My artwork depicts what makes me whole:  nature. I work to bring wildlife and plant life alive for people, to inspire others to experience - and hopefully conserve- the natural world around us.. 

I’ve spent 10 years remodeling a 100-year old farmhouse and restoring upland wildlife habitat to an acreage in the Snohomish River Estuary.  In the winter, I fall asleep to the calls of great horned owls and wake to bald eagles, towhees, and waxwings, and in winter, trumpeter swans. I watch northern harriers glide low over fields scanning for rodents, and counting barn swallow hatchlings while feeding my two horses on peaceful summer mornings.

I find even more subjects hiking and kayaking in the diverse environments of the Pacific Northwest, from the ocean to the mountains to the shrub-steppe lands of Eastern Washington.

A lifeflong artist, in 1998 I completed a  program in Scientific Illustration at the University of Washington, counting among my more inspirational instructors the wildlife artist Tony Angell.