Nature/Botanical Illustration

Still life vegetable study in color pencil during a Natural Science Illustration Certificate program at the RISD

My Natural Science Illustrations and Botanical Illustrations have been exhibited in the New York Botanical Gardens, NY , the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NY; the Longwood Gardens, PA, the Audubon Society's Educational Center of Rhode Island, the Audubon Society of Greenwich, CT, and the Poudre Valley Art League, CO, along with many other exhibitions.
A selection of my illustrations are available in print at www.stilegalleryshop.com.

I started illustrating flowers onto wooden products such as furniture, shelving and ornaments while working for a company in the 1980's. Several years later I relocated to the USVI where I resided in an old gardener's cottage. It was here that I began to focus my attention on illustrating tropical flowering plants and trees.

Image of a Hibiscus Flower in watercolor

One of my botanical illustrations of a Flamboyant tree painted in the Caribbean.

Rhode Island School of Design

In 2000, I decided to enroll in a two year certificate program at the RISD for Natural Science Illustration. It was an intense two year program working late into the night on class assignments.
The beetle image to the left was completed during a course on bug illustration under the instructor Amy Bartlett Wright.

Natural Science Illustration

The three images below were exhibited in two solo exhibitions called 'Water's Edge' at the Audubon Society's Educational Center, Bristol, RI and at the Audubon Greenwich, Greenwich, CT. These shows also incorporated paintings from my New England Rock series and landscape paintings completed along the rocky coastal region of New England.