Ana Bikic has been painting reefs for many years, committed to bring awareness to the public through expressing the beauty and treasures we are losing on a daily basis. She believes artists have a moral responsibility to inspire and encourage others to be protagonists for our natural wonders.

Ana Bikic was given the Golden Dolphin Award for 2009 by the international divers X-Ray Magazine, she lives in South Florida and exhibits locally and internationally. Her reef paintings are included in Governor Bush’s private collection and in her country of origin, Argentina.

Apollo is one of the World's Leading Environmental Artists. Apollo started painting dolphins and whales when he first moved to Maui in 1980. Since that time, he has developed a worldwide following and has had the privilege to work with several environmental groups and zoos to raise both funding and awareness. Apollo's images of dolphins and whales have been used for promotions and products for Fortune 500 Companies such as McDonald's (phone cards), Pacific Life Mutual (Annual Report), Hilton Corp (Dolphin Days), Crabtree Publishing (books on whales and dolphins), the Miami Dolphins (30th Anniversary 1972 Super Bowl Champs 17-0), AT&T plus more!

Apollo is best known for his Marine Life, Endangered Species, Endangered Habitat and Tropical Art. He combines the style of realism with a touch of animation. Apollo captures the essence of spirit in his subjects and reveals their beauty on canvas.

Barbara and Larry Domsky have collaborated in business and life since their first meeting in 1990. Each coming from their own diverse artistic background, they blended their talents and experience as professional artists to form Domsky Glass. Experimenting with many techniques in glass working, they are self taught in the medium of hot-glass and fusion. Together they have developed innovative techniques and a diverse style of glass making for which they have become well known. Their signature sculpture is collected throughout the Untied States and internationally.

Within the Domsky’s 5,000 square foot studio in Las Vegas, are three fully-equipped studios; two devoted to the creation of glass works (hot-glass and glass fusion) and the other dedicated to artistic metal fabrication.

“Our approach with each commission and each client is always custom tailored to their needs. We consider and respect the space, lighting, budget, environment, style and audience of each job we design and create for. Our commitment to our clients begins with the first meeting and continues throughout the design, fabrication and installation process, and as needed thereafter. It is this respect to our clients and our craft that has allowed us to pursue our passion for creating and succeed as professional artists”.

The Domsky’s careers have included both large scale installations and gallery collections. Their fine art glass and artistic metal work is commissioned by private residences and corporations throughout America and Internationally. Collections are located in New Zealand, Germany, Sweden, Africa, India, Australia, Mexico, Taiwan, and throughout the United States.

Carlos Hiller, 37, is an artist dedicated to creating paintings of magnificent underwater seascapes.  He has travelled extensively throughout Latin America, finally settling down in Costa Rica, where he has been able to specialize in the waters of the Pacific Ocean and the animals that reside there. His art has quickly attracted collectors' attention due to his laboriously exquisite technique, which he studied from ancient masters through personal research and added the benefits of new modern materials. His art is periodically exhibited in Europe, North America and Latin America. He has decorated luxury boats and exclusive high-end residences with both murals and paintings. He has been commissioned by Middle East countries, been published in several books and magazines, and has created several magazine covers. But what really fulfills him is the possibility that, through his art, he is helping to educate and raise awareness about environmental issues affecting our oceans.  He does this by creating public murals and art auctions for environmental campaigns and promoting art in both the local community and abroad. Carlos Hiller lives in Costa Rica, near the ocean.

I am an Australian artist and journalist, living in London. I specialize in painting and writing about the natural world. I grew up in Sydney, Australia where I was fascinated by the tropical fish that swam down to Sydney harbour from tropical Queensland before Christmas every year; the purple neons were my favourite fish. I also love the carpet sharks-the wobegongs that hide in the rocks.

Jerry Venditti is best known for his Southwestern art; locally inspired commissioned works are to be seen in wine tasting rooms, such as the Kendal Jackson Hospitality Center, and in numerous corporate and private collections. Jerry Venditti is represented by Heritage Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona and Mountain Trails Galleries in Jackson, Wyoming. Jerry is an award winning Signature Member of Artists for Conservation.

My current painting project is “Liza’s Reef”, a ten-year series of paintings of an imaginary coral reef that began in 2005. My work is a fusion of realism and fantasy, and my focus as an artist is to use my art to help protect endangered oceanic habitats, especially coral reefs from further destruction, and to raise awareness of the environmental issues facing us all. My paintings are all acrylic on canvas, finished with Soluvar varnish, and are done in two stages, the first is horizontal work with the canvas laid flat, using diluted, highly viscous paint and then vertically with the painting on an easel where more detail and figurative work is added. I name each piece only after it is finished. My work is in hundreds of private and corporate collections.

I’ve been using a camera almost my whole life to capture what I think are either nature’s best side or worst side. Trained by my father at the age of 8, I still use some of his cameras whilst I shoot. I relocated to the west coast in 2005 and got certified to dive 3 months later, advanced certified 2 months after that, and scuba master certified a year later. I began shooting underwater almost immediately with a 3.1 mp camera and slowly graduated to using my DSLR under the sea.

Over the past 4 years I’ve been published in the Underwater Photo Magazine based out of England 4 times, and reviewed equipment for Akona. I’ve placed in the top 4 positions of DigiDiver.net’s weekly international theme of the week contest 5 times and have had images selected to be used in the 2010 National Wildlife Federation’s Calendar. Most recently I had an image used in a presentation to Congress for IFAW’s Tails For Whales campaign. I can be seen shooting pro bono for events at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles.

Marine life artist Wyland has earned the distinction as one of America’s most unique creative influences and a leading advocate for marine resource conservation. An accomplished painter, sculptor, underwater explorer and educator, he has traveled the farthest reaches of the globe for more than twenty-five years, capturing the raw power and beauty of the aquatic universe.

He is perhaps best known for his monumental Whaling Wall mural project — an epic series of life-size marine life murals that spans fourteen countries on four continents and is viewed by an estimated 1 billion people every year. The artist’s efforts for conservation awareness, moreover, have been recognized by the United Nations, Sierra Club, Rotary International, the Underwater Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he is listed among its Diving Hall of Fame, and private and public institutions throughout the world.

Hailed a "Marine Michelangelo" by USA Today, Wyland’s work is sought by millions of collectors and his equally successful Wyland Foundation, in partnership with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is actively engaged in teaching millions of students around the world to become caring, informed stewards of our oceans, rivers, lakes, streams, and wetlands.

Internationally recognized as an official artist for the 2008 United States Olympic Team, he has been further honored in the Guinness Book of World Records, Who’s Who in American Art, the U.S Department of Commerce / NOAA’s 200th Anniversary Celebration, the Natural World Museum’s "Art In Action" Campaign, and many national and international publications. His final 100th Whaling Wall, a 24,000 square foot series of murals with student artists from 110 countries, was displayed in October 2008 at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and honored by the National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, White House Council on Environmental Quality, and the U.S. Department of the Interior. The multi-faceted artist has hosted several television programs, including, "Wyland: A Brush With Giants" on the Discovery Channel’s Animal Planet Network and "Wyland’s Art Studio", a new series for public television. Today, he is considered one of the most influential artists of the 21st Century, with artwork in museums, corporate collections, and private homes in more than one hundred countries.