Artist Terry Isaac is a native northwesterner.  Living in the Willamette Valley of Oregon between the Cascade Mountain Range and Pacific Ocean, he paints the wildlife and landscapes of the western United States.  Although Isaac received a formal art education, graduating with honors, he believes his best training has come from being outdoors and from studying the work of his favorite wildlife artists.  In the last few years, Isaac has placed in 12 stamp and print competitions.  He enjoys participating in these state and national fish and waterfowl stamp and print competitions because they require high standards of painting technique, design, animal anatomy and habitat.  Isaac has been selected to participate in several important art exhibitions, including the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum's prestigious "Birds in Art" exhibitions.  He was also commissioned to produce 14 waterfowl drawings for the Audubon Bird Handbook, published in 1987.

Terry Isaac's captivating scenes of nature are rendered in acrylics.  Terry's art is the subject of the book, Painting the Drama of Wildlife, Step by Step, published by North Light Books.  Terry's art is also featured in Painting Birds Step by Step (cover/North Light Books, 1996), The Best of Wildlife Art (cover/North Light Books,1997), and, More Wildlife Painting Techniques of Modern Masters (Watson-Guptill Publications, 1996).

Terry was the 1998 Pacific Rim Wildlife Art Show Artist of the Year and was 1998 Florida Wildlife and Western Art Expo Artist of the Year.  The source of his inspiration is often as near as his own backyard, where he delights in watching the birds that have been the subject of many of his paintings, saying, "To be a good artist, you need to be a good observer."