Welcome. I'm Eric Sweet, a watercolor and oil painter focused primarily on wildlife and animals. I’m drawn to animals because of the way they exist so completely in the present moment. They aren’t thinking about yesterday or tomorrow. They simply move through the world as they are—curious, alert, cautious, playful, and completely wild. There is something pure about that that I find incredibly compelling. I want to capture something of that presence and remind myself, and hopefully others, to really look at the creatures we share this world with. My paintings occasionally wander to the cosmos, landscapes, and everyday life, but they always find their way back to animals.

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My Artist Notebook is a place for thoughts that extend beyond painting. In The Road Ahead, I explore wildlife–vehicle collisions and the difficult intersection between the natural world and the roads we build through it—questions that have long been important to me as an artist and friend of wildlife.​