Barry Flahey Fine Arts
Nature Art, Landscapes, Wildlife
Specializing in transparent watercolours,
pastels and pen & ink

Blue Darner -- new!

Gallery of art works - new!
Biography - Biographie
Awards
One-man shows and group exhibits
Limited Edition Nature Print Gallery
Gicleé Reproductions of
     Watercolour Paintings

Ordering and Pricing
Contact

 
Insect Art

Insect art is available in the following formats:

     Christmas and winter fun cards
     greeting cards
     posters
     hasti-notes

   

"Ars longa, vita brevis "

Insects are everywhere. Without them we would not be here, at least in our present form. They are the dominant group of animals on the earth today. So we may as well learn to love and respect them. Take a closer look, they really are beautiful. For several thousand years, insects have appeared in art in one form or another. In some small way this site hopes to carry on that tradition, just click on the Japanese beetle Papilla japonica to see 23 whimsical, but accurately drawn renditions of insects featured in human- like endeavors. From the Iditarod to YK2, from Entomology Classes to briefings in the Middle East Wars, and Carol Singers to Rock Groups, 450 different species of insects are depicted, representing some of the insects in the following Orders: Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Homoptera, Mecoptera, Tricoptera, Isoptera, Siphonaptera, Lepidoptera, Collembola, and Acari.

Barry has won many international awards for his Entomological, Botanical, and Technical Illustrations - some examples of those drawings can be seen here. A knowledge of insects has broadened Barry's horizons, given him a worthwhile and challenging profession, and made trips to the countryside and abroad infinitely more interesting.

  For those Arthropodologically devoted...
      Popillia japonica, the Japanese Beetle
   

Barry Flahey Fine Arts
PO Box 298
Manotick, ON K4M 1A3
Canada