“When you throw something away, exactly where is away?” You may have heard of the Great Pacific gyre – that floating garbage patch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. But did you realize there are now five ocean gyres, each over 1,500 miles wide and one mile deep carrying 100+ million tons of plastic? [...]
Can Art teach Science to teens? As Director at Community Stepping Stones, I got my chance to find out when a group of our young people decided to create a mural about how our daily lives impact Tampa Bay’s estuaries and waterways. One Waterway One Tampa Bay, a 12’ x 8’ portable, mosaic mural and [...]
Please join me for this special event. I’m showing 42 pieces of my colorful watercolors and pastel illustrations, including a selection of my new images from my multiple visits to the Galapagos Islands. Many of my new pieces are posted in the ART section of this site. Rookery Bay is an extraordinarily beautiful nature center [...]
We all know and love the stories, for they are buried deep within our DNA. They are about the beauty, wonder and inspiration that is everywhere in the world around us. They tell how we have overcome fear and learned how to navigate in this life. Whether your approach is as a scientist or a [...]
I just returned from spending almost a month in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands maintaining an illustrative journal of what I saw. You can read about my adventures and see preview drawings on my website. I’m very excited with this new direction in ecological art and I hope to use my art collection and my [...]
You definitely want to enlarge this image by clicking on it… You think it takes a village to raise a child? Auntie can do it all by herself. With no kids of her own, she loves every kid she see…latch-key kids, single-parent kids, abused kids, lonely kids…they end up at her home and [...]