Ben Rothery's Weird and Wonderful Animals
Discover the weirdest and most wonderful creatures of Planet Earth!
In this curated collection, award-winning illustrator Ben Rothery pairs fascinating facts with his stunning artwork to bring you the most incredible creatures in the animal kingdom.
From the bone-crunching beard vulture to the venomous platypus and to the miscroscopic tardigrade that can survive for up to 30 years without food or waterand many, many more , you'll enjoy exploring just how weird and how wonderful the world of animals can be!
Ben Rothery is a detail-obsessed illustrator from Norwich, via Cape Town. He combines multiple processes to create intricate and delicate illustrations and repeating patterns, full of fine detail and vibrant colour.
Much of Ben's work is inspired or informed by his love of nature - he grew up wanting variously to be a shark, dinosaur or David Attenborough crossed with Indiana Jones, but settled upon illustration as a compromise that allowed him to bring those fantasies to life on paper.
Ben works from a small but perfectly formed studio in London, which he shares with an unnecessarily large collection of very sharp pencils.