The Derek C Wicks Archive
Below are my favorite paintings from years gone by. Each artist has a stable of paintings that either have a sentimental attachment to them or have a special meaning to them... the images below are those paintings for me. Some were painted for the sure love of the content and others were painted to send a message, all have my greatest affection for them. Enjoy my history through my work!
The Morphing Landscape
This painting was about the lost of habitat for one of Canada's beautiful bears, the Polar Bear.
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Velvet Splendor
To me a moose in the velvet stage of its antler growth and shed is the most beautiful!
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Winter Sonata
The lines and the contrast of light combined with the play of warm and cools make this paint one of my all time favorites.
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Botswana King
Botswana King is a window into one experience I had in Africa. To see this majestic animal in the wild in one of my biggest thrills.
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Forged By Flow
This painting was one of the most challenging to paint. It was very important to me to catch the power and moment of the river.
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The Mountaineers
This painting was one of those few paintings that just flowed out of me. Nothing was re-painted or altered or reworked. Every stroke seemed to be exactly as it should be.
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Northern Vigil
Whenever I see this image I think of my dogs as this setting is a stream by my house that I walk by almost daily with my dogs.
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Highly Enlightened Position
This painting was inspired by a Blue Jay that continued to peak at my studio window one winter.
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Midnight Sentinel
Than there are the paintings you love just because they are beautiful. I have no reason for it, but Midnight Sentinel is one of my all time favorites.
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Twilight Encounter
This painting is of an encounter I had with a young bull moose in a stream very close to my home.
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Legends Of The Mist
Mountain Gorillas are one of two animals I could paint forever (tiger are the other).
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Alaskan Monarch
I do not think there is anything more regal in the animal world than the brow of the Bald Eagle.
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Shallows Solitude
This painting has always been one of my all time favorites! Painting the water was one of the most challenging and rewarding experience in my painting career!
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Longhouse Lodger
This painting was painted for the Headwaters Historical Archives. The painting shows the inside of a early Huron longhouse. I loved the lighting and theme of this one.
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The Talisman
The Talisman was inspired by the power of the Haida and Tlingit culture and artifacts.
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