Matthew Dennison American, 1961

 Matthew Dennison is a lifelong animal lover who spends as much time in nature as he can. While animals appear in his paintings of human scenes, part of his work is also devoted to portraits of animals alone. Dennison's medium is oil, and his primary tools are not brushes but his gloved hands, rags, masking tape, and even paper, used to manipulate the oil paint and score the surface.