Jackie Garner, Wildlife Artist

Biography - 150 words

Jackie Garner is a wildlife artist based in Gloucestershire, England. She exhibits regularly, either individually or with other wildlife artists, illustrators and sculptors. She is particularly inspired by the way wildlife fits in to its environment through repeating shapes and colours

Jackie originally concentrated solely on British wildlife art, but four weeks in the Falkland Islands in 2005 led to a reputation for penguin paintings. In 2008 Jackie also spent six weeks on a research trip in Egypt which will be the basis for illustrating a book on the wildlife art of ancient Egypt. She is also currently authoring and illustrating The Wildlife Artist's Handbook that will be published by Crowood Press in 2013.

Her paintings of wildlife have been shown on BBC television and are held in collections as far afield as the Falklands, Trinidad, Australia and South Africa. Jackie was elected to fellowship of the RSA in 2006.

For further information visit www.jackiegarner.co.uk