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Welcome to the Chris Shields Portfolio
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Illustrations: Gallery 1 contains a selection of published Wildlife Illustration and Natural History Illustration work commissioned by various publishers for books, calendars, cards, posters, magazines and jigsaws puzzles. The gallery is divided into nine sections; Birds, Insects, Fish, Mammals, Botanical, Reptiles & Amphibians and Invertebrates, although mainly natural history illustration, there are Miscellaneous and Composites sections showing a wide range of other illustration subjects.
Paintings: Gallery 2 displays paintings and drawings covering subjects from wildlife and landscape art to still-life and people. As a wildlife artist Chris has a particular interest in moths and butterflies and always include one in each of his paintings, although they are sometimes very hard to find!
Chris
Shields, artist and wildlife illustrator, was born in Manchester
England in 1954 and graduated from Northwich College of Art and
Design in 1973.
In 1983 after a short career in advertising and commercial art he followed his passion for wildlife and became a self-employed wildlife artist and illustrator, specializing in book illustration.
He spent many years perfecting his
artistic skills and is now regarded as one of Europe’s foremost
Wildlife illustrators; he is also a talented painter of landscapes,
still-life, murals and people. Chris has produced to date in excess
of twenty thousand wildlife illustrations in over 300 books, numerous calendars,
greeting cards, posters and jigsaw puzzles. He has exhibited his
paintings widely in the United Kingdom and China and has paintings
in public and private collections all over the world.
As a wildlife artist &
illustrator he has
work published by many organizations including:
A & C Black,
BBC Wildlife Magazine,
Harper Collins,
Usborne Publishing
and environmental charities such as: WWF (The World Wide Fund for
Nature), RSPB (The Royal Society for the
Protection of Birds), FSC (Field Studies Council) and The Wildlife Trusts.
From wildlife illustrator to tango artist! Another great passion of Chris’ is Tango Argentino, he has been dancing for eight years and teaching tango for five years. Chris taught tango in Shanghai China for two and a half years and is now teaching Tango in Manchester at the Instituto Cervantes. This passion for tango is now beginning to show itself in his paintings and so a new chapter in his career as an artist has just begun!
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