Bio

Erin Ellis is a Monterey Bay based, New Jersey bred science illustrator, graphic designer, and lettering artist. With a dynamic skill set, Erin creates work that dances in the overlap of different disciplines: botanical illustration, natural history, science communication, hand lettering, graphic design, and fine art.

Erin’s education includes self-guided learning, workshops with type, lettering and illustration professionals, and formal training in illustration, type design, and science illustration at the Maryland Institute College of art, The Cooper Union (Type@Cooper) and California State University, Monterey Bay. The botanical drawings created for her internship project with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History were published in Harvard Papers in Botany to describe Oxalis species new to science.

Passionate about her local creative communities and helping others learn, Erin is an art mentor for the Western Flyer Foundation, a community 0rganizer and swing dance instructor for Cannery Row Jump!, and a lecturer in the Science Illustration graduate certificate program at CSUMB.