Virginia Greene

Virginia is an illustrator, a biologist, and a park ranger. Her illustrations are inspired by a lifelong love and study of animals, nature, and stories.

Virginia has created illustrations for a wide variety of clients and purposes over her career, but always with a focus on nature. She focused on science illustration while completing an MFA at SCAD, and illustrated her own research and other scientists’ work while achieving a M.S. at William and Mary. She was the Bartels Science Illustrator for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, NY in 2016-2017. Since then she has worked for a number of conservation and nature-focused publications, government agencies, and nonprofits. In 2021, she published her first graphic novel with author and friend Mya Thompson—Winged Heroes, a book about birds and their superpowers! When she is not making art, she is outside, in awe of the natural world. Especially birds.
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​Virginia now lives and works in Staunton, VA, happily in the Blue Ridge mountains.

Notable Clients: Ranger Rick Jr., the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Land Trust Alliance, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the Center for Conservation Biology.
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If you would like to work together, please get in touch: virginiagreeneillustration@gmail.com