Anna Good's Bio

Mediums: Scrimshaw, Watercolor, Oil.

Anna Good grew up in Ohio and received her degree in sculpture from the University of California. When she moved to Maui in 1979, she initially made her mark as a scrimshaw artist. Still a practicing scrimshander, her pieces have been shown in galleries and added to private collections across the nation. Extensive travel and research on wildlife led her to broadened horizons as an accomplished watercolorist and oil painter, painting statements on canvas to help preserve all of earth's creatures.

"The Rooms for Wildlife" series is an on going statement on man's relationship to his environment, particularly his fellow creatures of the earth. The pieces depict endangered species from around the world. They an not depicted in the wild, but rather in man's dwellings, in finely appointed rooms where they've become masters of the house. Some of these are humorous pieces, which derive their humor from the contrast and irony of wild animals perfectly at home and in charge. Nature in often still present, but seen in the background, through the windows, the way man usually views it.

Anna Good knows that earth's species an closely intertwined, in fact inseparable. Her art in an effort to increase awareness to that fact in the viewer, but not in a heavy handed, "beat the drum" style. Anna uses whimsy to let the optimist and idealist in all of us see, just for a moment, how close all of God's creatures really are.