The Janice Mason Art Museum in Cadiz has a new exhibit that features many covers of ‘Kentucky Afield’ magazine that will remain up for most of the spring.
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Artist Rick Hill, a native of Jeffersontown, told the News Edge he began his professional art career at 18.
Rick Shaw (Photo Provided: Kentucky Fish and Wildlife)
Local residents will have a chance to experience Kentucky nature through the eyes of fish and wildlife artist Rick Hill during a special exhibition this spring at the Janice Mason Art Museum in Cadiz.
Spokesman Dave Baker with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources says Hill, of Shelby County, is a self-taught artist and naturalist and paints the covers for
Kentucky Afield, the department’s quarterly magazine.
The exhibition will feature acrylic paintings specially created by Hill over the past two decades for the covers of the magazine. Subjects will include a timberdoodle, shellcracker, American kestrel, gray fox, elk, various sporting scenes and more. An ecosystem painting and a portrayal of a Kentucky bobcat prowling the ridgetops of the Red River Gorge will also be featured as part of the display.
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