Brenda Guiled has been painting technical illustrations of fishes since 1979, under the name Brenda Guild and Brenda Guild Gillespie. They're accurate to scale and fin-ray count. These images are published throughout Canada and internationally, by clients such as the Monterrey Bay Aquarium, the David Suzuki Foundation, the Smithsonian, as well as many smaller organizations. They're used for posters, brochures, books, maps, fish I.D. and nature guides, art prints, and more.

See http://www.chartingnature.com/gillespie.cfm for thumbnails of 150+ of Brenda's fish and shellfish illustrations. Click on a species name to see it. Contact that website for further information and to purchase prints or reproduction rights.

Brenda's "salmon magic" card You're welcome to download this card to print and share with others who care about our wild salmon. Click on it to open a higher resolution version. In the new window, right click on the image and hit 'save picture as'. Please print it in colour, using white, letter-size paper - cardstock preferably. Fold in half carefully, and voila, it's ready.

The text reads:
Wild Pacific salmon are not just important to British Columbia, they ARE this coast, land, and its people in so many ways.

Since the introduction to these waters of fish farms and Atlantic salmon-trout (yes, they're trout, not salmon), by 92% Norwegian-owned and run interests, our wild, indigenous salmon have been declining rapidly in overall numbers, with some runs and races suffering vast losses and inevitable extirpation.

Wild salmon start their lives in fast-running streams. Their parents die and donate the rich nutrients of their bodies to aquatic and land ecosystems. Their hatched young eat the bugs and other life that Mom and Dad hosted and fed.

This ultimate sacrifice breaks the disease cycle between old and young, allowing the cleansing streams and nature's great renewal to ensure that the babies make it to the sea free of parasites, deadly micro-organisms, and viral cancers.

All of the salmon we eat should have such beautiful, holy beginnings. Please, buy only wild salmon, fresh in season, else frozen or otherwise preserved. With every bite, savour the magic of this most touching, precious, and wisest of nature's gifts.

Brenda created the following whimsical collages using scans of her fish illustrations.
She sells them as digital art prints and cards.

CONTACT Brenda for more information.

canary	brown
quillback	yelloweye/Pacific red snapper

pink

spring

sockeye

Pacific food fishes