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 prestigious artists. She passed with distinctions and now runs her own successful business as an animal portrait artists along with her partner Nick Beall whom she met at art college, and is also a 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. Due to the success of her own business and her artwork, she now concentrates on the Pet Portrait course and the Young Artist courses she has written and illustrated, to which she devotes a lot of time guiding her students in the right direction.
The majority of her portrait commissions come form America and she enjoys creating portraits 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.
Her website is - www.pet-portraitartist.com
Melanie also enjoys web designing, she designs and maintains her own website along with the London Art College and a string of others. She also runs the only pet portrait and wildlife forum on the internet today. It has over 300 members and it is growing daily. |
