About
An illustrator of wild and cultivated things
Halden Reyes works in watercolor, oil and graphite from a north-lit studio, painting wildlife, botanicals and narrative scenes for collectors, publishers and patient clients.
The studio
The work begins outdoors — in hides, along embankments, at the edge of woods — and finishes slowly indoors. Field sketches and color notes come first; the finished illustration is built from them, never from photographs alone.
Subjects return year after year: foxes in winter, warblers in cane, one amaryllis bulb that has now been painted four times. The portfolio grows the way a garden does — by tending the same ground.
Work undertaken
Original illustrations for private collectors; editorial and book illustration; botanical plates; poster and event artwork; pattern for textile and wallpaper; and a small yearly edition of archival prints.
Editorial & book
Plates, covers and spot illustrations for publishers and nature organizations.
Botanical & natural history
Single-specimen plates and field-guide sets, painted from living subjects.
Posters & events
Centenaries, festivals, regattas and fairs — artwork with a celebratory streak.
Private commissions
Originals in watercolor or oil, from a sketchbook study to a finished canvas.
Prints of the portfolio
Selected works are available as archival giclée prints, made to order.