My name is Ryan Hopper currently residing in Salem, Oregon graduated from Arizona State University with my BFA in Art Education. I’m from Tuba City, Arizona located on the Navajo Nation. Born and raised on a sheep camp from a family of shepherds, weavers and traditional healers. A lot of my inspiration comes from studying wildlife, landscape artworks and looking at works of art by various different artists from Robert Bateman, Andrew Wyeth and etc. The wildlife art of Bateman is what fuels my appreciation of the wildlife art and Wyeth contemporary paintings that show me they can be seen with an artistic imagination that can be received within a more profound way.