This document profiles several artists who focus on nature and wildlife in their work: - Hannah Shepherd is a self-taught artist from England who draws inspiration from her pet reptiles. - Steve Cale lives in Norfolk, England and paints birds and wildlife, drawing from his experiences leading bird tours. - Diana Beltran Herrera creates intricately detailed paper sculptures of birds to represent the relationship between nature and humanity. - The other artists - Brin Edwards, Colin See-Paynton, Joe MacGown, and Zachary Goodson - are also naturalists and illustrators who depict animals, insects, and the natural world through various mediums like wood engraving, painting, and drawing.

1. Hannah Shepherd:
http://www.reptiles.swelluk.com/blog/178/reptile-artist-hannah-shepherd
Hannah Shepherd is a self-taught
artist from Hailsham in East Sussex.
She's been making art daily since
she was in secondary school. Not a
day goes by when she doesn't have
a pen or pencil in her hand.Hannah
has kept reptiles for four years now,
including a snow corn snake, wild
type ball python, California king
snake and two crested geckos. After
studying art in college she decided
to continue making art herself,
enjoying the freedom of being able
to try different things without
having art teachers to answer to!

2. Steve Cale:
http://www.steve-cale-artist.co.uk/artist.htm
Steve Cale lives and works in North Norfolk, where he indulges his love
of bird watching and finds inspiration for his art in the wildlife of the
area. Painting in watercolours and acrylics, all aspects of the natural
world appear in his paintings. He has a particular love of birds, and
leading bird tours around the world offers endless subjects for his
artwork. Steve’s career has taken around the world, including India,
Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, Australia, Sweden, Gambia, Russia, Turkey
and Cyprus amongst other places.

3. Diana Beltran Herrara:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531133/Avian-art-
Incredibly-intricate-colourful-sculptures-birds-
PAPER.html
DIANA BELTRAN HERRERA (b. 1987, Colombia) is a designer and artist that has been working
over the past years with paper as the primary medium in the production of her work. After
graduating from her BA degree in industrial Design at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in 2010,
Herrera realized that she wasn't interested in pursuing a design practice as a life career, as she
was more interested in the theories of understanding of nature and material as an element that
exist around us and is present in an everyday routine. For Herrera, there is a considerable
distance in the relationship between human and nature, and throughout her work, she aims to
repair this relation by producing elements that are constantly removed, altered and forgotten.
Her work is presented as a resistance where those sculptures remain in an ideal state and act
like a model of representation of a reality that doesn’t suffer any change.

4. Brin Edwards:
http://www.the-art-agency.
co.uk/gallery/portfolios/nature/reptilesfrogs/
Born in 1957 I have always been fascinated by the natural world and
have had a compulsion to draw and paint wildlife for as long as I can
remember. My interest in birds probably dates from my early childhood
spent in Singapore where I was captivated by the colourful tropical
species in our back garden. Back in the UK I also recall meeting Peter
Scott at the Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust when I was about ten years old
and his encouraging words for my hamfisted attempt to capture the
likeness of a flamingo in crayons stay with me to this day. I went on to
study Biology and Ecology at University and graduated with vague ideas
of a career in scientific research. However I soon realised that I was
much more interested in the way the natural world looks than in any
theories about how it worked.

5. Colin See-Paynton:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/331859066265384119/
Artist Colin See-Paynton was born in Bedfordshire, but for the last thirty
years he has lived in Berriew, Powys. He is a keen angler and bird
watcher, and as a child he spent much of his time on the banks of the
Great Ouse fishing for chub, pike and silvery dace.
Colin studied at the Northampton School of Art and is regarded as one
of the finest wood engravers working today. He is a Fellow of the Royal
Cambrian Academy, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter
Printmakers and a member of the Society of Wood Engravers. He has
gained international recognition and his engravings are held in many
major collections. His work is based on meticulous observation of the
natural world and yet it has an almost abstract quality within the
intricacy of the patterning and layering of images.

6. Joe MacGown
http://joemacgown.com/InsectDrawings2.html
I was born in Maine on June 21, 1964 and lived there until the age of
ten, at which point my family moved to Mississippi. I spent many of my
young days in Maine collecting insects, exploring the woods, and
drawing everything I could see, including many things that no one ever
sees. When we moved to Mississippi my interest in art and nature
continued. After graduating from High School, I attended the Memphis
College of Art for a while, but decided it wasn't for me. I worked the
night shift at a local grocery and did some free lance artwork on the side
for the next few years. Since March of 1988, I have worked at the
Mississippi State Entomological Museum as a scientific
illustrator/assistant curator.

7. Zachary Goodson
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/zachary-goodson.html
My name is Zachary Goodson and I am an independent figure and
portrait artist attending the Savannah College of Art and Design
majoring in Animation and with a minor in oil painting, when I graduate I
plan to work for Pixar or Disney. I am familiar with various medium such
as charcoal, pastels, pencils, oil, acrylic, porcelain, 3d animation, and
cameras. I also am able to stretch canvases, cut mattes, and make my
own frames as well. I was awarded an Artistic Honors Scholarship to
attend the Savannah College of art and Design based on my portfolio. I
am also experienced in web mastering, and have done so for companies
such as D Box Inc and D & M Commercial Management.