LANEY is a naturalist wildlife artist and photographer. She has spent a lifetime in art, first majoring in commercial art at Denver University. Her first job was in scientific illustration for biology texts published by the National Science Foundation, and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, and then as sole artist and illustrator for college texts books published by New York publishing houses.

Moving to Wyoming in 1970, she spent seven years as the Northern Plains Regional Representative for the Sierra Club, covering the states of Wyoming, Montana, North and South Dakota and Nebraska. Returning to fine art, her specific interest is naturalist art, a separate branch of animal and wildlife art. It involves in-depth study of animal behavior and natural habitats, including vegetation and geologic formations, clouds, plants, and water. The paintings encompass a whole story about the animal and its habitat. This art is specifically directed toward involving the viewer in a scientific representation, and story about animals and land and environmental quality.

Originally from Colorado, Laney has been in the Wind River Valley for fifty years and lives on Dry Creek near Crowheart, Wyoming.
She is a founding member of the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole and has exhibited in many shows at the museum, most notably, Darwin’s Legacy in 2013. Her new Bighorn Sheep painting, “Sunrise”, was installed in June of 2018, as the center attraction in the main building at the Wyoming Whiskey Mountain Conservation Camp. She is Signature and Distinguished member of the Society of Animal Artists and a Signature and Master member of the American Women Artists.

In May 2016, her book, To See Beyond Looking, was released. It is a life history of a naturalist artist.
Contact information can be seen on her web site, sunnybankstudio.com.