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I am a watercolour artist and science illustrator from Minneapolis, Minnesota, currently working in Australia. My work has been shown in galleries in the United States and Australia, and my illustration work has been featured in numerous scientific publications, museums, journals, textbooks and educational websites. 

My paintings are interpretations of familiar scenes from nature but observed through a hyper-focused lens. I zoom into a species to give it new life. A patch of mushrooms becomes a city of intertwining stems and gills. An unassuming grasshopper becomes a magnificent flying creature. I'm most interested in creating worlds within worlds by depicting familiar organisms in unfamiliar ways. My style is very detailed, using color, composition, and form to break out of traditional representational art tropes.

 

I create art as a way to interpret the underlying systems in history, language, and nature. I find motivation in fossil collections, mycology, folklore, natural history museums, terrariums, esoteric traditions, entomology, and sea monsters. I love complex overlapping stories and visuals.

I currently live and work in the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne, Australia, and I have found boundless inspiration from the ecosystem here. Living in a fern tree forest, surrounded by hills and streams, and visited by exotic parrots and bushy-tailed possums has been a dream. My most recent series has been featured at In.cube8r Gallery in Melbourne, and Wooby Lane Gallery in Hobart Tasmania.

 

Big Red Sharks comes from my childhood in Minnesota. Even though I'm from the land-locked Mid-West of the United States, I've had shark dreams (or nightmares if you prefer) almost weekly since I can remember. As I grew up, sharks became an obsession of mine, which became a lifelong love of ocean life and nature in general. Add that to my childhood nickname as a kid (being a tall redhead) and you get Big Red Sharks.

Education 

2002 - 2006

BFA Fine Arts

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

2010 - 2011

Graduate Certificate in Science Illustration California State University Monterey Bay

Selected Clients/Commissions

-The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

-VICE Magazine

-The Field Museum of Natural History

-The Florida Institute of Neuroscience

-Nautilus Magazine

-TCI Education

-The University of Minnesota Cancer Research Center

-Free Range Films

-Nuvimedix

-Bayland Collections

-Palacio Inc

-The Science Museum of Minnesota

Exhibitions 
Solo

2024

2023

Mycology, The Arts Lounge Wyreena AU

Environs, Cardinia Cultural Centre Cardinia AU

2023

Retrospective, The Old Auction House Kyneton AU

2021

Ongoing Representation, Wooby Lane Gallery Hobart TAZ

2021

Petals and Wings, Incube8r Gallery Fitzroy Melbourne AU

2010

Entropy and Evolution, Hopkins Center for the Arts Hopkins USA

2010

Aquatics Aquarium Gallery Duluth USA

2009

Rare Specimens Talley Gallery Bemidji USA

Group

2024

Art and Science, Burrinja Gallery Upway AU

2024

Antipodes, Beinart Gallery Brunswick Melbourne AU

2023  

Buggin Out, Off the Kerb Gallery Melbourne AU

2023  

Transcend, Burrinja Gallery Upway AU

Contact Me

0431 512 342

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