July 15-17, 2016, Speak for Wolves is extremely proud to announce that French artist Virginie Baude will be displaying her beautiful and inspiring paintings at this year’s event! www.speakforwolves.org
“Virginie Baude is dedicating herself to create images that convey the intensity and spirit of the wild and to inspire the viewer to preserve all that is natural wild and free. She is greatly inspired by the wolf because it is emblematic for the great wild places remaining and is a symbol of a free spirit living among us.” www.amongthewolves.com
About Virginie Baude, her life, her art and her love of wildlife
A native of France, Virginie E Baude has always loved wild animals, especially the large ones of the North. She imagined them as she was reading Jack London’s books as a child. She began drawing these animals early on and her talent was noticed by her teachers and closed ones.
Instead of taking the Art route, Virginie received a Master’s Degree in France in wildlife biology and learned more about animals’ behaviors and ecology.
After graduation she came regularly to the American West and started her first wildlife encounters while in Yellowstone National Park, Denali National Park in Alaska and in the Canadian Rockies. She finally made permanent move to America and now resides in the Teton Valley, just outside of Jackson Hole, WY.
As a self-taught artist, Virginie began using charcoals and acrylic paints to depict vast wilderness landscapes and wild animals. She now paints with oils, and it has been a love affair since then. She appreciates the spontaneity and freedom the medium leaves her.
Her work is contemporary, fresh, made of abstract shapes, impastos and is impressionistic. She is interested in textures, the study of colors and light and always tries to capture the true essence of the wild animals.
The colors are enough to set the mood…
She also reviews literature to study different styles and techniques and finds inspiration in the work of the old Masters such as Sargent and Zorn and other contemporary artists she admires, including Bob Kuhn, Jeremy Lipking, Mickael Klein, Jeremy Mann, James Reynolds, Greg Beecham…and whenever possible she studies under the guidance of contemporary masters such as Zhaoming WU and Huihan Liu.
www.amongthewolves.com website of artist Virginie Baude
Museum and gallery trips help get her creative juice flowing as well as the seasonal field trips to Yellowstone to observe wildlife and most importantly wolves.
I paint wild animals but have the greatest admiration for the wolf …
Virginie Baude will be at Speak for Wolves event July 15-17, 2016 in West Yellowstone, Montana. We hope you can be part of this family-friendly event, too! www.speakforwolves.org
To find out more on Virginie Baude and her art go to: www.amongthewolves.com
The wolf has forever been misunderstood…
~Virginie Baude
Beautiful work!
Beautiful and stunning, my favorite is the wolf and Raven