A field note
Patricia Wright, a key conservationist in Madagascar, kindly invited me and my family to spend a month at her research station, Centre ValBio in Ranomafana. There, I saw many species of lemurs. One Greater bamboo lemur came especially close, letting me observe its graceful posture on the very bamboo it feeds on exclusively.
V-shape bamboo Greater bamboo lemur · 50 × 70 cm · Acrylic on canvas
Originals from $200 to $3,680, framed and shipped insured from his studio in Ho Chi Minh City.
Vultures · Cambodia
At Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia, three species of vultures still gather, not for feeding but to interact with each other. I watched from a hide for hours. They circled, landed, strutted, but never touched the buffalo carcass below. Jonathan Eames thinks some might be juveniles, just showing off. The smaller birds in the scene added a bit of lightness, like guests arriving late to a party.
Swift · Zambia
Many of us could watch falling water for hours, especially here, where Victoria Falls pours endlessly into the gorge. I was sitting in Livingstone, watching from the Zimbabwe side, when I noticed the swifts flying above the spray. Later I learned what species they were. Their wings echo the curve of the waterfalls: a quiet harmony in all that noise.
The painter
Hoàng paints the species of Southeast Asia, and above all the endangered ones that conservation campaigns rarely mention. Self-taught, in the field since 1999.
Commissions
Murals, scientific illustration, travelling exhibitions and workshops. Commissioned by national parks, hospitals, hotels and the WWF.
