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Polar Bear with Ringed Seal Poster
by Barry Kent MacKay
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Polar Bear with Ringed Seal poster by Barry Kent MacKay. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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The Polar Bear (Urus maritimus) is the largest (although it does overlap the largest of the “Kodiac” subspecies of the Brown (“grizzly”)... more
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Artist's Description
The Polar Bear (Urus maritimus) is the largest (although it does overlap the largest of the “Kodiac” subspecies of the Brown (“grizzly”) bear), and most carnivorous, of the world’s eight bear species. While Polar Bears is iconic and source of concern as climate change removes the ice so essential for its survival, we should be similarly concerned about decline in the environment’s ability to support Ringed Seals, always assumed to be common, as well as significantly important to traditional needs of the Inuit. Male bears can access other sources of fat – the most important part of the Polar Bear’s diet, but for cub-bearing females the Ringed Seal, which also depends on ice for breeding, is essential. I’ve tried to symbolize all this in this oil painting, showing a Polar Bear in open water to represent the loss of ice in her habitat, eating a Ringed Seal, so named because of the ring-like markings on the pelage, just visible in the painting. The painting is...
About Barry Kent MacKay
Renowned Canadian bird artist, writer, naturalist, and conservationist, Barry Kent MacKay has “always been an admirer of birds, anxious to see them, paint them, and care for them.” Barry’s biological and ecological accuracy has put him in demand for commissions, to illustrate books, scientific journals and various print and digital media. He has painted birds and other wildlife from around the world, often life size, working in oils, watercolours, and acrylics. He prefers to sell original art, and keeps prices low. “Actual, original art should be affordable for middle class buyers,” he says. “I avoid having to depend on selling reproductions so that the market does not dictate what I paint, which can often be little-known...
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