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Wiltshire artist Philip Shaw is celebrated manufacturing company. Having always
for his detailed wildlife works and simple doodled and painted, Philip’s career
characteristic portraits of children. spans book illustrations reminiscent of
Philip owes much of the inspiration for EH Shepard and commissions through
his wildlife painting having spent 10 years his Tall Chin Illustrations.
working in Africa, including Kenya, Uganda Philip lives in Wiltshire with his wife,
and South Sudan. His journey starting out the artist Georgie Weedon, and their
in the Chyulu Hills where Hemingway wrote daughters, he draws inspiration from
the ‘Green Hills of Africa’ and where Philip his family, the English countryside and
first learned to track wild animals with the his rich African experiences, infusing his
Maasai. He returned to the UK where he work with warmth, nostalgia, and a sense
co-founded Savernake Knives the British of adventure.
