Freelance
Writer & Illustrator for books, pamphlets, leaflets etc. Illustrations are
serious or fun, colour or black and white depending on customer requirements.
Nature Trails and farm diversification projects also undertaken.
Green Tourist
Guide with many years experience leading walks in Devon and on Exmoor. Customer
care comes first. Customers are from all walks of life.
Nature Photographer
with 5000 stock of British Wildlife & Habitats colour transparencies 35mm.
Also available on disk.
Lectures to W.I's,
Schools, Natural History Groups etc.
Education to 18 at North Devon College:
8 GCSE’s. 2 A 'Levels.
Full clean driving licence.
Regular
Columns;
North Devon
Gazette & Advertiser ‘Countryside Matters’ (1997-2000) Weekly.
‘Plant
Profiles’ for ‘Countryside Magazine’, the Journal of the British
Naturalist’s Association. Bi-monthly. (1994-1997).
The Best Of British Magazine on specialist subjects, British Butterflies and Plants. (1994-1995)
Has also been
published in ‘Country Origins’ & ‘Country Lovers Club’, The British Butterfly
Conservation Society’s Journal (1993) and others.
Devon Today
magazine on Natural History and Folklore subjects. (2000-2002)
‘North Devon
Notes’ for Devon Life Magazine.
Writes the ‘Seasonal Message’ on birds for Ernest Charles Ltd. (bird food company) website at www.ernest-charles.com.
Wrote the
Education Page for Wildlife & Countryside Magazine. (2005-2006)
Wrote the Westcountry regional Library Services Wildlife Information sheets on a bi-monthly basis, as part of the Western Morning News wildlife project for its readers throughout the region, i.e. Cornwall. Devon, Somerset and Dorset.
Illustrates a storyboard for Dartmoor News Magazine, "Bod Comes to Dartmoor" (2008). Based on the legendary big-cats roaming the countryside. www.dartmoornews.co.uk.
Assists friend and colleague Trevor Beer MBE with the Western Morning News Wildlife Haven Projects as an advisor on nature conservation in the four counties mentioned above. (Click here for his résumé)
Other
Activities.
Registered life Member of The British Naturalist’s Association (MBNA). www.bna-naturalists.org.
Youth Officer of the British Naturalist's Association.
Fellow of the Zoological Society. (FZS) www.zsl.org.
Life Member of the British Ornithological Union. (MBOU) www.bou.org.uk.
Former Editor, newsletter, North Devon Museum Committee.
Formerly a
member of The Ministry Of Defence Conservation Group for North Devon.
Formerly edited
‘Athene’ for many years, our own non-profit making magazine based on
Cryptozoology, Cryptobotany, Ghosts, Leys, other natural phenomena.
Athene was a pet project produced to bring like minded people together to
revive old folk tales, and to discuss theories that may be scientifically proven
one day….. Athene was sent all
over the world and was discontinued due to its success, we worked on it
voluntarily to keep costs down, but costs increased dramatically!
Led ‘Radio Walks’ for BBC Radio Devon for several weeks alternating with Trevor Beer.
Poetry.
‘Behind The
Veil’ was published in a book called ‘Whispering Winds’ by Poetry Today
.
‘The
Countryside’ was published in another anthology called ‘South West 1997’
by ‘Poetry Now’.
‘A Tale From
A Harvest Mouse’ was published by The International Library of Poetry in an
anthology entitled ‘The Star Laden Sky’. (1997)
‘Love?’ was
accepted for ‘Honoured Poets of 1998’ also by the International Library of
Poetry.
‘The Weather
Fairy’ was published by ‘Poetry Today’ in ‘The Natural Word’. (1998)
‘Castle
Mound’ was chosen by The North Devon Hospice to feature in their calendar for
the March, 2003 page. This competition was sponsored by Banbury’s.
Some of the above won prizes.
Awards;
First recipient of the Richard Fitter Memorial Medal, received at the British Naturalists Association's Annual conference in London, from his son Professor Alastair Fitter in 2008, for personal work illustrating and writing field guides with families in mind.
The Cashmore Silver Cup from the North Devon Conservation Society. (1985)
Television
South West’s (TSW) Young Person Of The Month Award (July) for work in Nature
Conservation. (1991)
Donated ‘The
Endymion Shield For Wildlife’ as the annual award for young people in North
Devon. (NDCS) an award still prestigiously sought after today.
Books.
The following Green Tourist Guides were jointly written with friend and colleague Trevor Beer:
Birds of
Devon
Wildflowers
of the Devon Coast
The Devon
Seashore
Wildflowers of the Devon Hedgerow
All Published
by Tor Mark Press with Cornish versions of these books also available.
‘Introducing
Exmoor’ is published by Bossiney Books
Gorse &
Buttercup Days by Endymion Beer, now
unavailable. Published in 2001 and sold out in the same year.
Down Ferny
Lane, written and illustrated by
Endymion Beer, published by Lazarus Press. Released May 2004 as the launch of ‘Naturama’,
her new business. Down Ferny Lane was re-printed in 2005 and sold out!
(All
pictures © Copyright Endymion Beer 2004)
Bod The Beast of Bodmin Moor, written and illustrated by Endymion was published by Halsgrove 2006.
New! "A celebration of Flora and Fauna of the Bible" Illustrated by Endymion with over 170 colour illustrations. Accompanying wildlife text by Trevor Beer MBE with a foreword by Professor David Bellamy. Published 2007 by Halsgrove. Available now!
