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Rachel Hudson
@rachelhillustrates.bsky.social
Illustrator & author • Hampshire UK • Capturing a moment, a feeling in nature.

www.rachelhudsonillustration.com
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Hi, I’m Rachel and I’m an illustrator based in Hampshire UK.

I specialise in animal, wildlife and landscape images.
Happy Bank Holiday Weekend!
May 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A window on chalk stream wildlife, Ovington Hampshire.
May 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
It’s Endangered Species Day today. From the humble hazel dormouse to the giant Volcan tortoise, they’re all here in my book… published back in 2021.
May 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Who’s heard a cuckoo this spring? This cuckoo illustration of mine originally appeared on the cover of Traffication published by Pelagic.
May 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
It’s peak bluebell in my local Hampshire woods.
April 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Harvest mouse and dandelions. Happy Easter.
April 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Blackbird fledglings and auricula. We’re lucky enough to have blackbirds raise their families in our garden. This game of hide and seek amongst the flowerpots is a common occurrence.
March 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Quick landscape ink sketch.
March 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Crows and apple blossom illustration from the book, How to Know a Crow, written by Candace Savage and illustrated by me for Greystone Kids Books.
March 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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It's back! The government have announced that the GCSE in Natural History is going ahead!
March 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The next children’s book I’m illustrating is set in Madagascar and features this amazing lemur - the aye-aye.
March 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Hello spring!
March 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Blackbird, wren and snowdrops.
February 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Blackbirds and fieldfare.
February 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
A deceit of lapwing. This lot are certainly cooking up a conspiracy.
February 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Kitchen table card shuffle: spring birds…
February 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Curlew and Grass of Parnassus. Just shipped to the Shetlands.
February 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Keep the oil in the ground. That Rosebank win felt like it breathed in a small bit of space into my brain.

Moving illo of mine for a podcast ep about eco-anxiety last year 🌎

#Illustration #Rosebank #ClimateIllustration #Climate
February 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Sneaky peak inside #TurtleLives children’s picture book, illustrated by me, written by Annika Johansson, coming this July with Starfish Bay Publishing.
January 31, 2025 at 8:28 AM
TURTLE LIVES - cover reveal for my next children’s book out this July with Starfish Bay Publishing.
January 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
#happyyearofthesnake Here are two of the three species we have in the UK - grass snake and adder. (Previously published in Wildlife Watch Magazine and my debut book from 2021, 100 Endangered Species.)
January 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Florence Nightingale had a pet owl, Athena, that she kept in her pocket and introduced to her patients. She also had a pet cicada, called Plato. Looking at this illustration, can you guess what happened to Plato?’
January 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Dippers and kingcups, aka marsh marigolds. Created with linocut, mono-print, mark making and digital collage. (One of the sights along a healthy chalk stream.)
January 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Kingfishers and the first mayfly. A glimpse of the cover star for the RSPB’s 2026 Family Organiser. Launches this September. Inspired by the chalk stream wildlife along the Itchen.
January 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Hi, I’m Rachel and I’m an illustrator based in Hampshire UK.

I specialise in animal, wildlife and landscape images.
January 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM