Meet Your Neighbor: Gillian Marie Finnell

Gillian Marie Finnell, a well known local illustrator, has been a Niwot resident for 17 years having moved from Seattle. Her mother taught Finnell and her siblings how to draw when she was very young, and she has been drawing her whole life.

Finnell was an art teacher for quite a while in Colorado before she started doing her own illustrations and went back to school to study scientific illustrati...