"How brittle in reality are all the things whose permanence is never questioned."  

 20th-century explorer Freya Stark

 

The National Butterfly Center in Mission Texas is home to over 200 species of butterflies. The center is fighting the US government's plan to bisect the refuge with its border wall.  I am painting butterflies to show support of the National Butterfly Center and its fight against the border wall.

 

To learn more about the National Butterfly Center click here.

 

Michael S. Engel, paleontologist and entomologist at the University of Kansas, wrote a poignant editorial in the Washington Post the other day explaining why "Butterflies aren't expendable. Our brittle reality depends on them too... Anything that jeopardizes insect success undermines our own." Click here to read it.

 

CNN featured the National Butterfly Center on February 27. Click here to view the feature called, "The butterfly sanctuary at the heart of border wall fight." Also, Bill Weir, CNN  correspondent, took some great photos of the refuge in this twitter thread: click here to view. 

 

To read more about the National Butterfly Center and its fight against the border wall  click here for a February 13th article from National Public Radio (NPR).

 

To donate directly to the National Butterfly Center click here.

 

 

 

Recent Awards

 

"Green Bow," 10" x 10", oil on linen, won Honorable Mention in the juried Art League Show, May, 2019

 

"Night Shift," 5" x 7", oil on panel won Honorable Mention in the juried Art League Show, March, 2019

 

"Piece of Cake," 10" x 10", oil on linen won Best in Show in the juried Art League Show, November, 2018

 

"Driving Rain," oil on panel, 6" x 6", won Honorable Mention at the Art League March Show Titled, "Sense of Space," March, 2018