Ewoud de Groot was named 2014 “Featured Artist” for the 27th Annual Western Visions show gathering on August 30th to September 21st, 2014.

Western Visions is a signature event held through the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “Ewoud lives and works in Egmond aan Zee, a coastal village in the north of the Netherlands.

Born in 1969 in Alkmarr, he attended the Minerva Academy of Art and received a degree in illustration and painting. After illustrating nature books for a couple of years, he began painting full time. His work has been featured in many exhibitions in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His subjects are often seabirds and waders. He spends time on his Dutch shrimp cutter exploring the Waddensea, an internationally known wetland that is actually a chain of islands, mudflats, and sandbanks, starting in the Netherlands and ending in the…