The Waterfowl Festival is honored to announce Salado, TX artist Ronnie Wells as the Featured Artist for this year’s 53rd festival and exhibition. Ronnie will exhibit both sculpture and paintings that he has created specifically for this event. His new waterfowl-themed oil painting, “Cans In the Decoys,” will be featured on this year’s Waterfowl Festival poster—and signed and limited to 250 copies.

As a waterfowl and wildlife-centric artist, Ronnie has won numerous awards and exhibited his work in museums and fine art shows across the nation. He won Sculptor of the Year at the Ducks Unlimited (DU) World Wildlife Exposition, was awarded DU’s Texas Artist of the Year three times and has several permanent installations at the National and Regional DU Headquarters.

Ronnie’s monumental bronze sculpture, “Gale Winds and Mallards,” stands at the entrance of National Ducks Unlimited Headquarters in Memphis, TN. Permanent works are also exhibited in the Ducks Unlimited Waterfowling Heritage Center, inside Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid, also in Memphis.