The Artist
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, specialising 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 organisations
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!
Chris may
be contacted by
Email: chris@chris-shields.com
Telephone: 0161-973 2520 or
Mobile Phone: 0776 771 1194
More of
his work can also be seen on his website at: www.chris-shields.com
