Bruce K. Lawes

Bruce K. Lawes, is an internationally collected artist with a passion for animal art and conservation. He is a signature member of the Artists for Conservation (AFC), The Society of Animal Artists (SAA) and The Oil Painters of America (OPA). He was born in 1962 in Toronto, Canada.  Lawes has studied part time at the Ontario College of Art and Design but attributes most of his success to the first hand encounters he fostered with the modern masters of the day. Lawes has shown his work in museums like the Eiteljorg Museum, the Houston Museum of Natural Science  and The Hiram Blauvelt Museum, National Mississippi River Museum, Bookgreen Gardens, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and George A. Spiva Center for the Arts and the National Museum of Wildlfe Art. Lawes has had his work auctioned at the presitgious Coeur d’Alene Art Auction and the Jackson Hole Art Auction.

American Art Collector (2021) wrote: “His oil paintings are realistic renderings of beasts from across the world. They capture a specific moment in time for each animal, opening our eyes to this idea that every creature has its own complex, nuanced life.”

Southwest Art Magazine (2020) wrote: “The 58-year-old artist has forged an admirable career as one of the top painters working today in the genres of wildlife, equine, historical, and figurative art through a singular combination of innate talent, meticulous research, and old-fashioned hard work.”

Art of the West Magazine recently praised Lawes as “one of the most versatile among today’s field of highly skilled representational artists, Lawes moves with seamless articulation between the genres of wildlife and equine portraiture, landscapes, and figurative renditions of historic events.”

International  Artist Magazine wrote,  “One of  the first things you notice about the art of Bruce Lawes is the artist’s versatility; whether it be a figurative painting, a landscape or an equine his work always upholds a strong  level of quality, craftsmanship and  technical skill.”

Lawes’s passion to paint can only be surpassed by his reason for painting. The ‘why’ will always bring him the most satisfaction and purpose.