Artist’s Statement
“As a formally trained scientific illustrator, I explore the world through the focused observation of natural phenomena. The simplest things - tiny insects, a leaf, a stone - are transcribed with reverence and can be found to have infinite complexity. Representing the totality of a place, fitting all of its life and features into one image, is my greatest professional challenge and pleasure. My favorite work is when I have the dedicated to time to fully explore and know a place, and find a beautiful way to represent it in a work of art.”
About Liz
Liz completed the UC Santa Cruz graduate program for Scientific Illustration in 2009. Before that, she was also an Annie Albers scholar at North Carolina State University, completing a dual degree in Art and Design and Textile Technology.
She began her artistic career after graduate school with an artist’s residency at Dinosaur National Monument. Here she lived in solitude while capturing the beautiful landscapes and ecosystem, and recreating ancient life in a dinosaur mural for the park.
After working in the publishing and environmental consulting industries, she went on to start her own illustration and design studio in 2014. Her clients include the National Park Service, Macmillan Publishing, Stanford Magazine, the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, among many others.
Before the age of thirty, Liz's work had already been featured by Science Magazine, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Slate, BBC, National Geographic, Wall Street Journal, CNN, LA Times and many other journals and periodicals in the US and abroad.
Her work can also be found in the permanent collections of the NC Natural History Museum, North Carolina State University, and in the archives of the National Parks Service.