Bonnie Marris - Morning Run - Hand Signed - Extra Large Canvas Edition - Image Size: 60"w X 43"h. Limited Edition Of: 50 - What Separates Bonnie Marris From Other Wildlife Artists Is Not Only Her Devoted Treatment Of Her Animal Subjects But Her Meticulous Attention To The Scenery That Frames Them. The Landscape Acts As A Muted But Lovely Secondary Subject In Marris' Dynamic Wildlife Paintings. The Horses In "morning Run" Are The Embodiment Of Freedom, Pounding Forward, Needing Only To Run. The Personality Of Each Horse And Their Motion Can Be Clearly Seen: The Strong Second-in-command Just Behind The Leader, Jockeying For Position; The Skittish And Focused Chestnut And The Haughty, Almost Balletic Grays At The Borders Of The Group. Considered Individually, The Horses Are Magnificent; But As Bonnie Marris Paints Them, As A Herd In Motion, They Are Breathtaking.……about The Artist - Bonnie Marris 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.”

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