I am a watercolor artist in my leisure time. In September 2001, I made a lifestyle change as a personal contribution to end animal suffering by consuming plant foods instead of meat and other animal products and by choosing alternatives to using animal products or by-products.

My rapid evolution occurred after viewing the compelling video The Witness and thereafter immersing myself in reading an abundance of literature about factory farming.

There was no turning back.

Next came experimenting with different vegan recipes to insure an arsenal of good and nutritious meals and attending animal rights conferences to educate myself further.

And then my watercolors found their direction, and AnimalArt was created.

It is my hope that when people view the beauty and spirit of animals through my art, they will feel compassion and their compassion may lead them to vegetarianism, animal activism, and/or animal advocacy.

Thank you for the privilege of showing you my art and my message. I hope you enjoy the view.

 
Quotes from famous vegetarians:

"As long as there are rivers of blood coming out of the slaughterhouses, the human wish for peace on earth is but a sad joke." Dr. Serge Reynauld de la Ferriere

"Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." Thomas Edison
 

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men." Alice Walker
 

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.  Paul and Linda McCartney

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.  I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.  Mohandas Gandhi

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think there will come a time, and this is down the road a great many years, when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that have preceded it; the idea that we should eat other living things running around on four legs, that we should raise them just for the purpose of killing them!  The people of the future will say, ‘meat-eaters’ in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.  Dennis Weaver

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.  Albert Einstein

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.  Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.  Leo Tolstoy

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.  It was once considered foolish to suppose that black men were really human beings and ought to be treated as such.  What was once foolish has now become a recognized truth.  Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic.  But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics.  Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.  Albert Schweitzer

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse.  It cries vengeance upon all the human race. Romain Rolland (Nobel Prize-winning author)

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat.  There used to be.  But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.  And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig.  I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.  H.G. Wells

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.  Henry David Thoreau

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice.  According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.  Isaac Singer

The question is not, Can they reason?  Nor Can they talk?  But, Can they suffer?  Jeremy Bentham

If any kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming they would never touch meat again.  I was so moved by the intelligence, sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.  James Cromwell

Animals are my friends – and I don’t eat my friends.  George Bernard Shaw

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.  Robert Louis Stevenson

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.  Percy Bysshe Shelly

To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man.  For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal.  But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse.  If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous.  And that is the unpardonable crime.  Romain Rolland

 “I have, from an early age, renounced eating meat: the time will come when we will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of humans.”  Leonardo da Vinci

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.  If beef is your idea of ‘real food for real people,’ you’d better live real close to a real good hospital.  Neal D. Barnard, M.D., President Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine