• Native of the rural Midwest

  • Currently live with my husband and two cats in the mountains near Santa Cruz, CA.

  • I love books, music, writing, hiking, gardening, and cooking.

  • Memories, dreams, and the mysterious aspects of life inspire me, and I am fascinated with old things—the worn, the rusty: the beauty in the overlooked or forgotten.

  • Hiking and taking long road trips are two of my favorite ways to spend time and find new things to draw.

Contact: eswns-artwork@usa.net

B.A. Coe College — Cedar Rapids IA
M.F.A. Academy of Art University — San Francisco, CA
2018 IMC Amherst MA
March 2021 SmArt School (audit) — “Mythology & Narrative Painting,” presented by Donato Giancola

Illustration Clients (partial list)

  • SST Publications (October Fields)

  • Lividian Publications (interior illustration for Carrie’s Legacy, cover and interiors for The Grownup)

  • Cemetery Dance Publications (IT, Doctor Sleep, Dueling Minds, Shining in the Dark, He’ll Come Knocking at Your Door, Tales from Greystone Bay, and several illustrations for Cemetery Dance Magazine)

  • Undertow Publications (Apparitions)

  • Dark Regions/Dark Renaissance/Ghost House (Urn and Willow, Quill and Candle)

  • Tasmaniac Books (The Awakening)

Galleries/Exhibits

  • “A Wild Road,” solo show at Lille Aeske Arthouse, Boulder Creek CA, May 2024

  • Illustration West 44 (Two Certificates of Merit)

  • “Autumn Travels,” solo show at Lille Aeske Arthouse, Boulder Creek CA, November 2020

  • Canvas Gallery, San Francisco

  • Borderlands Books (Solo print show)

  • AAU Book Arts Show, San Francisco