Bo Newell Biography Continued:

...The Dallas Safari Club and Houston Safari Club have chosen Bo as "Artist of the Year,” the latter three years in a row.

Bo's creations in bronze and on canvas include Alaskan Wilderness, Colorado Rockies, Rio Grande River to Amboseli, Serengeti, Masai-Mara, Samburu, Maisai, and Bushman.

His recent creations reflect a surrealistic style featuring a painting within a painting, adding a new dimension to his already-intriguing works. Bo's special gift is to breathe life into fantasy. By means of the compositional device of a picture within a picture, creatures emerge out of the image instead of drawing the viewer into it. Ghostly and elegant, the big animals step down out of their painted environment onto stacks of books about Africa, and thence to the mantel. The scale changes abruptly. Magnificent and free in the painting, they become tiny and as fragile as unicorns. They drink from a china saucer, which, because of the illusion, is as big as a stock tank.

These paintings within paintings, as well as Bo's classic wildlife studies, are bittersweet elegies, delivered with consummate artistry. They are a clear call to restore whatever can be restored, and to move swiftly to protect what remains.

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