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
