When I completed my MFA-IA thesis I had this grand plan to take the idea of art as a tool for natural science research and to do project dubbed “A Swampland Herbal”. The project, however, had to be put on hold due to one particular missing piece. The missing piece was a serious technical flaw in my training as an artist. I could no more do a botanical illustration than I could fly to the moon. The opportunity arose to study scientific illustration and these are some of the pieces that came out of that study. With still much to learn, I think I might have found my artistic tribe! I tell people that if I’d known I could have been a scientific illustrator and ski instructor when I grew up, it would have been a very different world!!!