1. Jennifer Angus- Jennifer Angus is a professor in the Design Studies department at the
University of Wisconsin
Cornelia Hesse-Honegger -
Born 1944 and raised in Zürich Switzerland with parents, both of them artists and one
sister called Bettina who is an art therapist PHD. Schools in Zürich, New York and Paris.
One year at the school for applied Art in Zürich and an apprenticeship as a scientific
illustrator at the scientific department of the Zoological Museum of the University of
Zürich.
Chris Shields - Chris has produced to date in excess of twenty thousand wildlife illustrations in over 300 books,
numerous calendars, greeting cards, posters and jigsaw puzzles.
Joe MacGown - My interest and emphasis in semi-strange pen and ink drawings has not
dissipated since I began drawing as a young child. I have always had the ability to see
strange creatures and shapes in other things, much like finding shapes in clouds or bark.

2. Eric Peake - Born in Corwen, North Wales, United Kingdom, 1940.Career as a
professional bird artist, specialising in parrots from 1984-2004 and from 2004 to
present specialising in European birds, is now in its 34th year. To date he has
painted over 1300 finely detailed watercolour paintings of birds.
Ken januski - I'm an artist living in Philadelphia, PA, and have studied art at City College of San
Francisco, University of California at Berkeley and Cornell University. I spent my early years as an
abstract artist. I loved the freedom of expression that abstraction offered.
Archibald Thorburn - was a Scottish artist and bird illustrator, painting mostly in watercolour.
He regularly visited Scotland to sketch birds in the wild, his favorite haunt being the Forest of
Gaick near Kingussie in Invernesshire. His widely reproduced images of British wildlife,
with their evocative and dramatic backgrounds, are enjoyed as much today as they were by
sportsmen and bird lovers of a century ago.

3. John Abbot - was an Americanentomologist and ornithologist. He was born on 31 May or 1
June 1751 in London and died on December 1840 or January 1841 in Bulloch County in
Georgia.
Anna Botsford Comstock (September 1, 1854 – August 24, 1930), was an American artist,
educator, conservationist, and a leader of the nature study movement, born in Otto, New
York, to Marvin and Phebe Irish Botsford.

4. William de Alwis (1842-1916) was a Ceyloneseartist and entomologist. With his brother
George (dates unknown), William made a lasting contribution to the knowledge of the
Lepidoptera, butterflies and moths of Ceylon.
Edward Donovan (1768–1837) was an Anglo Irish writer, natural history illustrator and amateur
zoologist

5. Hoefnagel (1575-c.1630), also Jacobus, was a Dutchartist and naturalist noted for his early
illustrations of natural history subjects. He was born in Antwerp.