I am trained as a geologist and a fine artist. Both disciplines instilled a love of botany, nature and the outdoors. Growing up in a family of scientists who were also artists, I was captivated by the precision of the scientific illustrations in their books and would spend hours studying them. I strive for this level of realism in my art, while choosing themes I find beautiful, joyful or whimsical. I’m interested in subjects as large as a rocky coast or as simple as the way a leaf curls when it falls to the ground.