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Caracal Painting
United Kingdom
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 31.5 W x 39.4 H x 1.6 D in
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About The Artwork
Wild animals are not pets. In this painting I am trying to portray untamed, natural, feline beauty. The caracal, also known as the Persian lynx and the gazelle cat, is a medium-sized wild cat found in the dry areas of Africa, India and the Middle East. They are powerful and agile with long, sturdy legs that act like springs, allowing them to leap straight up and snatch birds right out of the air. Caracals are supreme, opportunistic hunters and apart from birds they also catch rodents, mongoose, hyraxes, and small monkeys. Caracals are not declining in most of their range, but they still face threats to their populations. Agriculture destroys their habitat. As they are forced closer to human communities, they will hunt small livestock resulting in retaliation killing. In other areas of its range, it risks being hunted for its skin and for its meat, considered a delicacy by some bush tribes. Also, caracals can fall victim of trafficking for the illegal pet trade.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:31.5 W x 39.4 H x 1.6 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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United Kingdom
Steve Nayar is a painter living and working in Totnes, Devon. He originally trained to be an art teacher at Nottingham, Trent University but after graduating forged an award-winning career in design and advertising. He always had a love of animals and became concerned about the growing loss of the planet’s biodiversity. So that, in recent years he has focused on realistic paintings of endangered species in oils, often head and shoulders, gazing out at the viewer, sometimes imploring, sometimes challenging. His paintings are in private collections in the UK and overseas. He donates a portion of the sale to various conservation organisations and he has been a finalist at the prestigious Wildlife Artist of the Year every year, for the past five years. For several years he has been invited to teach in Mauritius and in 2022, gave a presentation at the prestigious Caudan Art Centre, in the capital Port Louis about raising awareness of wildlife through art. Steve is chair of his local art collective, Totnes and Dartington Open Studios.
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