Art

The Mazatlan Bird Festival is proud to announce the enthusiastic participation of San Franciscan artist David Tomb. David has generously provided his extraordinary material for the promotion of the first edition of the festival and his work will be prominently featured throughout the festival. Best known for his portraits of people, the artist is presenting his first non-portrait show in over twenty years. With this exciting departure, Tomb is recreating the sights and sounds of this Sierra Madre region of west Mexico. Review from Ifitshere.Wordpress

Treasures of the Sierra Madre, on loan to the Mazatlan Bird Festival, courtesy of the Electric Works Gallery of San Francisco, and the arttist, David Tomb

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Birds of West Mexico by David Tomb featuring work inspired by Tomb’s birding trips to Mexico and research from the California Academy of Sciences, the University of California at Berkeley and the Los Angeles Natural History Museum.

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Featured in the Flickr slideshow above are paintings by David Tomb inspired by trips to Mexico's northwest and the El Triunfo Reserve in southeastern Chiapas. The bird enthusiast and artist kindly donated the original, and together with the Electric Works Art Gallery in San Francisco, produced 250 limited edition prints (24” x 17”) that are hand signed and numbered by the artist and embossed with the El Triunfo seal .

David Tomb and the Mazatlan Festival Organizing Committee are currently working on a similar arrangement to benefit the Tufted Jay Preserve near Mazatlan with a painting of the highly endemic Tufted Jay. This enigmatic bird is being protected through an environmental easement set up by Pronatura Noroeste and the Ejido El Palmito in Sinaloa. The easement is being facilitated by Sendero Mexico.