I'm an artist / illustrator with a special interest in nature illustrations. I am member of the GNSI and avid Nature Journaler in the SF Bay Area for many years. In 2020 I'm working on my California Naturalist certification, which is as a generalist, with the hope of keeping up in the coming years.

My current project is to confirm a number of plants and trees in the Mare Island Shipyard, Alden Park and surrounding historical district, and then, to re-draw & illustrate the old map. You can check it out here on iNaturalist...

Here’s my project (well it's a place right now, I'm still updating it)
https://www.inaturalist.org/places/mare-island-naval-shipyard-alden-park-tree-tour-and-surrounding-historical-neighborhood

I've also geo-tagged a number of the trees on: www.What3Words.com
A cool platform that if you aren't familiar with is like google maps, and yet not.

And lastly, if you want to know more about me as a studio artist, you can find me here;
www.JPanterCalligraphy.com
Calligraphy came to me by accident several years ago, and it's my bread and butter work even though illustration is really my 'thing.'

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" - anonymous.

“You can teach a student a lesson for one day, but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”

• Clay P. Bedford