Hilary Burn (born 8 April 1946 in Macclesfield, Cheshire) is an English wildlife illustrator.

Career

Burn is the daughter of Colin Barber, an engineering draughtsman. She attended the Macclesfield High School and studied at the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

where she graduated to

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University o ...

in zoology. From 1968 to 1971 she was a biology teacher at a comprehensive school in

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by popula ...

. In 1971 she began her career as illustrator for natural history books and she illustrated birds in

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. In 1983 she was elected member of the

Society of Wildlife Artists The Society of Wildlife Artists is a British organisation for artists who paint or draw wildlife. It was founded in 1964. Its founder President was Sir Peter Scott, the current President of the society is British artist Harriet Mead. The society ...

. Burn illustrated many ornithological works, including 15 volumes of the '' Handbook of the Birds of the World'' and the ''

Helm Identification Guides The ''Helm Identification Guides'' are a series of books that identify groups of birds. The series include two types of guides, those that are: * Taxonomic, dealing with a particular family of birds on a worldwide scale—most early Helm Guides ...

''.

Selected works

*Handbook of the Birds of the World, Lynx Edicions (1994 - 2011, volumes 2 to 16) *Wildfowl: An Identification Guide, Helm, 1988 *Crows and Jays, Helm *Handbook of Bird Identification, Helm *RSPB Book of British Birds, Macmillan *RSPB Handbook of British Birds *James Eaton, Bas van Balen, N. W. Brickle, Frank E. Rheindt: ''Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago.'', 2016.

References

*Who's who in art. Art Trade Press Limited, 1996. :p 69

External links

Mall Galleries Federation of British Artists Hilary Burn
{{DEFAULTSORT:Burn, Hilary 1946 births Living people Alumni of the University of Leeds Artists from Leeds British bird artists English zoologists People from Macclesfield