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& ■ Linda Besse Award-winning artist Linda Besse has created a stylish selection of original oils in her new Gold Collection series. Using a modern twist to the portrait, each painting depicts a wildlife subject in great detail. Knowing that wall space can sometimes be at a premium, each piece is 12 x 9 inches and custom-framed. Selling for $1,100 each, the images can be displayed alone or in groupings. Linda's body of work was recognized when she was named Safari Club International Foundation Conservation Artist of the Year in 2014. Collected on four continents, her oil paintings are exhibited in museums around the country. Her work has been accepted into the Paint the Parks Competition, Oil Painters of America National Show, International Guild of Realism Masterworks Museum Tour, and at CM Russell Museum Auction. Linda has shown her paintings at SCI for the past 15 years. Visit www.besseart.com pronghorn and bighorn BY Linda Besse ■ John BanoVich Internationally acclaimed for his dramatic portrayals of wildlife, John Banovich has seen his large oil paintings placed in private, corporate, and museum collections throughout the world. One of his latest paintings depicts a family of five lions that have just taken down a warthog, a favorite prey of the world's only social cat. The painting is entitled Giclee- Bahati Ya Kawinda-In, which in Swahili means "Lucky Hunting." "Many of my works stem from an idea born in the field, one that is nurtured and grows from a concept to a completed painting," John explains. "This painting, as with most of my works, focuses on the wild kingdom, void of any influence from man. It's the way I want to tell the animals' stories—authentic, true, and revealing something about them that we as humans can relate to, something analogous with our lives, closing the chasm between their world and ours." Like the great Western artists of the last two centuries, John Banovich is painting a vanishing world, documenting on canvas what will one day be a revered lost moment in time. Visit www.johnbanovich.com. decor