Artist: Ron Parker Subject: Animals Style: Natural Modern Product Type: Gallery-Wrapped Canvas Art This ready to hang, gallery-wrapped art piece features a deer making its way across the snow covered ground.
Using watercolors, a medium with which he was familiar, he began doing vignette paintings of birds and mammals, Within four months he was selling originals through the Harrison Gallery in Vancouver. His first effort, in 1977, was successful and he quit work and began painting full time. At the age of 35, he was inspired, after seeing an exhibition of original paintings by Fenwick Lansdowne, to try painting wildlife himself. Gallery wrap is a method of stretching an artist's canvas so that the canvas wraps around the sides and is secured a hidden, wooden frame.