The Robert Fuller Gallery

Robert E Fuller is one of Britain's foremost wildlife artists. His paintings sell all over the world and his trademark, highly-detailed images have been adopted at home by the RSPB and the National Trust. He has exhibited in wildlife galleries across Europe and up to 7,000 people visit his own gallery in North Yorkshire each year.

A recognized authority on wildlife, Robert often appears on television and regularly writes about his wildlife subjects for his local newspaper, The Yorkshire Post. His life-long passion for the natural world was shaped by his upbringing on a farm on the Yorkshire Wolds. Here he tells his story.I was born in 1972, and moved to Great Givendale, not far from where I still live today, when I was 2. My father, Richard Fuller, is well known for his conservationist approach to farming. His efforts to make Givendale a haven for wildlife at the same time as being a commercially successful farm won him the much-coveted silver lapwing award for farm conservation and the farmer of the year award presented by the Duke of Edinburgh.He would take my brother, David Fuller, and I out into the fields with him and show us nesting sites, badger setts, roe rings or otter tracks. He published a book on the wildlife at Givendale and I used to help him with the photographs, shining a torch through fungi for him. In the school holidays we roamed the farm freely. My mother fondly called us 'feral'. We were always adopting orphaned birds, foxes, even a deer once and the garden was littered with aviaries, coops, fox-runs and hutches. Looking back, my mum was exceedingly tolerant of it all!