About

“Why can’t you just draw something from your imagination?” I was once asked. The simple truth is that I find the world around me much more compelling than digging inwards into my imagination. The way light comes through the glass door and hits a plant, the shadows it throws against the wall, the inner folds and curves revealed when I cut open a bell pepper, or the texture of a blue jay feather I found at the park— I am drawn to these elements, to their simultaneous simplicity and complexity, and I find that I draw them, to study them.

While I completed my undergrad degree in illustration, and working professionally in the years that followed, I slowly came to realize there was a missing piece. I was seldom as excited to utilize my illustration and design skills in the field of marketing as I was to draw subject material from the natural world. I came alive as I circled a specimen in a museum, trying to find the most dynamic angle, a way to show something new about the most trivial subject.

It was genuine curiosity and a love for learning that led me to medical illustration. Years later, I am just as enticed and committed to this path as I was when I learned about it. I am filled with anticipation and drive thinking of all I will learn in the next two years at BMC, and all I could apply it to in the decades that follow. I am drawn to the still unrealized potential of medical illustration as it moves into the world of 3D modeling and animation and to the chance to be part of the generation that pioneers and innovates within the field as technology progresses.