Bonnie Marris The Joy of Mud Giclee Canvas Smallworks Description *Artist: Bonnie Marris. NEW! PRE- RELEASE for Oct. 2008! Title: "The Joy of Mud". Shipping mid-to-late Oct. 2008! * Limited Edition "Canvas Giclee" signed and numbered by the artist. Limited to a very low edition size of only 125 images (on canvas) worldwide. Image size is 7" x 14". * Mint Condition! Brand new stock shipped directly from the publisher(Greenwich Workshop). We are an authorized dealer for Greenwich. *Be one of the few clients who can own this piece on canvas! Buyer gets FREE! shipping and insurance. Shipped flat for your best protection in transit. *This canvas comes already mounted on Museum quality stretcher bars, ready for framing. Thank you. Jim Duff~ Early River Gallery.My Stores Logo About the Artist: Bonnie Marris has taken an unusual path into art; she developed her talent by portraying animals “from the inside out.” While she was a student at Michigan State University, Bonnie illustrated several major books. One volume she worked on was a leading expert’s mammalogy text that contained several hundred drawings and detail studies. This massive project attracted the attention of noted zoologist George Schaller, who invited Bonnie to prepare the art for posters that would support his worldwide rare animal relief programs. Beyond academic training and emotional involvement, art requires another element for which there is no substitute: experience. Each year, Bonnie makes two major trips, and countless smaller ones, to observe and learn about the wildlife she loves. In 1980, one such voyage took her to Alaska, where she lived in the wilderness for six months. She recounts, “To get into a natural environment and see the animals on their own terms is as important as knowing the animals themselves. For instance, gray wolves on the tundra—the vast, vast tundra with the wind and other forces of nature at their most extreme—that’s what makes them what they are. To stand not far from a grizzly that is so overpowering, so beautiful and so large . . . to watch it pull up a small tree with a swipe of its paw and just a few minutes later see it delicately picking blueberries with its black lips. . . Alaska changed me; it gave me the biggest incentive to paint and increased my interest in the predators: the cats, bears, coyotes, wolves and foxes. They exist on so many levels. Their moods show in their eyes and we can learn so much from them.” *Please Note: This pre-release offering will be shipping mid-to-late Oct. 2008. or as soon as it arrives from the publisher, Greenwich Workshop. You can place your advanced orders here from this buy-it-now listing to reserve one for your collection. About Early River Gallery: Greetings from Vermont. We have been in business since 1977 offering Fine Art, Antiques,Period Victorian Lighting, Museum Quality Custom Picture Framing,Antique and Limited Edition prints.Also offering one of the most comperhensive selections of Fine Art Giclee Canvas and Lithographic prints on the web by major publishers such as The Greenwich Workshop, Hadley House Publishing,Mill Pond Press,Wild Apple Graphics and more...