Victoria Times-Colonist Staff Dec 24, 2019 6:00 AM Robert Bateman’s "Observing Christmas" Robert Bateman ...

White-tailed Deer, 23" x 18”, oil on cardboard, 1960. This piece shows the melding of Bateman's experimentation with abstract art and wildlife. (Robert Bateman) ...

VANCOUVER—Wildlife artist Robert Bateman didn’t have to see an oil spill to know what one would look like along his beloved west coast. In his mind, he can see birds soaking in oil spills. And ...

The Robert Bateman Centre, showing more than 160 works and containing education facilities aimed at promoting a love of nature, opened to the public on Saturday, a day after Bateman's 83rd birthday.

There is the behind-the-scenes thrill of peeking at Bateman’s coil-bound, black-and-white preliminary sketches, along with a candid, on-location photo, showing the artist sitting on a rocky shore, ...

Bateman, 94, started painting as a young boy and did his first "serious" painting at age 12 — an image of an elk.

Canadian artist Robert Bateman is known for his realistic paintings of wildlife and nature, every feather and each twig a reflection of what one would see. But he hasn't always painted that way. In ...