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James Stroud

James Stroud
Sculptures In Paint

There is nothing meek or ambiguous about a charging elephant especially when the tusker in question appears to be lunging off a canvas from South African painter James Stroud. His vivid wildlife portraits are so different from the flat surfaces of most sporting art they could be described as sculptures of paint. A topo map is almost required to navigate through his sense canyons of texture and rivers of color. ...More...

And it is no exaggeration to say that Stroud, who made a hugely successful debut in North America at Safari Club International’s 2007 convention, takes an elbow deep approach to laying down oil. Whether he is pushing paint thickly with a palette knife or using other tools including his hands to achieve distinctive visual effects such as portraying dust on a Cape Buffalo, the spots on a leopard’s coat or the flowing mane of a lion. Stroud has won praise from collectors for making his subjects actually look – and feel – true to life.

“It excites me that someone is able to look at the animal image and be seduced by it, and then be able to look more closely at the paint itself and understand the actual physiology of the illusion,” Stroud says. Still, the dilemma for contemporary nature painters Stroud explains, lies with deciding how to celebrate the environment and iconic African species without falling into the trap of confirming old visual clichés. “I see my work as an attempt to both affirm the natural beauty of the visual world and at the same time to dissect the assumptions that we have about what great art is supposed to be.”

A South African native, he grew up on a timber plantation in eastern Mpumalanga on the wild edge of Kruger Park. On a primal level, he had a front row seat to predators and prey. Mpumalanga was a crossroads for international hunters and photographers. Sketching both people and animals, Stroud went to a rural school where Afrikaans was the first language and English the second. However, the most important aspect of Stroud’s work is the uniqueness and originality of the style and medium. Often referred to as the LeRoy Neiman of wildlife art, he has taken his work further creating sculptural paintings in more true-to-life light and color....Less...

James Stroud

Original PaintingsLimited Editions

Original Paintings

James Stroud
A PERFECT PATTERN
NEW
Oil on panel
24 X 48
JS28382
James Stroud
BUSHVELD BROTHERS
NEW
Oil on canvas
35 1/2 X 59
JS28036
James Stroud
DANCE OF THE FLAMINGOS
NEW
Oil on panel
48 X 36
JS28037
James Stroud
FRESH SCENT
NEW
Oil on panel
35 X 24
JS29257
SOLD
James Stroud
SERIOUS INTENT
NEW
Oil
36 X 24
JS28645
James Stroud
SPOOKED
NEW
Oil on panel
24 X 48
JS28383
James Stroud
TALLEST OF THEM ALL
NEW
Oil on panel
35 X 24
JS29256
SOLD
James Stroud
THE OBSERVERS
NEW
Oil
36 X 59
JS29255
James Stroud
THREE'S COMPANY
NEW
Oil on panel
24 X 36
JS28891
James Stroud
WHITE KNIGHT PATROL
NEW
Oil on canvas
36 X 59
JS29254
James Stroud
WILD BOYS
NEW
Oil on panel
30 X 48
JS28894
SOLD
James Stroud
A MOMENT OF BEAUTY
Oil on panel
24 X 48
JS26571
SOLD
James Stroud
A PERFECT ARRANGEMENT
Oil
36 X 24
JS24237
SOLD
James Stroud
AN EYE ON YOU
Oil
36 X 24
JS26574
SOLD
James Stroud
BEE-EATERS QUARTET
Oil
24 X 36
JS28385
SOLD
James Stroud
BLUE REFLECTION
Oil on panel
24 X 36
JS23228
SOLD
James Stroud
CALLA LILIES
Oil
48 X 35
JS25678
James Stroud
EAGLE SCOUTS
Oil on canvas
72 X 51
JS26383
James Stroud
EVERGLADES MORNING
Oil on panel
24 X 18
JS19762
James Stroud
EVERLAND
Oil on board
24 X 48
JS18842
SOLD
James Stroud
FAMILY PERCH
Oil on panel
24 x 36
JS27314
James Stroud
FAMILY TREE
Oil on panel
24 X 48
JS16849
SOLD
James Stroud
FLAMINGO SUNSET
Oil on panel
36 X 24
JS27315
SOLD
James Stroud
FLYING HOME
Oil
24 X 35 3/4
JS25228
SOLD
James Stroud
FROM MY GARDEN
Oil on panel
48 X 36
JS27312
SOLD
James Stroud
GOLDEN PERCH
Oil
48 X 30
JS25453
SOLD
James Stroud
HAPPY HOUR
Oil
48 X 36
JS26795
SOLD
James Stroud
HORNY ONE
Oil
24 X 36
JS28644
SOLD
James Stroud
IN FOCUS
Oil on panel
48 X 24
JS27593
SOLD
James Stroud
IN THE COMPANY OF KINGS
Oil
30 X 48
JS24429
SOLD
James Stroud
IN UNISON
Oil on panel
36 x 24
JS27317
James Stroud
KEEP YOUR DISTANCE
Oil on panel
24 X 48
JS21807
James Stroud
KING OF THE WATERHOLE
Oil on panel
48 X 36
JS17230
SOLD
James Stroud
LIONESS
Oil
36 X 48
JS28830
SOLD
James Stroud
LUNAR TOUCHDOWN
Oil on panel
48 X 24
JS22124
SOLD
James Stroud
MOTHER & CHILD
Oil
35 3/4 X 24
JS25231
SOLD
James Stroud
OBSERVER
Oil
36 X 48
JS28647
SOLD
James Stroud
PELICAN PATROL
Oil
24 X 48
JS26572
SOLD
James Stroud
PELICAN'S POST
Oil
48 X 36
JS26797
SOLD
James Stroud
PROTECTIVE PAWS
Oil
36 X 24
JS26573
SOLD
James Stroud
ROYAL CAMOUFLAGE
Oil
36 X 48
JS26794
SOLD
James Stroud
SEARCH PARTY
Oil
36 X 48
JS28646
SOLD
James Stroud
SHARING IS CARING
Oil on panel
36 X 24
JS28892
SOLD
James Stroud
SOMETHING OF INTEREST
Oil
36 X 48
JS28038
SOLD
James Stroud
STRIKE A POSE
Oil on panel
24 x 36
JS27316
SOLD
James Stroud
SUNSET MARCH
Oil
51 X 72
JS26384
SOLD
James Stroud
SUNSET WALK
Oil
36 X 24
JS28384
James Stroud
THE PURSUIT
Oil on panel
48 X 24
JS21364
James Stroud
THE STRAND
Oil on canvas
20 X 37
JS18895
SOLD
James Stroud
THUNDERING APPROACH
Oil
35 1/2 X 55
JS25676
SOLD
James Stroud
UP AND ADAM
Oil
48 X 30
JS25403
SOLD
James Stroud
WHEN I SAY GO
Oil
59 X 35 1/2
JS28035
SOLD
James Stroud
WHITE LOOKOUT
Oil
48 X 24
JS25451
SOLD
James Stroud
WHITE REFLECTIONS
Oil
48 X 30
JS28893
James Stroud
WIND BENEATH MY WINGS
Oil on panel
30 X 48
JS25454

Limited Editions

James Stroud
A PERFECT ARRANGEMENT
Giclee
36 X 24
$2,699.00
Unframed: $2,100.00
24618
James Stroud
DIGNIFIED
Giclee
48 X 30
$3,999.00
Unframed: $2,800.00
25327
James Stroud
GREAT BLUE HERON
Giclee
36 X 24
$2,699.00
Unframed: $2,100.00
JST00001
James Stroud
LIONESS & CUB
Giclee
36 X 48
$4,699.00
Unframed: $3,400.00
JST00004
James Stroud
OLD FRIENDS
Giclee
24 X 36
$2,699.00
Unframed: $2,100.00
24623
James Stroud
PASSING INTEREST
Giclee
18 X 24
$1,899.00
Unframed: $1,400.00
JST00002
James Stroud
SNOWY EGRET DUET
Giclee
42 X 32
$3,889.00
Unframed: $2,700.00
JST00003
James Stroud
WATCH AND WAIT
Giclee
36 X 48
$4,699.00
Unframed: $3,500.00
25320

2017

Hunter’s Horn – Fall 2017

Cover Artist - James Stroud's "The Warrior",  24 x 36, Oil on panel

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2015

Hunter’s Horn

Wildlife Impasto - South African animal painter James Stroud wins praise for giving portrayals of iconic species contemporary flair by Todd Wilkinson

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2012

Game Trails

Cover Artist James Stroud - Sculptures In Paint

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2008

Sporting Classics

The highly textured paintings of South African artist James Stroud challenge the viewer to recognize and appreciate the spirit of the animal By Todd Wilkinson

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Wildlife Art Journal

Bushveld Impasto: The Art of James Stroud South African Paints Animals With A contemporary Sculptural Flair: Written by Wildlife Art Journal Staff James Stroud paints black zebra stripes with the same flourish of surface texture Vincent van Gogh brought to his sunflowers. And, in laying down thick-hued splotches of paint with a palette knife, be it to accentuate an elephant's trunk or rhinoceros horn, his technique-which is to say, Stroud's way of seeing and sculpting paint-

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