This is a new series featuring animals from around the world dressed in one style of clothing from a culture of that region during the Middle Ages. Each animal's clothing is made from what that animal eats in its native ecosystem. This series consists of my most heavily researched paintings since it was vitally important to me to accurately depict traditional clothing.
A beaver dressed in a style worn by the Tlingit in an area now known as the Pacific coast of the northern United States and southern Canada. Her clothes are made from aquatic plants and trees native to this part of the world that make up the beaver's diet, including yellow pond lilies, broadleaf arrowhead, quillwort, slough sedge grass, aspen, Pacific willow, and silver maple.
A polar bear dressed in a style worn by the Inuit of the Arctic area now known as Greenland. Her clothes are made from a living group of ringed seals, bearded seals, Arctic Char fish, and Atlantic salmons, along with winged kelp and common eider eggs.
A New England cottontail rabbit dressed in a style worn by the Wampanoag “People of the Dawnland”. Her clothing and adornments are made of checkered rattlesnake-plantain, arrowhead violets, slender yellow wood sorrel, smartweed, manna grass, barren strawberry, and birch.