proud to work with:

Satisfied illustration and graphic design clients include: Washington State Department of Agriculture, Jones+Jones Architects, Nia Tero Foundation, the NW Indian College (Lummi campus), Garden Raised Bounty/GRuB, Kitsap County Parks, Tahoma Peak Solutions, Vashon Nature Center, and many more

curiosity & delight in the details

I’m a nature illustrator, and it’s delight and curiosity that lead my approach to both artwork and teaching. Drawing is a powerful means to connect with the living world around us. As an artist, I’m hired to illustrate educational materials like trail signs, museum displays, magazine articles, and interpretive signage. As an outdoor science and art educator, I work with nature centers, outdoor and wilderness programs, Tribal communities, parks, and school districts, to teach all ages how to engage your senses and spark inquiry through simple drawing exercises.

Years illustrating: 25 and counting

Most unusual project: teaching high school biology students how to take scientific field notes by drawing every bone in the 39½ foot skeleton of a beached gray whale 

Member of: Graphic Artists Guild, NW Artists Against Extinction, Wild Wonder Foundation

Continuing education: The Goodship Illustration courses, Nature Journal Educators Certificate (fall 2025, through Wild Wonder Foundation)

Favorite trail snack: Mountain huckleberries, and McVities ginger nut biscuits

Indigenous ecology work

For a taste of my ongoing work with Indigenous outdoor educators in the greater Pacific Northwest region, see this page (external link) for free native plant resources, a K–12 ecology curriculum, and links to deeper engagement between humans and the natural world. I’ve had the honor to serve since 2016 as a designer, illustrator, and curriculum developer on the Tend, Gather & Grow Indigenous ecology project, which is showing thousands of people new ways (which are actually old, traditional ways) of connecting with the living world around us. Since 2011 I’ve worked with a stellar group of educators, creating learning materials for and by Tribal communities, focusing on health and wellness through traditional plants as food and medicine.

deeper background

Illustrator since age 15, when I drew stories live on the chalkboard while a pirate captain told tall tales around the campfire. I was hooked. Graphic designer since 2008, and designer and publisher of books since 2014 (ecological publishing project: Salmonberry, an imprint of Chatwin Books). A degree in studio art, with parallel studies in environmental science and anthropology, knitted together art, language, land, story, and culture for me, and they’ve been inextricable ever since. Deep love of place and the people who care for places, has informed everything. Deep ongoing learning from Indigenous colleagues and friends, who continue to shape my sense of what it is to be a human being, and what is possible in this world. Ongoing board and volunteer service for institutions, non-profits and NGOs in the US and abroad, keeps me curious, humble, and surrounded by very smart, generous, capable people, for whom I’m grateful daily.