Julie Askew is a young British artist who specialises in wildlife paintings. She has a background in scientific illustration and her research, studying and sketching animal and bird behaviour, has taken her across much of Europe, North and East Africa, Asia and Australia. Having been associated with the Tryon and Swan Galleries in London, her work is included in the collections of the Nature in Art Museum in the UK, where she has been a regular Artist in Residence. Her work has sold with Sothebys, and she has exhibited with the Society of Animal artists in the USA. Her work has also featured on Danish national television. Her new volume, 'A Voyage Round the World in Paintings, the Art of Julie Askew' is recently published.