Cherie is a freelance botanical artist, emphasizing native and garden plants of western North America. 

Cherie comes to botanical art with a diverse professional background in architecture, planning and floral design.  Because she is also a landscape designer, she particularly enjoys painting native plants which can be successfully cultivated in ornamental landscapes.

In 2002-3, Cherie attended the Botanical Art Institute of San Diego, later completing her Botanical Art Certificate.  She has attended a number of classes and workshops in botanical art and nature drawing as well, including classes at the Art Institute of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.  In recent years she has gone on to teach watercolor mixing and colored pencil painting.

Cherie has displayed her work at a number of ASBA juried exhibitions and other shows, including the International Juried Botanical Art Exhibition of ASBA and the Horticultural Society of New York, 2008-12.  She enjoys working in watercolor, graphite and colored pencil.  Cherie maintains a studio near Tucson, Arizona.