Robin Schiele is an artist who specializes in realistic watercolor portraits of endangered birds and wildlife from Neotropical forests. He spends extensive time observing live specimens and studying museum collections to accurately depict each species' plumage and coloring. His work aims to bring awareness to conservation efforts in Central and South America through exhibitions where a portion of sales are donated to environmental non-governmental organizations.

1. Robin Schiele
Welcome
My work is a result of many years of field observation of birds in Neotropical forests, studying and observing birds and
other fauna and its behavior, as well as spending plenty of time reviewing scientific collections, in order to achieve realistic
portraitures of the species; museum specimens are always consulted, and revised time and time again, so as to better
understand the subject. Live specimens of course have been used when possible, since life is full of surprises.
Life-size painting of the species details special features of plumage and natural coloring.
I hope you enjoy it, as well as I enjoy painting them!
Neotropical Birds & Wildlife

2. Robin Schiele, a Guatemalan born in Nicaragua, has a truly international education. Robin has
dedicated most of his life to the study and portraiture of endangered species of fauna in Central
and South American tropical forests. He has been involved with several conservationist organiza-
tions in the preservation of the natural resources of Guatemala and Colombia.
Robin’s watercolour collection features many endangered, endemic or rare birds from the
Neotropical forests, making a point of painting his subjects life-size focusing in the fine detail of
each species plumage and natural colouring. His singular technique uses watercolours with a
mixed dry-wet brush technique, giving his portraits a very special sharpness regarding colour,
that is difficult to achieve with watercolours. His work is clearly the result of thousands of hours
of painstaking study and examination of the creatures he paints, complemented with his large
experience watching birds and fauna in the field, looking the behaviour and movements of the
animals, making more realistic the final product.
Since 1996 to 2002 he worked for the Alexander von Humboldt Institute in Colombia, where
he made several collections of the Colombian fauna. Also in Colombia he worked with F. G. Stiles
as the illustrator of the book “Aves de la Sabana de Bogotá”, made by one of the main ornitho-
logical associations of Colombia “Asociación Bogotana de Ornitología, ABO”. Recently he illus-
trated a guide of birdwatching localities of Colombia and Guatemala and currently he is working
on produce a series of painting of birds in Nicaragua.
His exhibits are usually made as charities in which a percentage is donated to NGO’s dedicated
to conservation in the Neotropics.
Biography
Robin Schiele, Neotropical Birds & Wildlife

3. Catalogue
Coffee seduction
A typical scene in Central America's lowland coffee plantations. A pair of male manakins
during the harvest season of coffee
Watercolor
32,5 x 28 inches

4. Robin Schiele, Neotropical Birds & Wildlife
The Hermit and the spy...
A Yaguarundi approaches cautiously to the stream but
the Hermit (Phaethornis superciliosus) doesn’t take no-
tice…
Watercolor
32 x 30 inches

5. Catalogue
Andean colors
A pair of Golden Plummed Parakeet (Leptosittaca branickii) overlooking a Black-and-
Chestnut Eagle in a Colombian Andean forest.
Watercolor
20 x 25 inches

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Yellow-eared Parrots
Commission painting for La Esperanza Bird Lodge
& Reserve, Jardín (Antioquia), Colombia. Birds
scale 1:1.
Watercolor
30 x 40 inches

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Wise old Owl sat on a tree…
The Striped Owl inhabits mountain and pine forests from Mexico to Argentina. This
was inspired from a Colombian specimen
Watercolor
30 x 45 inches

8. Robin Schiele, Neotropical Birds & Wildlife
Blue reflections
Flying over a stream a Bat Falcon is looking
for a snack, this Morpho butterfly
Watercolor
39 x 27,5 inches

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San Juan Great Green
The Great Green Macaw is an endangered species that inhabits tropical rain forests
through Central America from Honduras to Panama, and the Choco region of Co-
lombia and Ecuador. This painting was inspired in Rio San Juan, Nicaragua.
Watercolor
40 x 32 inches

10. Robin Schiele, Neotropical Birds & Wildlife
Black-billed Mountain Toucan
A near endemic species, that can be found in the
Andes of Colombia and Venezuela.
Watercolor
40 x 30 inches

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Harpy Eagle
Scale 1:1 watercolor on paper. This is the most powerful eagle in the world, inhabi-
ting neotropical rainforests. My favorite subject!
Watercolor
30 x 44 inches

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Life in the tropical dry forest
In the Forefront a Russet Crowned Motmot
(Momotus mexicanus) is looking at other inhabi-
tants take a nap
Watercolor
30 x 22,5 inches

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South Coast
This is a typical scene in the the Pacific coast of Guatemala: the Violet
Sabrewing is looking for flowers or insects to feed on, while the White-
eared Ground Sparrow is passing by behind the Heliconia flower.
Watercolor
18 x 15 inches

14. Other Works and exhibits
 Artists for Conservation 2015 Exhibit — An International Exhibit of Nature in Art
 Artists for Conservation Signature Member
 Charity exhibit: “Paintings for Nature”, Defensores de la Naturaleza, 2005 & 2009, Guatemala. Contact: Oscar Nuñez
(onunez@defensores.org.co).
 Charity exhibit: “Moments in the life of Neotropical Birds”, University Museum of Natural History. February-March
2007, Oxford, UK. Contacts: George McGavin, (George.mcgavin@university-museum.oxford.ac.uk).
 Prints of Colombian Toucans. 2003. Instituto Alexander von Humboldt, Colombia.
 Charity exhibit: Colombian Toucans. 2003. Gimnasio Moderno, August 2003 Bogotá, Colombia.
 Aves del Neotrópico, Collective exhibit at Cuzco (Perú) IX International Congress of Ornithology, Nov. 2011.
 Several exhibits in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Illustrated books
 Red Data book of the birds of Colombia Vol. 1 (2014) & Vol. 2 (In press). Contacts: Luis Miguel Renjifo
(lmrenjifo@javeriana.edu.co).
 Travel Guide for birdwatching places in Colombia. Proexport Colombia. Contact: Claudia Múnera (rmunera@yahoo.com)
http://www.colombia.travel/en/descargas/Guide-Colombian-Birds.pdf
 Birdwatching Guatemala. Guatemalan Tourism Board (INGUAT), Organization of American States (OAS). Guatemala.
Contact: Claudia Múnera (rmunera@yahoo.com), Jorge Mario Samayoa (jmsamayoa@inguat.gob.gt).
 Birds of Bogota. 2000. Asociación Bogotana de Ornitología, Colombia. Contacts: F. Gary Stiles (fgstilesh@unal.edu.co).
 Colombian birds of prey. 2006. Instituto Alexander von Humboldt, Colombia (on line at: http://www.humboldt.org.co/
humboldt/homeFiles/inventarios/rapaces_01_01.pdf)
 Red Data Book of the birds of Colombia. 2002. Instituto Alexander von Humboldt, Colombia. Contacts: Luis Miguel
Renjifo (lmrenjifo@javeriana.edu.co).
 National Strategy for the Conservation of Birds in Colombia. 2000. Instituto Alexander von Humboldt, Colombia.
Contacts: Luis Miguel Renjifo (lmrenjifo@javeriana.edu.co).
Robin Schiele, Neotropical Birds & Wildlife
“Moments in the Lives of Neotropical Birds”
The exhibition focuses on threatened species from the Andes Mountains and a third of total sales will be
d o n a t e d t o t h e c o n s e r v a t i on w or k o f t h e B og o t á O r n i t h o l og i c a l A s s o c i a t i on
(Blueprint vol 7, No. 6 February 2007)

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Phone: +505-22657916
email: robinschiele@yahoo.co.uk
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