British Wildlife Artist Alan M Hunt began painting at the age of eight, when his mother gave him a box of paints to occupy him as he recuperated from an illness, double pneumonia. He started off painting british garden birds from his bedroom window with his 1937 copy of the Observers Book of British Birds and Archibald Thorburn illustrations, which had fascinated him from an early age. Alan soon moved on to capture the other wildlife and the natural world around him on watercolour paper, board and canvas.
Alan first studied art at the Middlesbrough Art College now Cleveland College of Art and Design, however then decided to study zoology at Leeds College and then Bristol University.
Alan’s first solo art exhibition was held in his home town of Redcar North East of England at the age of 18 and since then his original paintings have been shown in museums, galleries and public and private collections all over the world.