Melanie Phillips HND

Melanie Phillips is a professional animal and wildlife artist and studied Natural History Illustration at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design. She passed with distinctions and now runs her own successful business as an animal portrait artists along with her husband Nick Beall whom she met at art college. Nick is also a portrait artist, and tutors the Portraiture course for the college.

Melanie joined the team of London art college tutors about 11 years ago and has written and tutored a variety of courses including the young artists courses and the coloured pencil course.

Melanie and Nick both paint, draw and teach from their cottage studio in the heart of the Welsh countryside along with their rescue dog Tom and rescue chickens too. They work full time painting animal and family portraits and they are commissioned worldwide in a variety of mediums.

Melanie enjoys web design and designs and maintains a few websites including their 4 pet and animal  portrait sites. She owns and runs a well known Pet Portraits and Wildlife Forum which is the largest forum of its kind on the internet with over 600 members.

Melanie also runs the online side of the London Art College. She designs and maintains this website and is the administrator for the London Art College Forum, the College News Blog, and provides technical support for the students.

If you would like to read more about Melanie her website is - www.pet-portraitartist.com