Stone Age Inspiration

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Before the Ice Age, before even the first flowering plants had finished reshaping the Earth, great herds of dinosaurs wandered a world ruled by ferns, cycads, and endless green. In this painting, we meet one of the most iconic — and misunderstood — of those ancient giants: the Iguanodon (Iguanodon bernissartensis).

This Late Cretaceous herbivore, discovered in the early 19th century, became one of the very first dinosaurs to be named and scientifically described. Early reconstructions, much like the one captured here, often depicted it as a towering, semi-upright creature — a gentle colossus balanced between reptile and mystery. Though we now know Iguanodon moved primarily on all fours, this classic pose remains a powerful reminder of the dawn of paleontology, when science and imagination first intertwined.

The scene evokes a humid, prehistoric world — lush with cycads and tree ferns, rivers glinting under a heavy sky. The green Iguanodon stands watchful near the water’s edge, while its companion grazes calmly beside it. Together, they seem both alien and familiar — reminders of nature’s ability to evolve endless forms, yet maintain a sense of grace and design throughout time.

With its distinctive thumb spikes — used perhaps for defense or foraging — Iguanodon thrived in herds across ancient Europe, feeding on the low vegetation that blanketed floodplains and deltas. It was a creature built for endurance, balance, and adaptation — traits that echo the timeless rhythms of evolution and creativity itself.

This artwork is not just a reconstruction of prehistory — it’s a celebration of imagination as science, of art as the bridge between ancient worlds and our modern fascination with them.

“Timeless Design… Since the Dawn of Time.”

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Before the first artist carved lines into bone or painted a bison across a cave wall, the Ice Age world belonged to the mammoths. Towering and wool-covered, these ancient giants — known scientifically as Mammuthus primigenius — roamed the vast grasslands and tundras of the Pleistocene epoch.

In this artwork, we see the mammoth in its prime: heavy-footed yet graceful, draped in a thick coat of rust-red fur adapted for the freezing winds of prehistoric Eurasia and North America. Its great spiraling tusks curve forward like the arcs of frozen moons — tools for foraging through snow and weapons for dominance in the herd’s ancient hierarchy.

Behind the main bull, two others move slowly across a windswept plain, their silhouettes fading into a pale blue horizon. The golden grasses ripple beneath them, hinting at a short summer before the world again froze into silence. It is a moment of both vitality and fragility — a glimpse of a species that would one day inspire the earliest human imagination.

The mammoth’s form became an icon of survival and power for our Paleolithic ancestors. Their bones were used to build shelters, their tusks carved into tools and ornaments, and their image etched deep into cave walls like those of Rouffignac and Les Combarelles. The mammoth was more than a creature — it was a muse, a symbol of endurance in an unforgiving world.

This painting celebrates that connection — the meeting of natural history and art — a reminder that the roots of creativity stretch back to an age when humankind and megafauna shared the same wind and the same earth.

“Timeless Design… Since the Dawn of Time.”