Eyes in the Grass - Lion by Robert Bateman

Eyes in the Grass by Robert Bateman available from Prickly Pear Galleries.

Look carefully - very carefully.

 

"A lion can hide in grass scarcely higher than a foot. Their attack technique is a charge from an ambush. The moment before the charge, they are crouched very low, both hind feet on the ground, and both eyes on the subject of the attack. It is this moment that I have tried to capture in this painting. By the time you realize that this is more that just a field of grass, you might be thinking your last thoughts." - Robert Bateman.

 

Print released 2000.