Diarmid is a wildlife and landscape artist working in Oils, Acrylics and watercolours. Diarmid is also a renowned naturalist, television presenter and wildlife cameraman living now in the beautiful mountains of wales.   

Born of British parents in Bulawayo, Southern Africa, Diarmid was brought up on the edge of the game reserves where he spent much of his time and where he built up a huge passion for wildlife that has lasted a lifetime.    It is due to those early influences and memories that makes him drawn so often to paint the big cats, buffalo, zebra and other wildlife as well as the dramatic landscapes that fill his memory.

Arriving in the UK at age 8, Diarmid was brought up in Sevenoaks in Kent and later worked for the R.S.P.B.’s research dept studying birds of prey before moving on to television where he presented some 24 half hour documentaries for HTV as well as introducing ITV series like ‘Extinct’ and appearing on BBC’s Countryfile, BBC documentaries and BBC radio including winning ‘Pick of the week’.  

Diarmid is also a highly experienced wildlife cameraman and filmed the birds, mammals, insects and plants that filled the 24 documentaries that he presented and continues to film wildlife around the world today.

In 1989, Diarmid was privileged to be asked to built the cages and then raise and release the very first 11 of the introduced Red Kites to the UK from Sweden.  5 remained with him in the highlands and the other 6 were taken to the south east where they have increased enormously.

Diarmid was also asked to lead wildlife tours for SAGA and has done so over a 15 year period travelling from April till mid Summer to a great many countries where he has the opportunity to impart some of his knowledge and expertise to his guests.    Stunning places like places like Africa, Iceland, Costa rica, The Azores, St Lucia, the Dolomites, the Amalfi coast, Turkey and many more locations.   

This not only allows him to travel to amazing places and to see so much of the world’s amazing wildlife but also to meet wonderful and interesting people and allows the rest of the year to be dedicated to creating the artwork that fulfills his soul so much.