I am a freelance artist and woodland creature living in the desert of Arizona. I used mixed media, acrylic paint, and digital tools to design and illustrate. I am an adaptable and intuitive artist who plays with style and genres.
My work often uses local environments and nature to explain very personal feelings as well as wider issues. I tend to make art that seeks to bring awareness of the importance of wildlife and untouched wilderness to the public. I want to create things to enrich the lives of viewers, by making them imagine a wilder, stranger, more natural existence within our daily lives. All of this has the end goal of continuing to do what I love - which is telling beautiful, weird, loving, strange stories through art.
I am also an arts educator to all ages. I teach nature journaling, painting, crafts, and drawing. Recently I've also been a mural artist!
When I'm not creating art, I'm usually reading or outside in the sunshine hiking, camping, gardening, trying to make friends with a wild animal, attempting to forage wild plants without dying, or getting lost while exploring someplace I probably shouldn't be.
I'm available for commissions, murals, design work, teaching gigs, and illustrations! Please feel free to reach out at any time with questions or available artistic and creative opportunities.
More artwork by Dakota
Herding Cats
Desert Oasis Mural
Edison Middle School Mural
Rainbow Desert Mural
UP bedroom mural
Lizard Rising a Roster
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