Native plants and the insects they support are subjects I’m passionate about, so when the opportunity arose for me to submit a design for the America the Beautiful quarter featuring Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Kansas, I was thrilled. There are many facets to this National Park Service gem, but the main one is that it preserves some of the last remaining tallgrass prairie ecosystems in North America. Tallgrass prairies are one of the world’s rarest…

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Native plants and the insects they support are subjects I’m passionate about, so when the opportunity arose for me to submit a design for the America the Beautiful quarter featuring Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Kansas, I was thrilled. There are many facets to this National Park Service gem, but the main one is that it preserves some of the last remaining tallgrass prairie ecosystems in North America. Tallgrass prairies are one of the world’s rarest…

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Native plants and the insects they support are subjects I’m passionate about, so when the opportunity arose for me to submit a design for the America the Beautiful quarter featuring Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Kansas, I was thrilled. There are many facets to this National Park Service gem, but the main one is that it preserves some of the last remaining tallgrass prairie ecosystems in North America. Tallgrass prairies are one of the world’s rarest…

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There’s no doubt that Alexander Graham Bell’s invention and then commercialization of the telephone in the late 19th century had—and continues to have—a major impact on peoples’ lives. His experiments took place in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, so it’s fitting that the Massachusetts dollar in the United States Mint’s American Innovation $1 Coin series highlights the invention of the telephone.  The Statue of Liberty graces the obverse side of all coins in this series, and…

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There’s no doubt that Alexander Graham Bell’s invention and then commercialization of the telephone in the late 19th century had—and continues to have—a major impact on peoples’ lives. His experiments took place in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, so it’s fitting that the Massachusetts dollar in the United States Mint’s American Innovation $1 Coin series highlights the invention of the telephone.  The Statue of Liberty graces the obverse side of all coins in this series, and…

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About a year ago I was finalizing an illustration of a very special fossil invertebrate that hadn’t yet been officially named or described. It is special for a number of reasons: • The fossil is from the famous Burgess Shale formation in British Columbia, Canada, a World Heritage Site that’s remarkable because its fossils are from a period in Earth’s history when complex life was first evolving, and because the soft parts of the animals…

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About a year ago I was finalizing an illustration of a very special fossil invertebrate that hadn’t yet been officially named or described. It is special for a number of reasons: • The fossil is from the famous Burgess Shale formation in British Columbia, Canada, a World Heritage Site that’s remarkable because its fossils are from a period in Earth’s history when complex life was first evolving, and because the soft parts of the animals…

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CreatedHere Magazine is a publication and website showcasing New Brunswick artists, and despite my Ontario address my work appears in the magazine’s latest feature. It’s a virtual exhibit of the illustrations I created for New Brunswick author Stephen B. Heard’s recent book, Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider. I’ve posted a few of these illustrations and written about that project before, but the virtual exhibit displays 15 of the book illustrations alongside relevant excerpts…

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CreatedHere Magazine is a publication and website showcasing New Brunswick artists, and despite my Ontario address my work appears in the magazine’s latest feature. It’s a virtual exhibit of the illustrations I created for New Brunswick author Stephen B. Heard’s recent book, Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider. I’ve posted a few of these illustrations and written about that project before, but the virtual exhibit displays 15 of the book illustrations alongside relevant excerpts…

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This past April I completed a commission for amateur paleontologist W.C. (Cory) Brimblecombe, who asked me to create a painting of an Early Jurassic ammonoid fossil. (Ammonoids are extinct relatives of squid.) Cory envisioned a collage of four components: the fossil specimen in two views, a reconstruction of the living animal in color, and a map of the area where he collected the fossil. The first challenge was that I would not have access to…

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