The concept for this painting is based on a large wild leopard that I spent an entire afternoon watching in Africa’s Serengeti. I like the implied movement created by the intense gaze of the leopard looking out of the scene, allowing the viewer to wonder: what has attracted his attention?

Shrill cries, shrieking and “pant-hooting” ring across the jungle in a wild chorus of communications with unseen chimpanzees deeper in the forest…