CHRISTINA AUST

I am a self-taught artist with a great passion for nature, animals and especially for the underwater world. I started oil painting as a teenager, since then constantly evolved my approach to paint and thus worked out my current style. After I started a few years ago to actively engage in species and marine conservation, the focus of my paintings shifted more to animal portraits. In the future I would like to try even more to combine these two passions and use my art as a language for species and nature conservation.

Galapagos Shark

Lucy Williams | Biro pen

This piece was created using a printed map of the Galapagos Islands with the two Galapagos Sharks drawn directly onto the map using biro pen. Biro pen is often overlooked as an art medium due to its commonplace nature as a household stationary item, however what I love most about biro is the striking contrast the ink creates between the subject and the background and its ability to create texture within a piece.