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I agree with Daniel Smith and would add John Banovich and the late Simon Combes. I also am impressed with the work of Wilhelm Kuhnert of Germany but have never been able to find his work in the States.

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By pure serendipity, I was sent a cop of Kuhnert's "Maneater" and after some judicious Google-fun, found that the original painting is actually for sale (trunked off the Lewis Drake & Associates website).

Warning - it's messy & graphic.
http://www.sitemason.com/page/drWnaU
Someone with a twisted sense of humor could always get a hi-resolution 8 x10" color laserprinted version and hang the framed result over their worktable.
Or in the kitchen, before anyone else came down for coffee.

See also
http://www.wildlifeart.org/artists/artistDetails/index.php?aID=243

Found this passage relevant and amusing -

If you believe that such man-animal conflicts no longer exist in our ordered and civilized world, consider the following excerpts from a recent report by none other than “National Geographic.”

“The anxiety among these villagers is completely understandable. Not only have lion attacks on people increased dramatically in the past 15 years in Tanzania—with more than 800 incidents resulting in 563 deaths and at least 308 injuries during that time—but almost half of those cases occurred in six coastal districts here in the south. Worse, the district we're in now, Lindi, holds the notorious distinction of being ground zero for Africa's man-eating lion problem. From 2001 to 2004, at least three different outbreaks occurred at the same time in Lindi, meaning three separate roving groups of lions terrorized the district at once. The mayhem left 113 people dead and 52 others severely mauled. After a lull in attacks in 2005, lions are once again engaging in the kind of ominous behavior that residents here remember all too well.”

The report goes on to say, “As lions chase bushpigs into maize fields, they come into contact with another potential food source—the plodding, largely defenseless, and often unaware human. Compared with, say, taking down a 1,500-pound Cape buffalo, attacking and eating a person, for a lion, is a little like Homer Simpson ripping open and inhaling a bag of Cheetos.”

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