The Locavore
40″ x 50″
oil on canvas

 

 

Satsuma
9″ x 12″
oil on panel

 

 

Oysters
12″ x 16″
oil on panel

 

 

An Offering
24″ x 24″
oil on panel

 

 

Roughage
24″ x 30″
oil on panel

 

 

Interview with ERIC WERT:

Your childhood ambition:

To be a herpetologist.

Something you treasure:

My health.

Your worst habit:

Horror vacui.

The aspect of your work that’s most important to you:

Same as above.

Your first job:

Specimen preparator at a museum. Really, I would have paid them.

Someone whose work you highly recommend:

Rachel Ruysch.

 

See more of Eric Wert’s work here.