Born in 1976, Elaine Claire Geall is a professional artist and a resident of Bournemouth, Dorset, in the south of England.

Elaine's talents for drawing, painting and love for animals were evident from an early age and acquired both her National and Higher National Diplomas for Natural History Illustration at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art, Wallisdown, Dorset.

With the aid of optics, a camera and a sketchbook, Elaine's compositions are loosely compiled from her own experiences and knowledge of local fauna and flora, she encounters from her visits to favourite haunts in Dorset and Hampshire.

Birds in particular, are one of favourite subjects and feature a lot in her compositions. Elaine is also an animal portraitist, where canines and equines take prominence. Hooved animals; particularly equines are another favourite of the artist. Having loved horses, ponies and donkeys since her youth, she has recently been taking inspiration from the ponies that roam around the New Forest.

Elaine is influenced by subtleties of light, colour and tonal details. Beit a commission or a non-commissioned piece, regardless of the subject. Her objectives have always been wanting's to capture the likenesses and narratives as truthfully as she can and is always after a sense realism in her work, but not photo-realism.