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Dirk Moerbeek
The Netherlands

info@dirkmoerbeek.nl

My passion for birds began when I was a small boy. Much later, in the early 80s, I graduated in ornithology (Ph.D) at the University of Amsterdam. By then a keen birder, I constantly took notes on birds by making field sketches. To improve this sketching into art, I completed a study at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague. Now, my passion for birds is evident not only by my birding, but is also reflected in my paintings, illustrations and field sketches.
Style:

Photorealistic in paintings, realistic in illustrations and loose in field sketches while birding.
Media:

Paintings in acrylic, mostly done with airbrush on linen. Illustrations with brush and water colors or in black-and-white, field sketches with pencil or fine liner, sometimes etchings.
Preferred species:
  
Preferred geographic region:
 Holarctic birds.
Preferred use of earlier or new work:
 Either.
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selected published images:

Birds in Art 2002. Catalogue. Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum. Wausau WI.
N. van Duivendijk. 2002. Dutch Birding Character guide. (in Dutch). Dutch Birding Association. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
L. Gavashelishvili & Z. Javakhishvili. 2002. Raptors of Georgia. (in Georgian). BirdLife ...International. Tbilisi, Georgia.