"Comeback"

Acrylic 20"x11"

Commissioned

The magnificent Grey wolf (Canis lupus ) was driven to extinction in the British Isles by man the last wolf stronghold being in Ireland, but by 1760 or so the wolf was exterminated from our islands. There is now talk, by some conservationists, of reintroducing the wolf to Scotland and perhaps eventually into England or Wales. The wolf in my painting is in an English wood cautiously entering new territory, making a comeback...

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