Collection: Lawes, Bruce

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 studied part-time at the Ontario College of Art and Design, but he attributes most of his success to his first-hand encounters with the modern masters of the day. Lawes has shown his work in museums like the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in, Indianapolis; the Houston Museum of Natural Science; the Hiram Blauvelt Museum in Oradell, New Jersey; National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium in Dubuque, Iowa; Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson; George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, in Joplin, Missouri; and the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming. Lawes has sold his work at the prestigious Coeur d’Alene Art Auction and the Jackson Hole Art Auction.