As an artist with a background in environmental and fine arts education, I am constantly looking for ways to merge my interests in art and science by combining the scientific method with the creative process. I use art making as research into the often unnoticed patterns, shapes, and textures of our natural world.

As a child I fell in love with nature through curiosity. The more and more observations I made the more curious I became. This inquisitiveness led me to discover answers to questions like, why do potato bugs curl up into little balls when I pick them up, and why do fireflies have lights? The more I discovered about the natural world around me, the more I began to feel a connection to it and a responsibility to care for it. This collection represents my research of the natural world through art.

There is always beauty where one least expects it, and I often find it in the presence of the birds. Watching them fly and travel together lifts my mind, body, and spirit as I imagine where they have been, and the freedom that must come from having wings. These birds remind me to look for the beauty in the mundane, because it is everywhere when I allow myself to see it.

This is a small sample of work from my schooling at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

I worked with a design company to create illustrations for an education interactive, which was permanently installed for visitors to use while learning about the lives of polar bears at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. The maze challenges visitors to help a polar bear catch a seal. I created eight illustrations displayed throughout the maze as visual representations of the challenges of hunting.