Mike Langman Bird Art

 Gallery of Birds

Paintings in Progress

 Originals

Seabirds

Prints

Bird Art Enquiry

Dipper

Mount Hekla and Pink-footed Geese

Images for reproduction -Looking for bird illustrations for reproduction? Over 200 British Bird illustrations of 140 species are available from my high resolution digital bank of images - go to my illustrations page  - many Butterflies and Dragonflies also ready for reproduction in 2007.

ORIGINALS for sale and last of PRINT run

Mike's interest in birds and painting have worked together for as long as he can remember. His enthusiasm was given a real boost, when at the age of 15 he won a national RSPB competition judged by bird artist Dr. Eric Ennion, the prize being a much treasured original by the judge.

Studying a 4 year BA Hon's. Scientific Illustration course at Middlesex,  Mike took a work placement at the RSPB Headquarters and stayed there for the next eight years! While working for the RSPB he travelled to Yemen with author Richard Porter to meet government officials and to sketch the little know endemic species of the country. Within a year a booklet was produced for Yemen school children showing many of the counties birds to create an interest in birds and the environment.

Since leaving the RSPB and moving to Devon in 1993, Mike has worked on nearly 20 books for many publishers including Hamlyn, New Holland, Academic Press and Mitchell Beazley. He still paints for the RSPB Magazine's, Nature Centres as well as the Wildlife Trusts and his artwork is regularly published in all the UK Birding Magazines. With tight publication deadlines and a heavy workload he was little time to work on his own ideas for paintings but over the years has produced several limited edition print runs, of his favourite paintings some of which can be seen on this Web Site.