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Bonnie Marris has taken an unusual path into art; she developed her talent by portraying
animals “from the inside out.” While she was a student at Michigan State University,
Bonnie illustrated several major books. One volume she worked on was a leading expert’s
mammalogy text that contained several hundred drawings and detail studies. This massive
project attracted the attention of noted zoologist George Schaller, who invited Bonnie to
prepare the art for posters that would support his worldwide rare animal relief programs.
Beyond academic training and emotional involvement, art requires another element for
which there is no substitute: experience. Each year, Bonnie makes two major trips, and
countless smaller ones, to observe and learn about the wildlife she loves. In 1980, one
such voyage took her to Alaska, where she lived in the wilderness for six months. She
recounts, “To get into a natural environment and see the animals on their own terms
is as important as knowing the animals themselves. For instance, gray wolves on the
tundra—the vast, vast tundra with the wind and other forces of nature at their most
extreme—that’s what makes them what they are. To stand not far from a grizzly that is
so overpowering, so beautiful and so large . . . to watch it pull up a small tree with a
swipe of its paw and just a few minutes later see it delicately picking blueberries with its
black lips. . . Alaska changed me; it gave me the biggest incentive to paint and increased
my interest in the predators: the cats, bears, coyotes, wolves and foxes. They exist on so
many levels. Their moods show in their eyes and we can learn so much from them.”
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