Biome Cover Artists

Venezuelan artist Alonzo Morales Bravo has mastered the art of photorealistic painting, capturing the lush, verdant beauty of rainforests through his stunning oil paintings.

Leon R. van der Linden studied biology at the State University of Utrecht, but in 1990 he decided to be a fulltime wildlife artist.  Léon’s realistic painting style captures the natural world with a passionate, elegant and respectful look, and encourages the viewer to closely observe the natural world. His favourite subjects are birds of prey, owls, hornbills, parrots and birds of paradise.  He lives in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Michael DiGiorgio is a nationally recognized artist who has traveled throughout United States, the West Indies and South America to sketch and paint birds and plant life.  He won the first ever endowment award from the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia in recognition of his Bird Illustration work.  He is currently illustrating plates for a new guide to Brazil with Robert Ridgley and Guy Tudor, as well as the Hawaiian bird entries for the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America.  Mike lives in Madison, CT.

Candy has been honing her art and photography skills for years.  As a Signature member of the Artists for Conservation and member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, she tries to channel her artistic talent to inspire others to appreciate wildlife.  Candy lives in Union, Ontario (near Port Stanley) and is an avid observer of nature at home and internationally.

Eric van der Aa has been fascinated by nature—birds in particular–since he was seven.   His studies in landscape architecture at Wageningen University required watercolours which led him back to birds.  Watercolour was ideal for fast recording of impressions and images and forced him to watch accurately and divide essentials from nonessentials quickly.  Some of these paintings have been purchased by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausa, Wisconsin.  Eric lives in Gouda, The Netherlands.

Larry McQueen grew up in the small town of Mifflinburg in central Pennsylvania.  Birds fascinated him from the start.  In his youth he was inspired by artists John James Audubon and Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and later by the great Swedish wildlife artist Bruno Liljefors.  He developed a career painting birds and by the 1980s, his work appeared regularly in National Audubon publications and he began art work for The Birds of Peru.  Larry and his wife live in Eugene, Oregon.