Galleries West Fine Art

Terry Isaac

Discipline(s): Acrylic

Accolades: 2000: Special Guest Artist at the Southeast Wildlife Expo 1999: Named Friend of the National Zoo as Artist of the Year. 1998: Pacific Rim Wildlife Art Show Artist of the Year, Florida Wildlife and Western Art Expo Artist of the Year.

Bio:
Artist Terry Isaac is a native northwesterner. Now living in Canada, Isaac lived much of his life in the Willamette Valley of Oregon between the Cascade Mountain Range and the Pacific Ocean, and his passion leads him to paint the wildlife and landscapes of the western United States and Canada. Isaac’s captivating scenes of nature are rendered in acrylics. The source of his inspiration is often as near as his own backyard, where he delights in watching the birds that have been the subject of many of his paintings. “To be a good artist, you need to be a good observer,” he explains.

Although Isaac received a formal art education, graduating with honors, he believes his best training has come from being outdoors and from studying the work of his favorite wildlife artists.

In the last few years, Isaac has placed in 12 stamp and print competitions. He enjoys participating in these state and national fish and waterfowl competitions because they require high standards of painting technique, design, animal anatomy, and habitat. Isaac has been selected to participate in several important art exhibitions, including the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum’s prestigious Birds in Art exhibitions. He was also commissioned to produce 14 waterfowl drawings for the Audubon Bird Handbook, published in 1987. Published by Mill Pond Press since 1988, Terry’s art is the subject of the book, Painting the Drama of Wildlife, Step by Step, published by North Light Books. His work is also featured in Painting Birds Step by Step (cover artist, North Light Books, 1996), The Best of Wildlife Art (cover artist, North Light Books, 1997), and More Wildlife Painting Techniques of Modern Masters (Watson-Guptill Publications, 1996). Among his long list of accomplishments, Isaac was hired as a visual consultant, helping to develop the concept art for the main character in the Disney movie, Dinosaur.

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