




Robin Budden studied Natural History and Scientific Illustration at the Bournemouth and Poole College of Art, later returning to lecture in this subject at Bournemouth, and the Faculty of Art and Design at the Southampton Institute of Higher Education.
A combined passion for conservation and art has led him on several overseas projects – in particular, a two- year field study of West African dwarf crocodiles, working as fieldworker/Illustrator, in the Gambia, Senegal and Guinea Bissau, in conjunction with Zoologists from Bristol university. Also a rather hair-raising bio-diversity research project with FFI on Montserrat in the Lesser Antilles, attempting to record in illustrations, species in the field as the Soufrière Volcano chose to erupt!
These days, Robin lives in rural Dorest and has taken up less dangerous duties as a trustee of the charity Gearing up for Gorillas, raising funds for the rangers that take care of the mountain gorillas in the Virunga volcano range of the DRC.
His work has appeared in numerous publications both in the UK and overseas over the past 25 years, most recently in the New Holland series of field guides to the Fauna of Southeast Asia.
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