Christopher Marley is an artist based in the US state of Oregon. He immortalises reptiles, insects including butterflies, and a range of other creatures in his framed artworks, capturing their natural beauty. The vertebrates that he uses in his work, such as reptiles and birds, have all died from natural causes. The invertebrates, such as insects, are collected from the wild however, for reasons that he is perfectly happy to justify and talk about.
All pieces shown on his website are three-dimensional real specimens, hermetically sealed in specially designed, hand-made frames. You might wonder what drove Christopher to start framing bugs, reptiles, fish, crustaceans, and other delights of nature?
He explains: “I have been a lover of animals and an artist from my earliest days, but I found that certain…