With over 15 years experience in graphite pencil drawing, Karen Phillips is a British professional wildlife artist. Self taught, her only formal art training was to GCSE level art where she experimented with a variety of different media, before finding her real passion for graphite pencil drawing. She showed an early talent for capturing the character and emotion of her subjects. Karen gained her BSc in Applied Biology from Bristol, England and worked as a successfully published research scientist specialising in Genetics. She then gained her MSc in Human Resource Management from UMIST/Manchester School of Management, UK and qualified as a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development in one year. There followed a highly successful corporate career. After having her son, she decided to take the opportunity to explore and develop her artistic talents further. Her stunning work is held in private collections in the UK, Europe, the USA and Australia and is rapidly growing in both popularity and critical acclaim.Karen works every day from her studio at home in Cheshire, UK, often spending weeks capturing the immense detail of a drawing resulting in incredibly realistic pieces of original wildlife art. Karen is one of only a limited number of hand-picked Signature Members of the prestigious Artists For Conservation Foundation (AFC) (formerly the Worldwide Nature Artists Group WNAG). Karen is also an active member of the Marwell International Wildlife Art Society (MIWAS), Europe's largest wildlife art society alongside well-known artists such as Pip McGarry, Vic Bearcroft and Paul Apps.She is also an active member of the Society for All Artists (SAA), the Fine Art Trade Guild and The Wildlife Art Society International (TWASI).

Karen actively supports the fundraising of many charities at both a regional and national level. She believes it is hugely important to do what she can to support all the vital work her chosen charities do. Karen has generously donated "Happiness" to help raise vital funds.