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OPS Feature Artist
Inspiring conservation and awareness through art
OPS is often approached by artists around the world seeking to contribute to both OPS’ mission and public awareness about issues such as wildlife conservation, climate change, and protecting oceans and marine life.
In response, we are launched our ‘OPS Feature Artist’ partnership program that features a different artist on a rotating basis. A few times a year, OPS will highlight the work of profiled artists, showcasing their artwork to motivate and ignite the activist in each of us.
OPS believes in the power of art and imagery. By featuring the amazing artwork of ‘artivists’ around the globe, we are committed to inspiring individual action and fostering collaborative solutions to the Planet’s most pressing issues.
All media and artistic platforms are invited for consideration.
Contact us to become the next OPS Feature Artist.
Mahdhav Sarna’s work is not intended to be a portrait of an animal; instead his mission is to convey a glimpse, a momentary pause from the life of that being. Together with an original piece of emotionally charged poetry, a voice is given to this moment, to this soul.
Using a combination of original poetry and richly visual artworks, he hopes to explore the deeper connections that run spiritually, emotionally and experientially between all beings; with a goal to help motivate a new perspective of care, awareness and respect for our planet’s wildlife.
Wendy Tillett is a Montreal-based artist creating vibrant, colorful, attention-grabbing nature and conservation inspired canvases. Wendy was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and began to paint at the age of two, alongside her artist-mother, Maggie. Wendy is passionate about the Earth and environment and has an extreme love and compassion for all creatures, great and small. In particular, Wendy enjoys a relationship with the ocean, both above and below, as a competitive Stand-up-paddle boarder (SUP) and lover of all aquatic citizens. Wendy applies this passion not only to the way she moves through life but also to her colorful works – intended to open the eyes of her audience and to make them more sensitive and conscious towards endangered species, the climate crisis, and plastic pollution.
Kelly Quinn is a Florida-based artist and illustrator who spent her childhood exploring the wildlands of the Sunshine State. Inspired and mission-driven with a passion for education and storytelling, she strives to achieve both through her vivid art and imagery. Kelly’s art career, rooted in a curiosity of the world around her, was cultivated at an early age through pencil and paper until she began painting in early middle school. After graduating from the University of Florida, she dedicated her personal and professional life to sharing the stories of science and the natural world through vibrant paintings, art classes, and other community outreach.
Kelly’s mission is to experience and share the stories of nature to connect people more deeply with the environment so that they can become passionate advocates for the protection and restoration of our planetary home for the next generation.
Emma Skinner is a British-born artist whose visual narratives and free diving expeditions explore the human experience of the ocean. From a very young age, she cultivated her strong affinity for animals and the sea, and as an adult has complemented her art through involvement with rescue and rehabilitation of marine life. By channeling her passion for painting and ocean wildlife, she hopes to create meaning and purpose by opening the conversation about the power of conscious consumers and positive environmental impact.
Ashley Habernal is a self-taught wildlife artist residing in Ontario, Canada. She works in several mediums such as colored pencils, ink, watercolor, acrylic and pastels, but her favorite and signature method of creation is with fine liner pens. Depicting marine megafauna, such as whales and sharks, is Ashley’s specialty and passion.
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