Outreach and Education

Join me for a free museum presentation and our exhibition catalog is available!

Join me live as I explore creating atmospheric paintings with a limited palette.

I invite you to join me in my upcoming summer and fall workshops.

Full-time students and educational institutions may apply for my program.

My new show and partner events in Port Townsend.

March 15th in Port Townsend, I hope you can join me!

A weekend retreat of renewal and inspiration for women on Bainbridge Island.

Exploring autumn colors and landscapes.

Tips and resources for exploring the world through art.

Prepare for a summer of art in this June 9th-10th workshop!

Join me in Port Townsend to paint expressive skies Feb. 24, 2018.

I helped instruct a kayak expedition in Alaska last summer.

Join me for two workshops in Leavenworth this May!

Field sketching with kindergartners at the aquarium.

Join me in Seattle month for free demonstrations at Daniel Smith.

Inspiration for gesture sketching from a recent workshop.

I spent last week in Port Townsend sketching with a school group.

I gave a series of workshops and presentations for UCDS students.

I completed two teaching residencies at Islandwood, an inspiring outdoor learning center on Bainbridge Island.

I’ve had a fabulous month of teaching and travel and am looking forward to some time in my studio!

I just finished teaching a series of nature journaling workshops.

Last week I taught a field sketching workshop for a UW Natural History class.

Managing deer population for a healthy forest ecosystem

An exploration of fog with biogeochemist Kathie Weathers from the Cary Institute.

Learn about my first series of workshops from my Islandwood residency!

News from Polar Science Weekend and events in Seattle as well as how to draw a penguin in 5 steps.

Thank you to everyone who joined me for my NCI Shades of Fall workshop.

Join me at Daniel Smith in Bellevue, WA this weekend to prepare for journaling during your summer adventures! You will learn create your own sketchbooks and we’ll explore ink and watercolor techniques together. Sunday, June 14th, 11am – 4pm. Call (425) 643-1781 to register. Please let me know if you have any questions and I hope to

Learn to create your own journals and sketchbooks book with me! This Wednesday, Aprill 22nd is the beginning of my North Seattle Community College bookmaking class which will continue Wednesday evenings 6:3opm – 9:30pm at the Sand Point Education Center. We make simple pamphlets, accordion style, casebound books and I will also share journaling techniques. I’d

Polar Science Weekend has been great fun so far, sharing my materials, sketches, and studio paintings with all sorts of lovely people at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. Today (Sunday) is the last day of the event and I’ll be there in person this afternoon. Come by and say hello!

Last weekend I had the pleasure of teaching a 3 day weekend workshop, Nature Journaling, for the North Cascades Institute (NCI). I was joined in La Conner, WA, by nine participants and Megan McGinty, a wonderful NCI naturalist and assistant. We spent the first day making hard bound journals, the second exploring Deception Pass State

I gave a presentation for the Mountaineers on March 12th with Jon Reidel, a glaciologist from North Cascades National Park. I brought a display of my paintings and talked about my project, “Portraits of Ice, Witnessing Climate Change.” It was wonderful how well received our combination of science and art was, and to learn more

I arrived home from Ushuaia, Argentina on March 3rd, in a fog of fatigue and disorientation. Seattle was my fifth stop and the whole voyage took over 30 hours. Nonetheless, my flights were smooth and my baggage arrived sans problem (whew). After one spending one day decompressing, I set up for Polar Science Weekend at