Jennifer Lawson, Author, Illustrator Finding her way into commercial art after college, Jennifer spent twenty years as vice president of creative design for LL Bean in Freeport, Maine. In her post-corporate career, she has worked for more than ten years as a freelance creative director, designer, and illustrator. In between freelance jobs, Jennifer picked up a pen and started to draw. It changed her life and how she sees the world. She has sketched and painted her way up and down the Maine coast and throughout the United States. She has sketched through Paris, Barcelona, Lisbon, over the Inca Trail to the ruins of Machu Picchu, while living on the island of Bali, Indonesia, climbing to the top of Mt Kilimanjaro, and most recently while walking on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across Spain. Through her 500-mile journey as a walker/sketcher/pilgrim, she discovered her true artist self. As she traveled across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela, she always found a place to sketch at the end of each amazing day. Jennifer is rarely seen without a pen and sketchbook. She finds the inspiration to draw from even the simplest of surroundings.