Katrina van Grouw

Katrina van Grouw

Katrina van Grouw is a British science author, illustrator, and fine artist, best known for her illustrated natural science books The Unfeathered Bird and Unnatural Selection published by Princeton University Press. She has degrees in Fine Art and Natural History Illustration. Van Grouw is a self-taught ornithologist with an interest in comparative anatomy, evolution, and the history of the natural sciences.

Katrina van Grouw
Born	1965
Nationality	British
Education	Royal College of Art
Website	http://unfeatheredbird.com

Personal life

Van Grouw gained an MA in Natural History Illustration from the Royal College of Art in 1992 with a research thesis on bird anatomy. She worked as a curator of the ornithological collections at the London Natural History Museum. She married her husband, Hein van Grouw, in 2009.

Works

Books

Author, Illustrator, and Designer

• The Unfeathered Bird (Princeton University Press, 2013) ISBN 978-0691151342
• Unnatural Selection (Princeton University Press, 2018) ISBN 978-0691157061

Author

• Birds (Quercus, 2007) ISBN 978-1847241993

Illustrator

• A Field Guide to Smaller Moths of South-east Asia (1994) Gaden Robinson, Kevin Tuck, & Michael Schaffer ISBN 978-9839681130
• Bird Sense (2012) Tim Birkhead ISBN 978-1408830543
• The Mandarin Duck (2013) written by Christopher Lever ISBN 978-1408149638
• The Red Canary (jacket illustration) (2014) written by Tim Birkhead ISBN 978-1408847060

Illustrations appearing in other publications

• The Wildlife Artist's Handbook (2013) Jackie Garner ISBN 978-1847976079
• Insects in Art (2014) Andrew Tyzack ISBN 978-1847974891
• Twentieth Century Wildlife Art (1986) Nicholas Hammond ISBN 978-0879512217
• Drawing birds (2004) John Busby ISBN 978-0713668162
• Drawing and Painting Birds (2010) Tim Wootton ISBN 978-1847972248
• Illustration: A Theoretical and Contextual Perspective (2017) Alan Male ISBN 978-1474263023

External links

• Official site