Melanie Phillips H.N.D

Melanie Phillips is a professional animal and wildlife artist. She was excepted for one of the few places available on the Natural History Illustration course at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design and trained under a variety of working artists and tutors. 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, also an animal portrait artist.

Melanie joined the team of London art college course artists about 10 years ago and has written and tutored a variety of courses including the young artists courses and the coloured pencil course.

Melanie works full time painting animal portraits as she is commissioned worldwide in a variety of mediums. She uses Graphite Pencil, Coloured Pencil, Pastel and Acrylic however she is best known for her Oil paintings on canvas.