Wildlife vet · Visual artist · Cultural organiser DANKA Palacios

I left everything behind to start over, and found in art a way to keep doing what I've always done: make the invisible visible, and transmit what I know.

Who I am

Wildlife vet, visual artist and cultural organiser

I worked in zoos, collaborated with CONAP rehabilitating wildlife, ran a clinic for exotic species, trained veterinary students, made press photographs, wrote, connected people, organised concerts. I always made art, just not quite like this.

I have always drawn. Now with greater scientific rigour.

Based in the Netherlands. Working as a field ecologist surveying bats and sparrows. Making cyanotypes, prints, stickers and scientific illustrations.

Danka Palacios — naturalist artist
Selected work

Cyanotype · Print · Illustration

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Cyanotype — Danka Palacios
Cyanotype Malezas · original series
Lino print — Danka Palacios
Lino print Chamaeleo chamaeleon
Sticker sets — Danka Palacios
Watercolor Lynx pardinus
Solo exhibition · 2023

Malezario

Indómito

Weeds don't ask permission. This exhibition explored their resilience and their beauty through cyanotype with a workshop, a zine, flash tattoos and a playlist to walk through.

Enter the exhibition
Malezario Indómito — installation view
Malezario Indómito — large cyanotypes
Malezario Indómito — artist zine
Get in touch

Let's work together

Whether you want to commission an illustration, join a workshop, get the zine or just say hello, write to me.