Maryjo Koch (Santa Cruz, CA) is a popular and highly regarded naturalist painter who has authored and illustrated over a dozen books including the best-selling Bird Egg Feather Nest. She conducts painting and collage workshops at their studio near Santa Cruz, California. Her work has been exhibited in natural history museums nationwide, and her paintings and prints are sold in galleries and specialty shops throughout the United States and Japan. Maryjo's artwork has been featured on fine housewares products and on gifts and stationary by retailers such as Marcel Schurman Fine Papers, Smith and Hawken, The Republic of Tea, and The Nature Company.