ARTIST PROFILE

A free-lance illustrator in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 15 years, I began illustrating covers for the Palo Alto Weekly and have since covered the field from greeting cards, cookbooks, children's books, and playful educational materials, to environmental art for the California Science Museum and the advertising campaign launch of Legoland San Diego.

I first realized I was going to be an artist when a paper-mache lion I created in seventh-grade art class grew so large that it had to be driven home in the trunk of my parent's Oldsmobile with the lid up! After a long circuitous route, I graduated from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

I currently live in Menlo Park, California with my dog Gracie and divide my time between my freelance work, licensing projects, and the golf course.