James Prosek

Prosek paints tributes to nature, focusing our attention on the loss of the natural environment. The depiction of natural forms is not something new. From Albert Durer to Eugene Delacroix and James Audubon, artists have often looked to nature for inspiration. What sets Prosek's work apart though, is his desire to remove his subject matter from its native environment. Rather than painting fish in their natural habitat, Prosek presents his images in utter isolation thus enabling him to render “the beauty of the forms and the diversity of the shapes and colors.”