Visual Arts

The Wise Owl interviews modern day naturalist and professional wild-life and paleo artist, Esther Van Hulsen. Based in a tiny cabin close to the fjords and forests of Norway, Ms Hulsen creates beautifully detailed, photo realistic portraits of wildlife. Esther’s award-winning art has been exhibited worldwide. She has also illustrated numerous award-winning books, which have been published in countries like Norway, The Netherlands, Russia, China, Japan and France.  Commissions include illustrations for Nature Magazine, National Geographic, Popular Science Magazine and works for various natural history museums worldwide. Her illustration of Ida, in a book of the same name, about the 47-million-years-old primate found in Germany, brings it alive for the present-day generation.