Alex Warnick is a natural history artist based in southern Indiana. Her interest in birds began as a little girl watching her brother draw a cardinal from the cover of an old Peterson field guide. In elementary school she would draw birds on poster boards, write reports to accompany them, and create meticulous mobiles of the undersides of hawks to hang above her bed. As soon as she began loving birds, she began to draw them. Over the years birds have taken her on many aesthetic adventures, from hunting for Red-faced Warblers in montane, ponderosa forests to chasing Fork-tailed Flycatchers in Indiana Amish country. Along the way she gained a desire to help others see the beauty she saw in birds. After graduating with degree in fine art she pursued a path in ornithological illustration, partnering with scientific institutions to highlight the word’s birdlife. Passionate about art’s ability to further science, her work relies heavily on research into historical natural history imagery as well as her own diligent observations in the field.
Her illustrations have been featured by the National Audubon Society, the American
Birding Association, and Birdwatcher’s Digest (now BWD magazine). She is a recipient of the Donald and Virginia Eckelberry Endowment from the Academy of Natural Sciences and was the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute. Alex hopes her artwork will introduce many others to the significance and beauty of birds so that birds can benefit the lives of people, and in turn, people can benefit the lives of birds.
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