Welcome to the new online home of PHILIP SNOW, prolific Painter & Writer on Wildlife & Creation; specifically researching its origins ....
Note lots of work is also found on Facebook: Philip Snow Art; @ https://www.facebook.com/philipsnowart
And there are many of my North Wales Wildlife Sketches (& wlife videos of Otters & Peregrines etc) at Facebook: North Wales Bird & Wildlife pages
Watercolour &Ltd Edition reproduction print A3
(Original Sold, but a scene I paint fairly regularly - with variations!)
*Below:Arctic Terns at Sea(Status as above)
My Gallery Paintings, Book & Magazine etc Illustration & Writings are often based on my (adopted) Anglesey, North Wales, or Scotland & its glorious Highlands & Islands.
As already hinted, many Originals are Sold, but often still liable to be repainted in similar scenes or studies, as many painters do in the perpetual search for a better take on a beloved theme! Although no two can ever be the same.....
They can also be available as ltd prints, like many other Illustrations & Sketches - just ask.
There are also many Prints of other wildlife like OWLS, OSPREYS, or TURTLES & other Turkish wildlife, done especially to help raise money for charities like:
N WALES OWL TRUST, Llandudno; GLASLYN OSPREYS, Gwynedd; & KAPTAN JUNES Loggerhead TURTLES in Dalyan, Turkey.
Barn Owls, A3
A4 ltd ed Print available
My two main books have taken over 20 yrs of research & sketching, the first being one of the most wide-ranging & controversial bird books ever produced:
‘The Design & Origin of Birds’
[DayOne Books UK/USA].
The second, the highly acclaimed
‘Light & Flight – Hebridean Wildlife & Landscape Sketchbook’
[Brown & Whittaker, Mull]:
PLUS: 'Tall Tales from an Estuary' - basically my idiosyncratic update of C. F. Tunnicliffe RA OBE's classic 'Shorelands Summer Diary', largely about the beautiful Malltraeth Estuary right outside my window - but putting it in a global context of changing migration & climate patterns, & human influence etc:
- Lavishly illustrated, its the story of this typical Welsh estuary & its exotic avian visitors from all over the earth, told & pictured by its garrulous guardian & hoary historian, Howell the Heron! He's usually sat by the bridge...It [the book, not the heron] was recently presented to HRH Prince Charles [along with a painting, & print, of Red Squirrels], who later enthused about how much he 'enjoyed the book' & 'lovely paintings'.
Although I have contributed illustrations or painted covers for over 70 Books - incl Collins Field Guides - and many Magazines, Prints, Prints & Cards, Reserve Maps & Leaflets, etc, and contributed Paintings to many top Exhibitions in various countries, 'Tall Tales' is only the 7th Book I have both written & illustrated.... But many more are on the way, including, oh, a million word Trilogy on the end of this particular phase of our Space/Time continuum.....(!)
And other new Philip Snow BOOKS out - soon..ish!:
- NATUREWATCH ANGLESEY
Amberley Books, Due 3/2021.
- BIRDS of ARRAN with John Rhead, 2017 edition..... somewaht delayed?!
- 'OWL BUSINESS' - a children's book with the N Wales OWL TRUST, currently being produced.
Another new book I have recently illustrated, written by Mull & BBC SpringWatch /Autumnwatch, RSPB eagle-man, Dave Sexton, is
'BIRDWATCHING ON MULL & IONA'
[Brown & Whittaker, Mull] ... Originally written by the late Mike Madders, & once again a best seller, featuring one of the very best Scottish islands for eagles, otters & other glorious Scottish wildlife & landscape.
I have also produced, with wildlife film-maker, John Evans, a Wildlife Filming & Painting DVD:
'A Brush with Wildlife'
[currently unavailable].
