Peter Hayman

Peter Hayman (born February 17, 1930 in Uxbridge , Middlesex ) is a British ornithologist and animal illustrator.

Life

After completing his training at the Taunton School, Hayman studied architecture . He then worked as an architect in London for a few years. Influenced by Archibald Thorburn and John Gerrard Keulemans , he became an artist in 1969. His main interest was the British avifauna , which he often depicted in the flight profile in watercolors and gouache . In 1976 the British publisher Mitchell Beazley published the book The Birdlife of Britain , written by Philip John Kennedy Burton , with the first watercolors by Hayman. In the 1980s, Hayman was involved in the Helm Identification Guides, a series of bird identification books. In 1991 he published The Complete Guide to the Birdlife of Britain & Europe . This richly illustrated book with 3500 watercolors was created in collaboration with Rob Hume . It has been translated into several languages, including German under the title The Birds of Europe , and is a popular bird guide in Europe. Between 1989 and 1995 Hayman specialized in landscape painting.

Works (selection)

author

• Shorebirds - an identification guide to the waders of the world (1986) by Hayman, John Marchant & Tony Prater - ISBN 0747014035
• The Heron's Handbook (1987) by Hayman, James Hancock, James Kushlan & Robert Gillmor - ISBN 0060153318
• The Complete Guide to the Birdlife of Britain & Europe (German: Die Vögel Europäische ) (1991), by Hayman & Rob Hume - ISBN 1857327950
• Birds of Prey of Britain & Europe (2006), by Hayman & Rob Hume - ISBN 1845331842

illustrator

• The Birdlife of Britain (1976), by Philip John Kennedy Burton - ISBN 0855330872
• The Doomsday Book of Animals (1981), by David Day - ISBN 0-85223-183-0
• The Shell Easy Bird Guide (1997), by Rob Hume - ISBN 0-333-65420-X
• Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives (1999), by Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp, Tim Inskipp - ISBN 0691006873

literature

• Nicholas Hammond: Modern Wildlife Painting. Pica Press, 1998. ISBN 187-340-355-0 : p. 229