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Barry Kent MacKay
31 Colonel Butler Drive
Markham, ON L3P 6B6
Canada
Mimus@Sympatico.ca

My background includes both museum-style preparatory work and wildlife rehab, and so I seek to show birds in lifelike posture, but I also am fascinated with seldom illustrated species, races and plumages, provided sufficient reference material is provided. I dislike the dichotomy separating "paintings" from "illustrations" and seek to not limit myself to one or the other, but in balance I'm happy being considered an illustrator.
Style:

Realism
Media:

Watercolor, Oil, Acrylic, Mixed, Pen & Ink
Preferred species:

All species
Preferred geographic region:

All regions
Preferred use of earlier or new work:
 Generally new work
See also:
published images:


I wrote and illustrated Bird Sounds, published by Stackpole Books in 2001. I illustrated Wrens, Dippers and Thrashers, by David Brewer, published by Helm, also in 2001. My art has been published in various other books, magazines and journals, over a thirty year period, including the Living Bird, Bird Watchers' Digest, National Audubon Magazine, A Field Guide to the Birds of the Galapagos, etc. I am currently illustrating the endemic species and subspecies of Hispaniola for a guide to that island. I am also working on birds of the Canadian arctic for a proposed book on that subject.