities, of great wonder and speculation at past worlds and the depth of evolutionary time, and yet they are made of a material that illustrates our shortsightedness, a quintessential human quality that makes it quite possible that these plastic creations will outlast us all. I do my best to draw inspiration and resources from everywhere to build a visual language. In my divergent path I find the musical compositions and the story of composer, Philip Glass inspiring. The story of his devotion to his craft and his subsequent successes have encouraged and inspired me. I'm influenced by writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Sapolsky, and Yuval Noah Harari, the many books by Simon Winchester, Daniel Dennet, Robert Wright...

Patrick Maxcy's "Borrowed Time" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts an antelope with blue ribbons and butterflies swirling around its ...

Sybiline's "Looking for the Kitty" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a surreal still life of a blue eye on a red apple as it floats on a cloud shaped like a white ca...

Bernard Lee's (US based) "Speak" is an oil painting that depicts a figure with a yellow background and doves flying past them Artist Bio/statement: Berna...

Robin Hextrum's (US based) "Red Storm" is an oil painting that depicts a lone horse rearing up while white birds flee and scatter. Artist Bio: Robin Hextrum is a contemporary oil p...

Robin Hextrum's (US based) "Colonial Dinner" is a monochromatic oil painting that depicts giraffes and landscape with a dining table set together Artist Bio: Robin Hextrum is a cont...

Robin Hextrum's (US based) "Behind the Curtain" is a monochromatic oil painting that depicts a koala perched on a branch besides a pulled back curta...

Robin Hextrum's "Pearl Galloping" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a white horse in a full run as the background spirals with black and blue Rococo...

Watchful Eyes

"To Taste" is an original oil painting by Kelly Houghton.

Aaron Li-Hill's "Exposed" is an original, handmade acrylic and aerosol painting that depicts a stylized monochrome Deer Buck with antlers turning to look over its shoulder. About the Artist: Li-Hill is a Canadian visual artist currently based out of Brooklyn, who employs painting, illustration, stenciling, and sculptural elements within his works. With a background in graffiti and mural painting and a degree in Fine Arts, his works range from smaller multiples to enormous murals...

Sybiline's (CAN based) "Lady in Black" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a black cat with green eyes wearing a black veil and blue pearl...

Che Leviathan (US based) "Spectre" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a white horse in profile, with thick grey mane, as it emerges from ...

Kaitlin Ziesmer's (US based) "Sam" is an original, handmade AcrylaGouache painting that depicts a pink and green woodpecker wearing a black frilly coll...

Kierstin Young's (US based) "Tierra" is an acrylic and oil painting depicting a Comet Moth and it's yellow and red designs Artist Statement/Bio: (b. The Year of the Rabbit) Kierstin's life began by almost never beginning at all. A car accident occurred while Kierstin’s mother was pregnant with her. The doctors advised against continuing the pregnancy for fear that Kierstin would be born without limbs or even blind. Her parents decided against it, and Kierstin was born a healthy child. This story was relayed to her as a child as a reminder of how serendipitous her life was. Kierstin was always filled with an overflowing energy and creativity. This led her on many diverse paths in life. Her many areas of focus included psychology, poetry, photography, mountaineering, religious studies, music, playing ice hockey, spelunking and pretending to be an astronaut. She grew up between two places; the first was a house built on Native American burial grounds in rural New Jersey. The second was a summer home in the beautiful Adirondack Mountains of New York. For the first sixteen years of her life, she was home taught by an assortment of sane and insane people. Her junior year she began the strange new adventure of going to school. She was most likely the only 16 year old in the world to be that ecstatic about riding a school bus, because it was for the first time in her life. It was there in public school, that her art teachers really encouraged her to pursue her love of art. Hopes were high for going to art school, but Kierstin found herself forbidden from even applying by her parents. She applied anyway. Upon getting rejected from prestigious art schools such as RISD and Parsons, Kierstin decided to attend duCret school of Art. Being rejected turned out to be a serendipitous turn of events for Kierstin once again. It was there at duCret that she met Timothy Jahn and began studying in his Academy duCret and subsequently Jahn Studios. This lead her to continue her education at the Ani Art Academy under the direction of Anthony Waichulis.

Bird perched on bowl of bones

Bucking horse with Rider

Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...

Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...

Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...

Delton Demarest's "Mallards with Purge" (2024) is an original oil painting depicting two ducks swimming in an abstracted landscape. Delton Demarest has been working in the freelance...

This large original modern figurative painting of a Toucan is a boldly vivid work of expressionist art. The original large-scale digital painting, dye-sublimated onto aluminum by Col...

This mesmerizing contemporary expressionist painting by Utah-based artist Sharron Evans features oil and genuine gold leaf on birch panel, framed in a custom gold leaf frame. Rendere...

Derek Penix's (US based) "Penguins" is an oil painting that depicts a huddle of penguins flocking gently together at water's edge. Bio/Artist Statement: Derek Penix was born on December 29, 1980 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Growing up Penix was surrounded by artists in his family as his mother and grandfather painted. Penix did not pursue painting until after graduating high school. Penix’s mother encouraged him to pursue his talent and took his paintings down to a local gallery where he sold his first piece. Through the years Penix has been inspired by old masters such as Nicolai Fechin, Sargent and the French Impressionists, but it has been over the last few years that Penix has been the most influenced by artist Quang Ho. Penix had the opportunity to take a workshop under Mr. Ho and later to study briefly with him. Since then, Penix believes his paintings have grown more in the last two years than in his last ten years of painting. As an artist Penix gains inspiration from his environment whether that be at the park, in his home, or traveling abroad. He enjoys the freedom to paint different subject matter and has learned to push himself to try new things, even if they are out of his comfort zone. Penix was recognized in South West Art...

This captivating untitled abstract oil on canvas by renowned mid-century artist Henriette “Yetti” Stolz vividly portrays an abstract bird in rich, earthy hues of brown, green, and or...

Original acrylic painting by artist Greg Ragland. Gallery wrapped canvas.

This original vintage watercolor painting by celebrated American artist Alfred Wands (1904–1998) presents a dynamic and atmospheric modernist depiction of a horse-drawn carriage set ...

This acrylic painting, titled "Great Feast," is an original creation by Ifeoluwa Alade, an artist based in Nigeria. The handmade piece showcases a man holding three yellow birds juxt...

Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...

Mia Bergeron's (US based) "Pagan" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a brightly lit pool in a dark landscape with turquoise-colored birds flying around. Mia Bergero...

Zoa Ace's (US based) "Smarter Than You Think" is an original, handmade oil painting depicting a yellow and orange cat in an interior setting. The piece is on gallery wrapped stretche...

Dana Hawk (NY, US based) "Undying Resolve in a Sure Loss" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female model with red hair surrounded by birds. The piece is framed and...

Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...

Mikael Olson's (US based) "German Pasture" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts several black cows on a verdant hill. Born in Denver in 1973, Mikael Olson has been pa...

Marcos Lucero was born in Oaxaca, Mexico and currently lives in Teotitlan Del Valle, a small community located 40 minutes from the city. His artistic education was at the Fine Arts S...

Hunt Slonem's artistic trajectory has always been characterized by a deep exploration of spiritual themes. His use of repetition in form—particularly with his beloved bunnies—serves ...

Hunt Slonem's artistic trajectory has always been characterized by a deep exploration of spiritual themes. His use of repetition in form—particularly with his beloved bunnies—serves ...

Shelli Langdale's "Rain King" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a feminine figure holding a small white horse with bright colored flowers in the background. Artist...

Ifeoluwa Alade ( Nigeria based) "Grow with Me I" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts flowers and butterflies with a heavily textured pink background. Artist bio:...

Dana Hawk's "Waterspout - Webber's Reward" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a brown spider inching along a branch of blooming white flowers...

Barbara Hack's "Bird Rest" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a realistic yellow bird perching on branch with a light glow around its form.

Koza, 2019

Exploring the Wild, 2020

Introducing "Together" by Sybiline, an unframed but ready-to-hang original handmade oil painting. This captivating artwork features two Meerkats on a rock, set against the backdrop o...

Nightjar, 2019

Josh Talbott's (US based) "Walter's New Pet" is an acrylic painting that depicts a small orange haired doll toy, Walter presumably, with a large blue toy ...

Shell Langdale's (US based) "Broken Christmas" is an oil painting that depicts a white horse figurine on its side with a vivid red and green background. Currently residing in Chatta...