Doctor Dolittle was one of my childhood heroes, and I guess I’ve always dreamed I could talk to the animals.  I have a quotation on my website, translated from the novel “Perri, the Youth of a Squirrel” by Felix Salten, which beautifully sums up my feelings about our relationship with animals and nature:

“How could they know the child yearned for reconciliation between man and animal, for restoration of the long-lost unity of man with Nature, for a bridge to span the gaping abyss?
The attempt always fails, the delicate link is torn asunder, and the trembling bridge collapses once more.T
he abyss remains.And all else is only a dream.”

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I was fortunate to have grown up in some of the most beautiful wild places in the United States, where I could daily witness the magic of the seasons, the lives of wild creatures, and could feel the mysterious, intangible forces of the natural world.  It’s all this that I try to express in my work, whether it be drawing, painting or printmaking.  Now I live in Brussels, Belgium, but I still manage to go to the woods at least twice a week to catch up on the news from my wild friends…

Please visit my website at www.ateliersuriz.be, where you can see a range of my work.