About 

I’m a natural history and folklore artist whose work explores the stories, symbols, and knowledge systems humans have used to understand the living world. My practice blends scientific illustration with research into folklore, material culture, and esoteric traditions, creating a space where natural history and narrative ecology meet.

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Working primarily in watercolor and ink, I draw from my background as a scientific illustrator for museums and research institutions, including the Smithsonian. Field observation, specimen study, and botanical and entomological research remain central to my approach to drawing. At the same time, I study the cultural frameworks - myths, rituals, diagrams, manuscripts, belief systems - that shape how natural forms are interpreted across history.

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My ongoing body of work, Marginalia, investigates this intersection of nature and story. Through series such as Cabinet of Esoterica, Langue Verte, and Mycological Microhabitats, I explore the idea of the natural world as a symbolic archive: a place where relics, wings, stones, seeds, and organisms become part of wider cosmologies and cultural memories. Each piece functions as a kind of field note - part illustration, part artifact, part imagined document from a fictional natural history.

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Ultimately, my work is an attempt to trace the quiet connections between organisms, stories, and meaning. I am drawn to the margins - of books, of ecosystems, of belief - and to the way those margins become sites of transformation, interpretation, and wonder.