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Snow Buntings with Young Art Print
by Barry Kent MacKay
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Snow Buntings with Young art print by Barry Kent MacKay. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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The Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) nests above the treeline, well up into the high arctic, although there are some records of them nesting... more
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The Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) nests above the treeline, well up into the high arctic, although there are some records of them nesting above the treeline on mountains further south than the arctic and subarctic regions where they normally occur. Most paintings and photographs of Snow Buntings show them in their lovely winter plumage when they have a patterns of soft tan-colours that, in the spring, wear off to reveal their crisply black and white summer plumage, seen here. I have shown a pair feeding a chick who has just fledged from a nearby nest. They perch on a skull of a muskox, a mammal that also occurs in the high arctic. To them it is just another rock, to me it hints at the looming threat of global climate change to such arctic species as Muskoxen and Snow Buntings, but also the promise of new life and new generations. Acrylic on Russian birch on basswood bracing,
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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