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| Carl Brenders |
We are very excited to
announce that our popular Window on Wildlife calendar is back by popular demand
for 2015. The wall calendar will
feature extremely realistic images of wildlife depicted in their habitats
created by famous naturalist and painter Carl Brenders, internationally
acclaimed as one of the greatest Nature painters of all time.
Carl was born in 1937 near
Antwerp where he still lives with his wife, Paula. He started drawing at a very
early age and trained at the Fine Art Academy and later in Berchem and began
his career as an illustrator of children’s books on natural history. For long
revered and collected by admirers around the world, in September 2002 he was
deservedly honoured by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin, USA,
as their Master Wildlife Artist, describing it as ‘the high point of my
career’. He was also conferred the titles of Featured Artist and Guest Artist
from the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition in Charleston, SC, the National
Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, WY and Bennington Center for the Arts,
VT. Carl Brenders’ paintings are
present in prestigious permanent collections such as The Ford Collection in
Dearborn, MI and those of the Woodson Art Museum and the National Museum of
Wildlife Art. In 1998 he was inducted
into the U.S. Art Hall of Fame.
Outside the United States, his paintings received a lot of attention at
major art auctions such as Christie’s, UK, Bonham’s in Singapore and Mondiale,
LTD in Hong Kong. The high point
of Carl’s career was a retrospective exhibition of 30 of his works entitled
“Artistry in Nature: The Wildlife Paintings of Carl Brenders” which opened in
1997 at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History before traveling to the
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland OH, the Bernheim Museum &
Arboretum in Louisville, KY and the Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, LA.
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| 2015 Window on Wildlife Wall Calendar |
Carl’s process includes
taking countless photos of the animal and its habitat, taking great care to
document all of the elements that will set the stage for his subject such as
the vegetation at a particular time of year, the light, the relief of the
landscape, the shape and colour of the rocks. Only then will Carl let his
imagination kick in by drawing a few sketches. His vision finally materializes
in a detailed pencil drawing which he then projects to his illustration board
making adjustments to his composition before applying colour. His paintings are
typically created on illustration board and is executed in a mixed-media
combination of watercolour and gouache.
On the left is a sneak peak of
Carl's 2015 Wall Calendar, Window on Wildlife. Are you excited yet?