THE CARNIVORE CLUB

 

The Carnivore Club, acrylic on canvas, 2026. 16" X 24"

In his first ever painting on a black canvas, the artist blends prehistoric life and anachronism into a fun picture of several top carnivore dinosaurs dressed up at a "club house". 

The dinosaurs are dressed in Victorian-era hats while the Tyrannosaurus is wearing a crown, signifying its nickname as the "king of dinosaurs". The club house is set in a stony, cave-like background with a table inside of the sculpture of a dinosaur. The painting is inspired by the "Iguanodon Dinner" on New Year's Eve in 1853, a dinner banquet held by sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, who created the famous archaic dinosaur sculptures at Crystal Palace Park in London, and attended by Sir Richard Owen, the creator of the word "dinosaur". The banner reads "when dinosaurs ruled the Earth" in Latin.

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