BIO Internationally renowned artist, Ezra Tucker began his award winning career in the field of Illustration. Producing many familiar advertisements and enduring images for a multitude of America’s Fortune 500 corporations. Ezra's striking imagery stimulates and challenges the senses while capturing the viewer's imagination. Branching out beyond the restrictive expectations and limitations of illustration, Ezra lends his unique style and refreshing perspective to the traditional genre of Wildlife Art. Painting animals is Ezra's passion. With his touch and his vast knowledge of species, anatomy and technique, he gives his subjects a fresh appeal, reminiscent of the old masters. Ezra draws upon a period of the 1800s, when the world began to appreciate the multitude of its exotic and varied animal species. Choosing to paint almost exclusively wildlife in his style, he paints his animal subjects as having apparent intelligence and individual distinctive personalities. Ezra depicts his animals as fluid subjects in motion even when they are at rest. He finds the art of modern wildlife artist Bob Kuhn as well as classical wildlife artist, Carl Rungius, and other painters such as W.R. Leigh, N.C. Wyeth and Norman Rockwell inspirational and all have influenced his art. Ezra's style relies on his strong draftsmanship, expert painterly skills and design expertise. The duality between rendering and painting intertwined in a compelling composition is inventive and ground breaking. Ezra's bold and distinctive style of painting animals reflects his acute observation of his subjects and displays an intimate and emotional portrait quality rarely seen in Wildlife Art. Thus giving the viewer the opportunity to see the animals with a renewed knowledge and appreciation. Ezra’s artwork has been on exhibition at; the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; the Texas Rangers Historical Museum in Austin, Texas; the Canton Museum of Art in Canton, Ohio; the Bruce Watkins Center in Kansas City, Missouri; The Booth Western Art Museum In Cartersville, Georgia and the Old West Museum in Cheyenne, Wyoming. His original art is included in museum and many private and Fortune 500 corporate collections. Please enjoy the journey as you explore Ezra's animal kingdom. Continue