Over the last fifteen years, I have illustrated over fifty children's books which include picture books, readers, and board books. As a free-lance artist, I have also designed greeting cards, gift wrap and fabric. I graduated from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and continue to live in the Bay Area with a nutty terrier named Mack.

My illustration process is a hybrid of pencil sketches, hand-painted backgrounds and textures which I scan into Photoshop and then manipulate digitally. This gives me the ability to submit high resolution art in layers and to also make alterations to the art quickly. I love to create work that is fun and engaging for kids with lots of details and humor.

I love...

Almond milk lattes, bird watching, walking 10,000 steps every morning, living with dogs, online courses, golf, podcasts, Maui, walking barefoot, growing tomatoes, bird feeders, Netflix, problem solving, Irish accents, New Zealand, collecting picture books.

Clients Include...

Sleeping Bear Press, Two Lions Publishing, Capstone, Scholastic, Zondervan, Kar-ben Publishing, Parragon UK, Highlights Magazine, Music Together, Boyds Mills & Kane, Viking Children's Books, Penguin Young Readers Group.