Mick Loates
Michael "Mick" John Loates (born August 17, 1947 in Orpington , Kent , England ) is a British wildlife and portrait painter .
Life
Mick Loates graduated from Sidcup Art College from 1963 to 1964 . From 1964 to 1966 he studied art at Ravensbourne College of Art . After a brief and sobering foray into advertising, he left London to pursue a career in animal illustration and painting from his former East Sussex studio .
For his pictures, he conducts field studies on the effects of light and shadow on wild animals and water . In addition to painting, Loates participates in bird counts, including the low-water bird population survey in the Kingsbridge Estuary from 1992 to 1994 , and is a conservationist for marine and freshwater habitats. In 1993 he became a vice president of the Kingsbridge and District Natural History Society.
Loates illustrated 22 books, including The Doomsday Book of Animals by David Day (1981), Ingenious Insects by Anthony Wootton (1983), Salar the Salmon by Henry Williamson (1987), Go Birding by Tony Soper (1988), Oceans of Birds by Tony Soper (1989), Ponds and Streams by John Stidworthy (1990), Noah's Choice: True Stories of Extinction and Survival by David Day (1990), Wildlife of the Salcombe & Kingsbridge Estuary by Gordon Waterhouse (1992), Questions and Answers About Seashore Animals by Michael Chinery (1994), Green Fields and Pavements: A Norfolk Farmer in Wartime by Henry Williamson (1995), Trout etcetera by Brian Clarke (1996), Collins Guide to Fish of Britain & Europe by Peter J. Miller (1997 ), The Best Book of Big Cats by Christiane Gunzi (2005, translated into German under the title Tessloff's first book of the big cats ) and A Clear Water Stream by Henry Williamson (2008). In 1987 he was involved in the design of the graphics for the book Save the Birds (German: Rettet die Vogelwelt by Gerhard Thielcke , Rudolf L. Schreiber , Anthony W. Diamond and Horst Stern ).
literature
- John E. Pemberton: Who's Who in Ornithology , Buckingham Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-95149-658-9 , p. 227
Web links
- Portrait at Wildwood Arts Dartmoor
- Portrait at John Nicholson Fine Art
- Literature by and about Mick Loates in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Loates, Mick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Loates, Michael John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British wildlife and portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orpington , Kent , England |