Clients

Abrams Books


AIGA Seattle


Albatros Media a.s.


Albert Whitman & Company

American Greetings

Bloomsbury

Boardgaming.com

China Youth Publishing Group

Clubhouse Magazine

Connecticut Magazine


Disney Publishing Worldwide

Disney Press

Hyperion Books for Children

Egmont UK



Guideposts Magazine

HarperCollins


Holiday House


Houghton Mifflin Harcourt


Clarion Books

Little Brown & Company

Macmillan

Farrar Straus and Giroux

Henry Holt


Square Fish

Tor Books

Mindware

Peaceable Kingdom


Penguin Random House


Dial Books for Young Readers

Dutton Books

Golden Books Young Readers Group

Grosset & Dunlap 

Knopf Books for Young Readers

Penguin Young Readers Group

Random House

Pronk & Associates


Readers Digest


Saatchi & Saatchi


Scholastic Inc.


Simon & Schuster


Aladdin Paperbacks

Awards & Honors

Medals

2020 Silver Medal, Society of Illustrators Los Angeles, Illustration West 58th Annual Competition, One-eyed Jack


2014 Gold Medal, Society of Illustrators Los Angeles, Illustration West 52nd Annual Competition, Quinny & Hopper


2007 Silver Medal, Society of Illustrators New York, 49th Annual Competition, Cyrano de Bergerac


2004 Silver Medal, Spectrum: Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, 11th Annual Competition, Deep Wizardry

Society of Illustrators Los Angeles

2021 Illustration West 59, Ace of Clubs

2021 Illustration West 59, Ace of Spades

2021 Illustration West 59, Ace of Hearts

2021 Illustration West 59, Ace of Diamonds

2021 Illustration West 59, Nature Joker

2020 Illustration West 58, Queen of Hearts

2020 Illustration West 58, Laughing Jack

2020 Illustration West 58, Queen of Clubs

2015 Illustration West 53, Goodbye Stranger

2015 Illustration West 53, The Whisperer

2011 Illustration West 49, Me & Jack

Society of Illustrators New York

2014 Exhibition 57, The Whisperer

2009 Exhibition 50, Class Act

2007 Exhibition 49, Fairy, Fairy

2006 Exhibition 48, Giants & the Joneses

2006 Exhibition 48, Wizard’s Dilemma

2006 Exhibition 48, Five Tales of Transformation

2005 Exhibition 47, My Teacher is an Alien

2004 Exhibition 46, The Boy Who Could Fly

2004 Exhibition 46, High Wizardry

2003 Exhibition 45, Fame and Glory

2001 Exhibition 44, Your Own Robot

2001 Exhibition 44, Superhero or Super Thief

2000 Exhibition 42, Muse of the Arts

2000 Exhibition 42, The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Communication Arts

2007 Annual 48, Award of Excellence, Cyrano

2006 Annual 47, Award of Excellence, 5 Tales of Transformation

Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art

2015 Annual 22, The Whisperer

2010 Annual 17, Candle Man II: Society of Doom

2010 Annual 17, Dragons of Ordinary Farm

2009 Annual 16, Candle Man I: Unrelenting Vigilance

2008 Annual 15, The Garden of Eve

2007 Annual 14, Aliens Ate My Homework

2006 Annual 13, A Wizard Abroad

2005 Annual 12, My Teacher Is an Alien

2004 Annual 11, So You Want to be a Wizard

2004 Annual 11, High Wizardry

2003 Annual 10, Hidden Talents

2002 Annual 9, Your Own Robot

2000 Annual 7, Muse of the Arts

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Exhibitions & Invitations

2019 Artist Presentation, University of Utah, Orem, UT.

2017 Food Fight, Exhibit, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY. 

2017 Keynote, SCBWI, Utah/Southern Idaho Chapter, Salt Lake City, UT.

2016 Artist Talks, Pennsylvania Public Libraries: Murrysville and Norwin, PA.

2016 Artist Presentation, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT.

2012 ISM 10, Exhibit, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA.

2010 Artist Presentation, California State University Fullerton, CA.

2010 ICON6: A Labor of Line, Exhibit, Gallery Nucleus, Alhambra, CA.

2010 EARTH: Fragile Planet Traveling Exhibit, Nationwide.

2009 SPECTRUM: The Exhibition II, Society of Illustrators Museum of Illustration, New York, NY.

2008 Society of Illustrators Annual Traveling Exhibition, Nationwide.

2007 Tables to Walls, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA.

2005 SPECTRUM: The Exhibition, Society of Illustrators Museum of Illustration, New York, NY.

2002 Art With Heart, Oodles of Doodles Traveling Exhibit: Gallery DeNovo, Ketchum, ID; Hullabaloo Gallery, Seattle, WA; Storyopolis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Other Awards

2016 First Place, Utah Illustrators Annual Exhibition, Bountiful Davis Arts Center, UT, TheWhisperer.

2009 Junior Library Guild Spring Selection, Vol 2 No 3, Outlandish Adventures. 

2005 Featured Power Artist, Fantasy Magazine, Beijing, China.

1998 Best New Card Design, August, American Greetings, Cleveland, OH, Witches Wishes.

1998 Norman Rockwell at Stockbridge Award, Society of Illustrators, New York, Kate.