Edie Dillon

I am a sculptor, painter, writer, and mother whose work seeks to honor the beauty and mystery of the world.

My life has been shaped by remarkable experiences in beloved wild places as an environmental educator and advocate. I was privileged to serve as the first full time woman ranger in North Cascades National Park, develop recycling education for the City of Bellingham, Washington, and join art and nature in community outreach for the Verde River in Arizona, among other projects.

Over time, communicating through the language of visual art became as important to me as communicating through the language of science and environmental education. In order to answer personal questions about art's role in cultural change, I focused my master's research on transformative power of art, with particular attention to environmental art.

My studio practice is a search for a personal visual language that can speak to human and environmental predicaments potently, authentically, aesthetically, and with the needed urgency. I hope to help people see and understand the beauty we live in, and to create a vision of healing which is still in our power.

Essays published in Nature Love Medicine: Essays on Wildness and Wellness (Torrey House Press, 2017) Real Ground (Natural History Institute, 2020), Ecopsychology (Mary Ann Liebert Publishers, 2020), Women Eco Artists Dialog (Issue 12, Taking Action,2021), among others.