Ancestors: The Evolution of Roses
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Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep
The Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep was the first subject of The Migrating Mural® series. Ink Dwell memorialized this majestic mountaineer with a network of six public artworks along a 120-mile stretch of California highway 395. Found only in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains and one of three bighorn species, the sheep’s population plummeted to around one […]
de Young Museum
As an artist-in-residence at San Francisco’s de Young Museum, Ink Dwell founder Jane Kim explored the concepts of ecology, sociology, and technology in the Bay Area by highlighting the relationship between native and non-native species in Golden Gate Park. In Golden Gate Park, this relationship has played out for more than a century. Originally a […]
Flora From Fauna
To celebrate both Redwood City’s history of flower growing and the animals that live within its borders, Ink Dwell created a series of murals called Flora from Fauna. Local wildlife, from squirrels to the bald eagles, offer viewers gifts of Chrysanthemums, flowers that once defined the city. In 1907 the Enomoto brothers founded a chrysanthemum […]
The Wall of Birds
The Wall of Birds One Planet, 243 Families, 375 Million Years The Wall of Birds tells the remarkable story of artist Jane Kim’s 2,500 square-foot mural celebrating the diversity and evolution of birds at The Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The mural, which took two-and-a-half years to create, is the only one in the world to showcase […]
Sutro Stewards
Ink Dwell created the illustrations for Sutro Stewards’s interpretive signs around San Francisco.
Texas Wildflowers
Ink Dwell created a customized backsplash for a home near Houston, Texas, hand painting a series of seven local wildflowers on etched glass tiles.
The Hawk Flies High
Named after the 1957 album by jazz tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, The Hawk Flies High, celebrates the Bay Area’s eight hawks, composed like notes on sheet music, as they soar over the San Francisco Bay and Sonoma and Napa’s Mayacama Mountains. Species L to R: Swainson’s Hawk, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Ferruginous Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Broad-winged Hawk, […]
Nature in the City
Ink Dwell created the illustrations and visual identity for Nature in the City’s ecological map of San Francisco.
Bay Nature Magazine: Seasonal Almanac
For two decades Bay Nature has been telling stories that connect the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world. As part of their quarterly magazine, Ink Dwell founder Jane Kim creates ecological almanacs that illustrate seasonal behaviors of plants and animals.