Pastureland

Goodbye sweet February

Welcoming year of the fire horse with open arms.

16x20 acrylic on board 2026.
(Prints available soon)

Hello, I spent a very long time making this poster because I know it can be hard to care about what we cannot easily see. So let me help you see!

In my corner of the internet, there is a lot of talk about native grasslands and regenerative farmland. But if you are like, what are you even talking about, girl, why are you always going on about grass, fair enough!

From the road, it can look like not much is happening when we think of “grasslands.” What we often see is produced farmland. True untouched native grasslands are actually very rare. BUT below the surface, a LOT is going on:

Roots hold soil together, burrows connect animals, food is stored, babies grow up, fungi move nutrients between organisms, deep roots pull carbon into the ground, and there are even fossils from when this place was a great inland sea!

All of that underground work helps clean water, build nutrient dense soil, move oxygen, and keep carbon out of the atmosphere. Healthy grassland systems are one of the reasons we have fertile ground for growing crops and supporting livestock, which means feeding us, too!

I drew a cross-section of just a corner of this complicated underground world. I like the idea that it could live in a home, a classroom, or a shop and teach whoever walks past it :)

The posters are big, 18 x 24, and available on my website now on a beautiful premium matte paper and are now available in my online store, thank you so much for looking.

$2 from each one goes to to support native grassland conservation.

Honk if you heart fescue!

Please meet my enormous friend Edmontosaurus. She lived here too, about 73 to 66 million years ago.

The leaves in this drawing are relatives of ginkgo.
Many people think of ginkgo as a Japanese tree today, but they show up in Alberta’s fossil record too! I couldn’t help but imagine them shaking loose and landing at the feet of everyone who walked where we walk.

I made this illustration in collaboration with the paleontologists at the as a companion to the fossil material.

There is also a pop-up version on right now where you can see an incredible replica at the Stanley A. Milner Library downtown, on view until September 2026!

There are eight more displays like this in libraries across Alberta, I can't wait to share the rest with you.

And if you go, I’d love to see your photos :)

I’m especially grateful to my wonderful project lead, Mary Sanche, who guided me through this reconstruction!

The Native Grasslands stickers I illustrated for are now available online!
farm very generously stepped in so more funds could go directly toward protecting native grasslands and species at risk. We so grateful for the time she put into helping us with this.

100% of proceeds support CPAWS’ conservation work.

Available now through Tender Living Farms website and IRL at 🐃

Aaaaah I have been working on this for SO long and I am so excited to finally make this real!

Sunday, Feb 15
11 am–2 pm
20 minutes NW of Calgary
Semi-heated arena
No prior art or horse experience required!

Registration & waitlist info in my bio.

Happiest Winter Solstice, This longest, darkest night of the year. Letting the light come back in, and wishing for a few good things along the way.

‘Sundog Sisters’ 2023.

October on the prairie. Prints are in the shop for anyone who trusts the eyes in the dark.

Well, like many others today, I need to let you know that we’ve had to pause all shipping to the U.S. for now because the exemption on small business tariffs was lifted. U.S sales are a solid third of my customer base for prints, so this will be a significant hit for our household, and mentally is just such a bummer.

The new tariff is 35% on every order. My margins are just too tight to cover that, and I don’t want to make you guys pick up the tab either! So, If there’s something you really want, message me privately and I’ll do my best to figure it out with you.

I also want to say that I see you. I know so many of you are fighting your hearts out against legislation that feels exhausting and unfair. I am not posting this from my high horse either, I live in the most conservative county in the most conservative province in Canada, where they literally just passed a book ban today, so I get what it feels like to be surrounded by regressive politics and exclusionary thinking.

Thank you for supporting my work and for being here. I love you all, and I really hope I can open U.S. shipping back up soon.

Keep on rocking in the free world.

Gave the ol’ website a big update. There’s now a proper Science & Nature section with all the museum, conservation, and interpretive work I’ve been doing, and another section for more narrative illustration work like music, publishing, and storytelling.

I also wrangled my contact forms into shape, which is the kind of thrilling admin news I know come here for!!!

So yk, if The Field Museum, Patti Smith, or Patagonia have been leaving increasingly desperate messages for me somewhere out there, the website update should finally clear things up. Everyone else, you can also look too.

Loooooong shadow of summer.