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Huish Cleeve Cottage
Huish Champflower
Taunton
Somerset
TA4 2HA
hilaryburn@fireflyuk.net
Hilary
Burn was born in Macclesfield,Cheshire, the home town of Charles Tunnicliffe,
and grew up with a fascination for wildlife, particularly birds. After
graduating in Zoology and teaching Biology for a few years she began natural
history book illustrating and selling some bird paintings.
She was
elected to the SWLA in 1983 and exhibited successfully at the Mall for many
years.
In the
late eighties and nineties she became heavily involved with illustration work
including 'Wildfowl',' Crows and Jays', Birds of the Western Palaearctic and
then the sixteen volume Handbook of the Birds of the World and found little time
for paintings, which is why these photos are not of recent work .As the HBW
project comes to an end in 2011, she hopes very much to then return to more
freestyle work.
She paints
in gouache in her studio at the country cottage in West Somerset, where 'the
wildlife walks and flies past the window', with her husband, two cats, three
alpacas and four chickens.
Long-Tailed Ducks off Iceland
Gouache
Parrot Plate
for Birds of Peru 2007
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