Animals & Wildlife

Adrian Tinsley

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Ali McQuail

Ali McQuail was born in Leamington Spa in 1973. From an early age she loved drawing and painting, particularly from nature, and is self-taught. After gaining a degree in Classical Civilization at the University of Leeds, a spell working at a Fine Arts workshop in Wakefield and a couple of years teaching English in Italy, Ali returned to the UK to work at the University of
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Amanda Clark

Amanda Clark's paintings are a rich tapestry of colour inspired by the English countryside, myths and folklore. Her paintings have another wordly presence within a comtemporary style that is almost reminiscent of fairytales. Amanda Clark comes from an artistic family and has painted professionally for 15 years, her work can be found in private collections
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Annora Spence

Born in 1963 Annora Spence studied printed textiles at Liverpool Polytechnic during the early 1980’s and continued her further education by completing an MA in the same subject at Birmingham Polytechnic. Having completed her studies Annora worked as a freelance artist and designer. Since 1990 she has concentrated on her career as a painter and has enjoyed sell-out shows in
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April Shepherd

April Shepherd is an established British sculptor producing highly expressive works exploring movement and the natural world. Her sensitive yet unsentimental animal studies have won her considerable acclaim, with the horse in particular being her main subject matter. Her concepts are often enriched by her love of literature, folklore and mythology. April's smoke fired horse
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Archibald Thorburn

Archibald Thorburn was born in 1860, near Edinburgh. From an early age he painted birds, animals and flowers but he specialised in the study of game birds, because he had a tremendous knowledge of ornithology. His reputation was firmly established by his contribution to Lord Lilford's magisterial survey 'Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Isles', which was published
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Becky Mair

Becky Mair was born in Chatham, Kent. At the age of ten her Father moved abroad and started working in the Middle East and Africa. Becky then spent the next 15 years commuting between England and where her parents were living. In 1985 having completed a foundation course at Canterbury College of Art, moved to live and work in London. In 2004 Becky completed a BA Honours
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Bryan Collins

Bryan collins trained at Wolverhampton University, he worked in television and also as a lecturer in art. Now a full time sculptor his work is varied and his series of lovers are amongst the most popular sculpture. His skill is wide however and his range has included a highly sought after figure of Elvis Presley, sadly now not avaialbale.
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Carl Brenders

Carl was born near Antwerp, Belgium, and has drawn since childhood. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Antwerp and later at Berchem. He has produced wildlife illustrations for more that 20 books in a series entitled The Secret Life of Animals. Carl has been included in the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum's prestigious "Birds in Art" show regularly; he also exhibited in
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Carol Gillan

Carol Gillan was born in Lancashire in 1961 and studied art in Brighton. After working as an illustrator on a variety of projects she finally decided to devote herself to a career as a full time fine artist. Now based in Surrey she paints from a studio in her home and specialises in dramatic and humorous animal portraits. Carol Gillan's work has been exhibited widely across
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Catherine Binne

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Daniel Smith

Wildlife ArtContemporary ArtWork By Daniel Smith African Tempest Hot Shot - Cardinal In Your Face On the Rise - CanvasbacksArtist ProfilesDaniel Smith Daniel Smith, one of America's foremost nature artists, enjoys wide acclaim for his spectacular depictions of landscapes and wildlife. Smith lives in the mountains of southwest Montana where artistic inspiration
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David Dancey-Wood

David Dancey-Wood is one of the leading pencil artists in the United Kingdom, specialising mainly in wildlife subject matter. He was born in Bristol and studied at the Bournemouth and Poole Faculty of Art and Design for four years before launching into a career to develop his own unique artistic talents, alongside raising awareness of conservation issues around the
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Dominique Salm

Dominique Salm was born in Jamaica in 1972, where she spent her early childhood before relocating with her family to Hampshire. Having always been passionate about art and wildlife, Dominique Salm completed an illustration degree and went on to combine her love of both, to build a reputation nationally and internationally as a skilled wildlife artist. Having painted a wide
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Gary Benfield

Gary Benfield was born Birmingham in 1965. Gary Benfeild studied at Stourbridge college of Art and later Wrexham college of Art. He became a professional freelance illustrator in 1986 and joined the Artist Partner Group. After leaving the academic world Gary Benfield set up his own studio near London and concentrated on drawing figures. Within a few years his work was
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Gary Hodges

Hodges was born in 1954, and has had a deep love for nature since childhood. In 1979 he began applying his keen sense of observation to his drawings and is now Britain's leading wildlife pencil artist. Gary Hodges drawings stand out from the crowd because he combines a remarkable technical ability with a deep feeling for the subject and a sensitive understanding of its
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George Wilkinson

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Guy Coheleach

Guy Coheleach Guy Coheleach has a gift for painting character, motion and life into his wildlife subjects that is matched only by his thirst for adventure. A fellow of the prestigious Explorer's Club and the youngest member ever admitted to the Adventurer's Club of New York, Coheleach has been chased by elephants and has tracked eagles, lions and rhinos all over the world.
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Harriet Dunn

Harriet Dunn is entirely self taught and uses her love of the natural world to create bird and animal sculptures. Her very clever dog sculptures which we show capture all the doggy mannerisms that we
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Huw Williams

When equestrian artist Huw Williams and his wife Jane moved to Scotland in the late 1990s, they were the first couple ever to appear on the hit television programme 'Location, Location, Location'. Huw had grown up in North Wales, studied for a Degree in Art Illustration at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and lived in Leicester and Manchester, and the time felt right to
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James Stockton

Born and brought up in London, James Stockton became interested in wildlife through family holidays spent on his grandparents’ farm in North Wales. His father, himself a talented amateur artist, took him out for long walks through the beautiful local landscape with a sketchbook, and encouraged him to draw the plants and animals they saw on their travels. James Stockton was
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John Arthur

John Arthur was born and brought up in the English market town of Dorking. After leaving school he trained to be a carpenter, following a tradition that had run in his family for generations. While he enjoyed the work however, John felt that something was missing in his life, and that the only way to fill this void was to travel. He therefore worked hard, saved hard and put
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Jonathan Sanders

Jonathan Sanders has been drawing and painting since he was a child, but it was only after finishing his art degree that the adventure of travel began to inspire his work. Jonathan craved to see Africa and it's people as well as experience the wildlife and landscape. From his studio in the South West of England, inspired by his travels in Tanzania and Kenya, Jonathan's work
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Jonathan Truss

Jonathan Truss has always had a fascination for wildlife and his early career as a professional musician and actor complimented his love of oil painting. His works sell well through major wildlife art auctions, exhibitions and galleries both in London, the U.S.A. and Africa. Recent work, which is always in demand, has also gone as far a field as India and New Zealand. His
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Juliet Collins

Juliet Collins works from her studios on the Isle of Wight. After visiting Africa she now specialises in African wild life which she produces with considerable skill. Generally she produces original work in fired clay but we have been fortunate to be able to offer the Elephants featured in the Natural World Section as well as two ponies she knows on the Isle of
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Karen Laurence-Rowe

Karen Laurence-Rowe was born in Uganda, daughter to a civil engineer. Living a nomadic existence – her childhood years were spend trailing across eastern Africa watching her father carve roads into a land teaming with game and sweeping landscapes – an Africa virtually unspoiled in the early sixties. Karen has lived in various African countries, but for the last 20 years
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Kate Fensom

What started as a three week holiday turned into a pivotal moment in Kate Fensom's life. She came back to England kindling a small spark about becoming an artist. Returning to the country that had fired her imagination Kate Fensom began to paint, inspired by the magic of the Mediterranean, by October 2002 she had enough paintings to hold her first exhibition at the Dome Hotel,
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Kim Donaldson

Acclaimed wildlife artist Kim Donaldson's masterful renderings bring the untamed spirit and breathtaking beauty of endangered African animals to life. Born in Zimbabwe in 1952, the artist was raised on a farm where he developed a keen knowledge and love of nature. His artistic talent, apparent at any early age, was nurtured by his teachers and he was encouraged to pursue a
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Lesley Thiel

Lesley Thiel is a renowned Equestrian artist. Born and educated in England, she has spent most of her adult life in Germany, Switzerland and the USA. Having originally trained as a scientist working in medical research, Lesley Thiel descovered her love of horses while visiting a friends Stud in the United States. Despite her early love of painting and drawing, Lesley Thiel
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Louise Peterson

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Madeleine Floyd

Madeline Floyd was born in 1969 and is one of Britain's best loved illustrators and painters. She is best known for her drawings of animals and people that combine a timeless sensitivity with a gentle humour. Madeline Floyd has an unusually borad talent, minimalist line drawings hang beside evocative watercolours of nudes and still lives whilst oil paintings take their
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Mandie Haywood

Mandie Haywood has always had a great passion for wildlife. Even from the age of five she was writing and illustrating her first set of animal books. Throughout Haywood's teenage years she did a lot of sculpting and studied photography which proved invaluable, as she has had many commissioned photo shoots from private portraits to live concerts. After leaving school
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Mandy Shepherd

Mandy Shepherd is one artist who simply doesn’t hang around! Her contagious vitality, enthusiasm for life and sense of humour have all contributed to a career that has produced ambition for opportunity. Her portfolio is one of striking contrasts. From proud portraits to delicate watercolours of her wildlife subjects to heavy battleships on military manoeuvres she is one of few
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Mary Ann Rogers

Mary Ann Rogers has consistently been in the top 5 published artists according to the Fine Art Trade Guild. Mary Ann is a self-taught artist who began painting at a very early age and has become one of the most acclaimed watercolour painters of her subjects in Britain. Her stunning countryside studio, made famous by a T.V. documentary, allows her to paint her subjects
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Matthew Hillier

Matthew Hillier Matthew Hillier's extraordinary wildlife paintings offer the viewer a unique vantage point. His paintings express more than the physical characteristics of a species; they reveal something of its personality. Now living in the U.S., Hillier was born in Buckinghamshire, England, in 1958 and grew up near Windsor Castle. Drawing and painting animals is
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Michael Forbes

Michael Forbes was born in 1968 and brought up in the Scottish Highlands where he still lives today. He describes Scotland as the part of the world that fires his desire to paint. It is also where surrealism was born. His work is sometimes surreal and often absurd but usually with a twist of humour to it. Michael Forbes began life as a professional artist after leaving school,
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Michelle Scragg

Michelle trained at Glasgow School of Art as a textile designer. After graduating she worked as a colourist for Osborne & Little. However, painting soon became her passion and has remained so for 20 years. Michelle describes herself as a colourist and it is this exploration of colour that has taken her creative skills on an abstract
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Neil Marsh

Neil Marsh started out in the world of Marketing where he graduated from North London Polytechnic with an honours degree in Business studies. It was only later on in life that he discovered he had an eye for art. During a long period of illness and inactivity Neil Marsh began to sketch, and this led to the realisation that he had a particular talent in drawing. He applied
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Nigel Hemming

Nigel Hemming is undoubtedly one of the country's most successful animal artists. Born in 1957 in Staffordshire, Nigel Hemming's career has been well documented with transition through the media of watercolour, acrylic, pastel, and finally oil. Although Nigel Hemming initially saw himself as a wildlife artist - ornithological subjects holding a particular fascination for him -
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Paul James

Paul James was born and grew up in Leicestersire. Paul is a self-taught artist who enjoys painting wildlife, animals and landscapes. He started art college but spent most of his time painting and sketching cars at the local Ferrari garage and therefore did not complete the course. Paul James decided to commit his time to painting professionally in 1986 and experimented
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Paul Tavernor

Paul Tavernor was nominated for up and coming best new artist for 2008 by the Fine Art Trade Guild - achieving runner up in his first year in print. Paul Tavernor's distinctive style of painting features animals in movement, or head shots in a variety of charismatic poses. Paul Tavernor aims to convey in his work a real living and breathing world within which animals are
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Pip McGarry

Born in Singapore in 1955, Pip McGarry describes himself as a self taught artist but attributes his natural talent to his artistic family background. Pip McGarry started out in the Civil Service, but after a lengthy career he finally decided to turn his great hobby of wildlife painting into a profession. Working mainly in oils, Pip McGarry's originals have been
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Robert Bateman

Born in Toronto, Robert Bateman has been a keen artist and naturalist from his early days. He has always painted wildlife and nature, beginning with a representational style, moving through impressionism and cubism to abstract expressionism. In Robert Bateman's early thirties he moved back to realism as a more suitable way to express the particularity of the planet. It is this
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Rolf Harris

Born in Perth, Western Australia, Rolf Harris loved to paint from an early age. When asked at Primary School what he wanted to be when he grew up his response was "An artist". After school Rolf became a teacher, whilst continuing to draw & paint at every opportunity. At the age of twenty-two, Rolf Harris moved to London on what was supposed to be a year's study leave,
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Sonia Rollo

Sonia Rollo was born and brought up near Manchester. She attended the University of Glasgow, graduating in 1968 with a degree in Botany. For several years, Sonia Rollo worked as editor of a scientific journal and in 1985 began to study printmaking at Morley College. As a result of her new interest Halfmoon Printmakers was formed with fellow artists Pip Carpenter and Susie
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Steve Peters

Steve Peters was born in 1957. He turned down the opportunity to go to art college and in his wisdom started a carpentry apprenticeship. Steve Peters worked for several years as a carpenter before forming his own sub contracting business. Although his business is very time consuming Steve Peters tries to make time to draw and paint as often as possible. Having been forced
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Steven Townsend

Steven Townsend is a completely self-taught artist of exceptional talent. Born in 1955 Steven is married with four children and currently resides in Lancashire, England. His signed limited editions are one of the most sought after prints on the market, and have become collectors items, all prints are sold out on publication. His first large print format print 'Early Start'
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Susie Perring

Susie went to the London College of Printing in 1963-1967, and then worked as a graphic designer in the 60s and 70s. In 1984, Susie started full time as an artist, specialising as a printmaker in etchings, line and aquatint. Susie also taught print at the LCP and for the Outreach programme of Dulwich Picture Gallery's Education Department. Susie has also been commissioned
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Terry Isaac

Terry Isaac Artist Terry Isaac is a native Northwesterner, living in the Willamette Valley of Oregon between the Cascade Mountain Range and the Pacific Ocean. Isaac paints the wildlife and landscapes of North America. Although he received a formal art education, graduating with honors, Isaac believes that his best training has come from being outdoors and from studying the
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Thomas Meadows

Thomas Meadows is based in Dorset and has had a life long interest in the wildlife. These pieces are hand made by a long established foundry using the ancient lost wax method of production. A choice method of making bronze sculpture for thousands of years. Felted on the bottom to protect
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Thuline

Born 1970 in Bruges, Belgium. In 1993, after finishing her studies in Interior Design in Gent, Belgium, Thuline took a three year break to travel - visiting such countries as the U.S.A., Ghana, and several in Europe. Thuline moved to England in 1996 and combines her passion for painting with raising a young family. “I observe animals; their shapes, gestures and
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Veronica Ballan

Veronica Ballan graduated from Sunderland art college with an upper second in Art, and after taking a post graduate course obtaining a PGCE, taught art in Oldham for 7 years. She then found that her designs were in demand by the staff and so decided to go into self employment as a full time ceramicist. Success put her into the full on demands of production, and she had to
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Vivien Walters

Animals and art have always played a large part in Vivien Walters' life, and following a move to the West Country in 1983 she decided to pursue a full time career as an artist.  A contract with a top agent saw her work published nationally and internationally on a large variety of giftware products, including greeting cards.     "Animals have always been an important
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