I am a sculptor, painter, writer, and mother whose work seeks to honor the beauty, mystery, and possibilities of our intricately connected world.
I am especially grateful for the glaciers and wild valleys of the North Cascades in Washington State, the expansive skies and Ponderosa Pine forests of Arizona’s Mogollon Highlands, the lush and mysterious lowcountry of South Carolina, the sweet fields, forests, and shorelines of New England, and the beautiful country of Ecuador. Each has offered remarkable, revelatory experiences. In my professional life, I have been honored to work in a number of education and advocacy roles, including serving as the first full-time female ranger in North Cascades National Park, initiating city and county wide recycling education programs in several areas of the country, developing art and nature field camps for children, and teaching in elementary, college, and community classrooms.
Over time, I became interested in continuing this communication focus through the subjective media of the creative arts. In order to answer personal questions about art’s role in cultural change, I focused my master’s research on the transformative power of visual art, and was able to put my engaged practice into this emboldening context.
My studio work 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.
My extended essay in chapbook form, Pulling Together in Rising Waters: Reciprocity as Practice, is forthcoming in October 2025 from River Glass Books. I have also 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 and 2022), and Women’s Eco Art Dialog (WEAD, Taking Action, Fall 2021), among others.
Contributions to Humans & Nature Press:
• Calibrating the Value of All Things: Measuring Time with Three Trees in the Anthropocene
Additional Noteworthy Links:
• Edie Dillon’s Website
Find more writing by Edie Dillon and learn more about her artwork.
• River Glass Books
Read Edie Dillon’s book Pulling Together in Rising Waters: Reciprocity as Practice.
Photo credit: Thomas L. Fleischner
