My daughter Meg asked me to piece an art mosaic of only animals. Unknown to her, I had already started gathering hundreds of different animal images to create one for her as a gift! In Meg’s Animal Board you will find a variety of animals as well as art periods. Read to the end, and you will also find out about the girl who inspired it and our own animals who went before the development of this art piece. 

The elephants are quite amazing here, and the birds are varied and interesting.  There is a wonderful mother octopus with her tentacle arm around her baby octopus in the upper left as well as a design from surfaces found at the Pompeii ruins. You will see fierce and predatory animals as well as cute and adorable. There is even a dodo bird found with a bit of a search. This paper tile mosaic features animals within artwork from the earliest centuries through the late Renaissance art period. Few humans are featured, though some are included where they are part of the story or where it would have looked more awkward to slice them away from the animal in the artwork.     

I tried to include as great a variety as I could fit in of detailed visual animal description on Meg’s Animal Board from the art periods I work with. Snarling and savage is in close proximity to purring and precious; delightfully imagined is depicted as well as strikingly real. This is a board to be enjoyed by all ages, whether in now grown-up Meg’s office, above the fireplace in a nature-loving family’s TV room, or in a child’s bedroom. 

Meg’s degree is in Wildlife Biology, and she has always loved the fullness of nature’s expression. Dogs are the main animals in her life now, but growing up she and her siblings had a tortoise, mudskippers, a hedgehog, parrots, fish, hermit crabs, and of course cats and dogs. Countless other tadpoles, butterflies, salamanders, snails, and interesting bugs were brought home to observe for a day or two before releasing.  

Meg’s Animal Board was the first item in my secular line. She has the original, and we both enjoy thinking about the like-minded others who also appreciate this animal grouping. Paper giclée prints are available for this artwork in two different sizes.