About

For more than 45 years, Palmore has painted captivating portraits of animals that blend the provocative and the surreal through characteristic sophisticated humor and exquisite detail. Painted with incredible, ultra-fine brushwork, his tigers, penguins, horses, dogs, and other creatures seem to pause from their daily lives to act as models, posed theatrically in front of a variety of natural and theater-like backdrops.

Palmore’s masterful works use a variety of methods of painting he has developed over time. He mixes acrylic paint into gesso for the base layer, under paints with acrylic, …