February 15 - 17, 2013
Charleston, SC
2013 SEWE Gallery
These artists are for the 2013 SEWE weekend. Click here for all 2012 artists!
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Carl Brenders
Brenders is one of the world's most accomplished nature painters. Specializing in wildlife, Brenders in no way neglects the natural settings in which mammals and birds live. Meticulously realistic, brilliantly observed, and exquisitely composed, his paintings take their place in an artistic tradition that goes back to John James Audubon, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and Wolfgang Kuhnhert. With his growing reputation, he stands as equal beside such distinguished contemporaries as Roger Tory Peterson, Guy Coheleach, and Robert Bateman.
The wildlife images of Brenders' art are first created from pencil sketches; from these sketches his mixed media paintings of watercolor and gouache are completed with a technique he has developed during the last 25 years. His paintings, encompassing every intricacy of nature, devote equal attention to the detail of the wildlife subject and its habitat as well as to the mood created by the light.
Although Brenders feels that there are not enough hours in a lifetime to do all the paintings he would like, he deems details as small and as common as lichens worthy of his time and attention. For, he says, if it takes a lichen 200 years to grow as large as a coin, surely he can devote the extra hours neccessary to perfectly capture its every characteristic.
A dedicated conservationist, Brenders has raised awareness for environmental and conservation causes with his art which enjoys international acclaim. He is widlely collected in North America, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Holland, Argentina and in his native Belgium.
Singer in Paradise (2011) Thrush
Gouache/watercolor on illustration board
20 1/2" x 27"
$39,000
Fighting caribou
Acrylic
29 1/2" x 40"
$60,000
Fisherman’s Wharf
Three puffins
35” x 25 ½”
$49,000
Mating Call
Bugling elk
9 ¾” x 14 3/8”
$12,000
Artist's Website: Carl Brenders