I began experimenting with botanical illustration in 2018, and have been drawing (and painting) ever since. I really enjoy how drawing forces you to see things as they actually are, rather than as your brain thinks they are. I also love how close observation draws you deeper and deeper into the details and helps you see things you’d never have expected to find. This collection of artwork includes pieces in various stages of completion, each one helping me think through fundamentals of color, line, composition, and form.

Art Shows/Exhibitions

A Treacherous Beauty: Japanese Knotwood. New England Society of Botanical Artists Members Exhibit, Boston Flower and Garden Show, Mar 2019.

Classes 

Botanical Drawing. Instructor: Erica Beade. Harvard Museum of Natural History, Apr 2019.

Plumage and Personality. Instructor: Erica Beade. Harvard Museum of Natural History, Mar 2019.

Colored Pencil Sketching. Instructor: Erica Beade. Mount Auburn Cemetery, July 2018.

Summer Blooms Watercolor Painting. Instructor: Helen Byers. Tower Hill Botanical Gardens, July 2018.

Drawing Leaves. Instructors: Bobbi Angell and Beverly Duncan. Arnold Arboretum, June 2018.

Botanical Studies in Graphite. Instructor: Helen Byers. Tower Hill Botanical Gardens, Feb 2018.

Botanical Notebook: Sketching in the Conservatories. Instructor: Helen Byers. Tower Hill Botanical Gardens, Jan 2018.