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Edward Rooks
Representative: Kristine Conley-Brockie
205-B Jackson Street, San Jose, CA 95112 USA

info@dumpydog.com

Edward Rooks is a naturalist and wildlife artist originally from Trinidad and Tobago. He lives in San Jose, California, with his wife and pet cats. He teaches, leads nature tours, and paints in acrylics. He teaches or has taught people to draw birds at the following institutions:
     Cheesemans' Ecology Safaris (Antarctic, Costa Rica, and Trinidad)
     Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society
     Central Valley Birding Symposium
     California Fish and Wildlife?s Wild on Wetlands Weekend
     Santa Clara University


Style:

Realism

Media:

Acrylic on watercolor paper or canvas

Preferred species:
No preference
Preferred geographic region:
No preference
Preferred use of earlier or later work:
Either

See also:
electronic media:

dumpydog.com/blog/fine-art/

selected published images:

     Donkey Says No! dual language readers for children and adults (2009)
     Breeding Bird Atlas of Santa Clara County, California (2007)
     Cover Art for the journal BioScience, January 1988. Original artwork is an           acrylic painting of Eastern Tent Caterpillars, commissioned by T. D.
          Fitzgerald
     Sanctuary magazine cover and illustrations, 1988
     Species in Danger in Our Own Backyard Birding at the Bottom of the Bay,
          3rd edition (Santa Clara Audubon Society)
     Serving The Intellect, Touching The Heart by George Giocomini and Gerald
          McKevitt, S.J., Santa Clara University (2000)