Hello from California's central coast,
I am currently a graduate student at California State University, Monterey Bay's Science Illustration Graduate Certificate Program. My final work focus on pollinators: specifically native bees and lepidoptera of North America. I studied history as an undergraduate and have always had a love for material history. Now, I am in the process of merging my diverse interests if the form of entomological drawn and painted science illustration works on paper and vellum informed by the history of the book. Please follow my work as I am always seeking engagement and informed critique from my artistic peers. I am greatly looking forward to trying my hand at miniature painting and tickling the childhood delight miniatures always have inspired in me. Olga Tokarczuk, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Orhan Pamuk are the authors of my current favorite fiction and Kahlil Gibran, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hafiz are my delightful poet muses.
Welcome Karin! We have members in the US, and also in north and south California (Iām not sure about the middle!). Your work sounds fantastic and vital, bees are so important. Great that you can combine your scientific interests with art, that kind of illustration has a long and venerable history. As does miniature manuscript painting! So great to have you here. Some of us also love Orhan Pamuk, Borges, Hafiz. @Susan Dobrian @Mary Yaeger @Dorothy Thursby @Dori Allard @Alison Guest
(There are other US folk too!) š