Artist biographies for exhibitors at the World Land Trust gallery.
WLT Gallery Artists
Jan is a self taught artist living in Norfolk. She specialises in studies of wildlife and also domestic and farm animals. Living on the edge of Thetford Forest she has ample opportunity to observe and photograph the w...
Meraylah Allwood grew up in the Norfolk marshes and has worked as an illustrator since 1993. Her painting, shown in the World Land Trust gallery's Open Exhibition 2012, was created for the jacket of the book Animal Wi...
Francesca Armour-Chelu is the daughter of Suffolk artists, Ian Armour-Chelu and Angela Burfoot. After graduating from Goldsmiths, University of London, she returned to Suffolk and has exhibited at the annual Rumburgh...
In 1853 an Austrian printer, Alois Auer, published a book describing a nature printing processes which he had patented in 1852. It was from this publication that the English printer Henry Bradbury learned how to print...
Norfolk based artists, sisters, Kate & Hannah Breach have been observing and painting wildlife for as long as they can remember and have always had a passion for both. Apart from painting individually they have th...
Joe Bunni is a 2011 category winner in the Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Living and working in Paris, his passion is underwater photography and he aims to spend several weeks...
Steve Cale lives and works in North Norfolk, where he indulges his love of bird watching and finds inspiration for his art in the wildlife of the area. Painting in watercolours and acrylics, all aspects of the natural...
A passion for wild places and the creatures that inhabit them have driven David's creativity and inspiration over the past thirty-five years. Through his anatomical training as a taxidermist and meeting eminent field...
Born in the countryside of Hampshire in a area famed for its natural beauty and its naturalists, Eileen Coxon's early surroundings resulted in a lifelong love of the natural world. Eileen trained in Fine Art at Norwic...
Born in Buckinghamshire this self-taught Wildlife Artist uses a highly original and unique mixture of mediums over a detailed engraving on a hardened linen board, which illustrates the profound effect that the early V...
Ortaire de Coupigny lives near the sea in Brittany and is a regular visitor to the fish market in Lorient. He makes moulds of fish which, several stages later, are represented in sardine cans. He is also a portrait p...
Since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 2006, Scottish painter Leo du Feu has worked full-time from his childhood hometown of Linlithgow. Landscape and nature are his chief inspirations and birdlife is incre...
Matt Durran has an international art practice based in London, working within the medium of glass and its applications. His artwork has developed into areas such as innovation and design, medical technology, digital c...
David Feather (1952 - 2005). David was born in Keighley, Yorkshire. He had a lifelong interest in wildlife and became a full time artist in the mid 1980s. His great love of wildlife and careful observation were distil...
Local artist, Yvonne Forster is the first to take up the Student Spot at the World Land Trust Gallery.
Originally from Cumbria, Yvonne settled in Halesworth in 1989 and is now taking a degree in Fine Arts at UC...
Born in Cairo in 1942, Noëlle Francis studied first at Ravensbourne College of Art before completing her teaching training at Cardiff School of Art in 1965. She came to live and work in East Anglia in the early 1970s...
Jason Gathorne-Hardy grew up and lives in Suffolk. He trained as a Zoologist at Oxford University, but his fascination with livestock and wildlife inspired him to experiment in art, initially with wood carving and lat...
An Aquatic Biology graduate and experienced scuba diver, Toby Gibson is passionate about exploring the surreal beauty of our underwater world - from coral reefs in tropical seas to the eerie depths of Welsh quarries....
Most of the works signed by Gould were actually by other artists, and in particular, in his early works, his wife Elizabeth (1804-1841). Gould produced several series of monographs, including European Birds, Toucans,...
Timothy Greenwood was born in Chatham, Kent on 11th December 1947. He trained at the Camberwell School of Art in South London becoming full time artist in 1968. He was a member of the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA...
Ian Griffiths, or just Griff, as he is better known lives and works on the Lizard peninsular in Cornwall. Griff has been exhibiting since 1971, at venues including Whitby Art Gallery, Westminster Hall London, York, Le...
A graphic artist by training (I created the current Wall’s ice cream logo and Formula one motor racing logo). I returned to my roots in Suffolk to paint and sculpt in the landscape I grew up in and love. I work from m...
Local Suffolk-based naturalist, John Harrold is a scientific fellow of the Zoological Society of London and has an impressive history of active involvement with conservation groups, including the RSPB and local Wildli...
Andrew Haslen has lived and worked all his life in East Anglia, and from an early age began painting wildlife subjects. While he prefers using watercolour, he also works with other mediums including oils and is partic...
Ania Hobson is a Suffolk based artist. After graduating in 2011 she now works full time staging her exhibitions and working towards her commissions. Ania specialises in wildlife art and is also a portraitist. She work...
Jan is predominantly a self-taught artist who likes to paint in watercolour, ink, oil and acrylic. She also enjoys very detailed pencil and pastel work. She spends many hours daily on extensive local wild marshes with...
Alan has developed his own approach to painting, without the need for sketching a layout before starting. He prepares a board with great care, smoothing before priming it with three coats of Gesso to make a glass smoo...
Isabel Hutchison is a self-taught artist for whom painting and drawing played an integral part of her childhood. Travel abroad, initially to Australia and Asia, proved a good starting point for Isabel's artistic caree...
Sara Johnson trained in textiles from 1972-76 but became interested in garden design and landscape painting: a dual career that has at its roots in her childhood love of the outdoors and the natural environment. She...
Yvonne is a self taught artist living in Norfolk. British wildlife, particularly the brown hare, has played a major part over the years in the recognition of her ability as an acclaimed artist, along with her interna...
A veterinarian, with a special interest in avians. ‘My practice has been devoted solely to birds for the last 8 years, and prior to that I was a wildlife veterinarian and had a mixed practice for birds and reptiles. I...
Edward Lear (1812-1888) is best known as the creator of The Owl and the Pussycat, and other nonsense verses, but he was also an outstanding illustrator of wildlife.
Using groundbreaking techniques – including d...
Bob Linney has carried out several graphics commissions for the World Land Trust (WLT), beginning with a poster design for the Programme for Belize. Originally trained as a biologist, he continues to take an interest...
Sharon studied Architectural Stained Glass at West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education in Swansea. Specialising in acid etching using traditional methods of the craft, and working with a combination of machine mad...
John Guille 'Johnny' Millais, (1865-1931), was the son of the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. He grew up in Scotland and after a brief career in the army, spent much of his life travelling and painting wi...
Now living on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula in Scotland, the potter Maureen Minchin lived and worked for several years in the Waveney Valley, Suffolk. Maureen studied at the Bath Academy (1973) but gained most of her pra...
William Oliver is a multi-talented conservationist, spending most of his time in the field, mainly working in the Philippines. However, he is also a highly respected wildlife artist and is regularly invited by Jersey...
Peter is well known as a wildlife artist and illustrator. His first love is painting in watercolour; although he also uses oils, produces dry-point etchings and sculpts in clay, when the mood takes him. He has had num...
Bruce Pearson has been fascinated by wildlife and the natural world for 35 years. He has paintings and illustrations in many private collections in several countries, as well as museums and institutions. Former presid...
Andrew Pitt was born in East Anglia and started painting as a child. He has had 18 one-man exhibitions, has written many instructional articles for The Leisure Painter magazine, gives regular talks and demonstrations...
Lesley Pyke 'scratched' a little flower onto a glass in Zimbabwe in 1983 and her life was changed forever. She has been taking commissions and creating her own art glass ever since, running a glass engraving business...
Keith Shackleton is a British artist, born in 1923, who specialises in marine landscapes and wildlife. He was a friend of conservationist and fellow painter Peter Scott and together they visited Antarctica. In 2012 Ke...
Christine Silver has lived most of her life in the East Norfolk and North Suffolk countryside. She has done a variety of artwork and enjoys painting birds and animals in watercolour and acrylic.
South African born Patricia Simons studied art in Durban South Africa and uses mixed media in her work. She loves natural scenes and the excitement of seeing the interaction between nature and the activities of its i...
Susan graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in the late 70's with a degree in Fine Art. Having had an artist mother, Molly Smith, and, now has an artist son, Leo du Feu. Has worked in primary and community education...
Joseph Smit was a Dutch zoological illustrator. He received his first commission from Hermann Schlegel at the Leiden Museum to work on the lithographs for a book on the birds of the Dutch East Indies. In 1866 he was i...
Deceptively simple, Andrew's imagery often uses animals and birds capturing their spirit within an open, vibrant and undisturbed space. In recent years he has exhibited widely, and two solo...
Born in 1960, Andrew Stock was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset. While there he was encouraged in his painting career by the late Sir Peter Scott, the conservationist and artist. Inspired by his love of the natu...
Based in Holt, North Norfolk, David is a professional wildlife photographer with a passion for birds. His images hang in galleries and collections throughout the world, including the Nikon gallery in Japan. David's wo...
Dinny Turner trained in textiles at Chelsea School of Art between 1981 and 1984. She completed many commissioned artworks in London and Europe until 1993, before moving to Norfolk and had a family. She has been a memb...
A follower and admirer of Archibald Thorburns work. Specialising mainly in wildlife subjects he studied and painted birds for many years working with a variety of mediums. Born in Wolverhampton in 1956 he worked in a...
Best known as an illustrator of field guides and handbooks, Ian Willis’s paintings have been used in the Handbook of the Birds of the Western Palearctic – a massive 9 volume series, as well as the four volumes of the...
Lesley Wood lives in the village of Stretton near Warrington in Cheshire. She grew up with a strong love of wildlife, the natural world and photography. She gained an honours degree in Applied Biology in 1986, having...
Martin Woodcock has been a bird and wildlife painter since 1974, when he turned a hobby - albeit a passionate one - into a profession. He has illustrated many ornithological guidebooks and family monographs, and paint...
Based in rural Suffolk this illustrator and artist has been involved in designs and commissions for several significant organisations. She has published a self-illustrated cookbook which includes recipes using veg fro...
Jonathan is self-taught and has been painting professionally for thirty years. Although drawing and painting were always constants in his life he trained in agriculture and worked as a shepherd. The long and happy hou...
Rosemary Zeeman has been producing beautiful, unique silver jewellery for the past 25 years. She is a trained jeweller with a diploma and City and Guilds qualifications. She is a member of the Oxfordshire Craft Guild...
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