John Banovich - Memory of a Lost Love

From there, I traveled to the mountains of the Virunga volcanoes and sat with a family of the rarest of all the gorilla species, the mountain gorilla. The leader of the group, the silverback, sat with something heavy on his mind and the idea for my newest gorilla painting was born in that contemplative moment.  In this painting the silverback has just picked a Pyrethrum flower (grown in Rwanda as a natural insecticide). In this profound moment he sits alone with his thoughts.