Brian Healey was educated in Cheshire and at the University of Keele, where he graduated BA (Hons). He followed this up with a Diploma in History of Art from the University of Vienna.

He spent much of his career in education, teaching art at Grammar Schools, and retired in 2003 as Head of Art, Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn. Today, he is a Director of BGH Design Ltd. Living in an artistic household as a child, he was encouraged to continue in the footsteps of his father, who was also an artist and designer. During his time at University, particularly during his stay in Vienna, he came into contact with many famous artists. Brian has held many exhibitions, and examples of his work can be found in galleries and homes in the UK, France, West Germany, Canada, Austria, the USA, Spain and Australia.

Brian Wheaton joined the UK Wine Trade in 1957 and was awarded the Michael Gordon Clark Scholarship, at that time one of only two Trade Scholarships open to the whole of the country, in 1959, using it to travel extensively throughout France and Germany, Spain and Portugal. He became a Master of Wine in 1967, then took up the position of Wine Buying Director of Mackay & Co of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. He also holds Massel's Oenological Diploma (which covers the technical, as opposed to the business, side of wine), and then became a Fellow of the British Bottlers Institute and a member of the Burgundian Order of the Chevaliers de Tastevin.

David Saunders has spent a lifetime in wildlife conservation and for almost a quarter of a century he was head of the West Wales Wildlife Trust. David has a passionate interest in seabirds and marine mammals, and he is the author of a number of books, popular articles and papers on these subjects. For the last nine years he has lectured on a number of cruise ships sailing to a wide range of exciting destinations including Greenland and Labrador, the northernmost parts of Spitzbergen, the Weddell Sea, the Galapagos and other remote Pacific islands.

Keith McClelland has been a full time professional photographer for 25 years and is a qualified member of the Master Photographers Association and the British Institute of Professional Photographers. He trained as a wedding photographer then went on to expand his skills in processing and printing colour and black and white images, together with E6 and cibachrome developing. Commercially he has worked for large and small companies in the UK and Europe, and was even commissioned to photograph a wedding in South Africa! His corporate portfolio includes Virgin Vie, Vidal Sassoon, Wilson Sports, Land Rover and front cover shots for a fashion magazine.