 AFC Best of Show Award Winner
 Medal of Excellence |
Casey Banwell 
"Protection" (Bronze)
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AFC Best of Show Award Winner
Medal of Excellence |
Bruce Lawes 
"In Plain Sight" (Oil)
“Without the individual and corporate efforts today, we may not be able to preserve and enjoy all we cherish with our children tomorrow”.
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Environmental Statement Award |
Harro Maass 
"Rainforest Visit" (Acrylic)
WILDLIFE ART November/December 1999: "We thought we had struck gold when a package of Harro Maass' transparancies arrived from Germany ..... He paints a wonderful variety of animal subjects - some in their natural habitats, some portrait style and other illustration-like. With such versatility, we believe you will see his name again."
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Best Interpretive / Abstract Honorable Mention Award Winner |
Martin Hayward-Harris
"FLYING FALCON" (Wood)
My overriding passion is form.Working in all media to create art that has fluidity and purity of line. I am fascinated by primitive visceral interpretations of the natural world and man’s relationship with nature in the modern day. My influences from ancient civilization have led me to abstract and invent new ideas that include the viewer on subjects of vulnerability, freedom and relationships. Through new discoveries of artistic methods, I have begun working in materials such as copper and...
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Medal of Excellence |
John Banovich 
"Into the Papyrus" (Oil)
"There is a simplicity to nature, an honest truth. Its residents are complete, moving in a harmony and balance we will never understand."
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Medal of Excellence |
Bruce Lawes
"Pair of Kings" (Oil)
“Without the individual and corporate efforts today, we may not be able to preserve and enjoy all we cherish with our children tomorrow”.
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Medal of Excellence |
Douglass Lockyer 
"Roy, the Ol Pejeta Chimpanzee" (Watercolor)
I'm a Kiwi (New Zealand born and raised) who has lived in Sydney, Australia for seven years, then New York for twenty and have recently returned to New York from Nairobi, Kenya, where I lived, on and off, for seven years. I paint watercolor and mixed media bird nad wildlife art, focusing on birds and mammals from New Zealand, Australia and recently, Kenya. I donate typically around 50% of each wildlife painting proceeds to one of several Kenyan wildlife conservancies or trusts.
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Medal of Excellence |
Gordon Pembridge
"Dappled Respite" (Oil)
To educate and show the beauty of natural history and environments through fine art. To help conserve threatened wildlife by showcasing its beauty with the hope of creating a love for it through my art work.
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Pollyanna Pickering Award Honorable Mention Award Winner |
Carrie Cook
"Bam Bam" (Oil)
I'm a portrait artist, working to capture the individual and find his or her story. By setting ourselves so far apart from other animals, we lose our connection to them and the rest of the planet in the process.
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Best Landscape Award |
Karel Doruyter
"Passage" (Acrylic)
Through my travels I have always been drawn to isolated places. In the past these were physical geographical parts of the world I have experienced. Now I find myself going inward, areas of spiritual and emotional isolation that I find disturbing and facinating. I find recording the former on board or canvas much easier than the latter, but that adds to the attraction.
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Honorable Mention Award Winner |
Ilse de Villiers 
""On patrol"" (Acrylic)
Animals have always been my passion & living in South Africa, it would be natural to want to despict our wonderful animals in their natural environment. I am extremely fortunate & blessed to bring these animals alive on canvas with my paints & brushes.
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Honorable Mention Award Winner |
Garry Fleming 
"Mr Gang Gang" (Oil)
Garry Fleming is one of the world's most published wildlife artist's, with more than 150 book titles published in over 60 languages. He has multiple awards to his name including the RAS birds and wildflowers art prize 3 times, and both Wilderness and Zoological awards for wildlife art excellence.
Garry describes his work as phot or hyperrealism. He works in water based oils on canvas and board.
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Honorable Mention Award Winner |
Laura Levitsky
"Morning's Song" (Acrylic)
Art is where I go to explore and express. I get lost in it. It is the only thing I seem to have an infinite patience for as I can sit for hours and meticulously paint every hair of lichen growing on a tree.
For me, it is important to include the smallest of pixie-up lichen or the damselfly resting on a blade of grass as I feel it assists in capturing the whole story and hopefully exposes it to the viewer as an important part of the whole picture, not just in the painting, but in nature itself...
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Honorable Mention Award Winner |
Douglass Lockyer
"Moneypenny, the Secretary Bird" (Watercolor)
I'm a Kiwi (New Zealand born and raised) who has lived in Sydney, Australia for seven years, then New York for twenty and have recently returned to New York from Nairobi, Kenya, where I lived, on and off, for seven years. I paint watercolor and mixed media bird nad wildlife art, focusing on birds and mammals from New Zealand, Australia and recently, Kenya. I donate typically around 50% of each wildlife painting proceeds to one of several Kenyan wildlife conservancies or trusts.
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Honorable Mention Award Winner |
Calvin Nicholls
"Giant Panda" ()
The illusion of depth, texture and form is created by the interaction of light and shadow on my monochromatic paper sculptures. My interests in art, wildlife and photography have united as I create these archival pieces and attempt to capture their inherent subtlties on large format colour transparency film.
I work from my home/studio north of Toronto in Lindsay Ontario Canada
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Honorable Mention Award Winner |
Natalie Parker
"Sweet Things" (Acrylic)
Through my art I hope to encourage a greater appreciation and awareness of how unique Australia's wildlife is. I believe that we all have a responsibility to take care and protect our fauna and flora. We have such a diverse array of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and insects. Some dangerous, and some are tiny and seemingly insignificant, but all are just as important as each other. Through my artwork I feel that I can help highlight how important it is to preserve wildlife we have left.
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Honorable Mention Award Winner |
Ahsan Qureshi 
"Snowleopards" (Oil)
It is through the eyes and ears of an artistic individual that even the most ordinary of circumstances prevailing in our everyday surroundings may be given a special touch of beauty by an elegant expression of what one sees or hears on ones choice of medium, be it through painting, words or music.
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Honorable Mention Award Winner |
Martin Ridley
""Winter Sun", Red Foxes" (Oil)
I primarily paint the wildlife and landscape of the British Isles using oils. Following relocation in 2001 many of my works depict the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Most recently I've created a series of major paintings depicting wildlife subjects from North America.
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Honorable Mention Award Winner |
Martin Ridley
""Antlers Down", American Elk & Gray Wolves" (Oil)
I primarily paint the wildlife and landscape of the British Isles using oils. Following relocation in 2001 many of my works depict the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Most recently I've created a series of major paintings depicting wildlife subjects from North America.
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