Artists > Marie Rust

“Alternating layers of colored pencils, ink, graphite, and other drawing media, and working almost exclusively from my own photography and field experience, I create finely detailed and intimate portraits of wildlife.  Through composition and cropping my work is meant to reconnect viewer and subject, a primal connection I feel has been lost in our hectic and overly-mechanized world.  I believe it is important to present these amazing creatures as individuals in order to remind us that we are all sentient beings deserving of life.”