Maryjo Koch Illustrator

Maryjo Koch is a painter and collage artist who has authored and illustrated over a dozen books including the best-selling Bird Egg Feather Nest. She conducts painting and collage workshops at her studio near Santa Cruz, California and her paintings and prints are sold in galleries and specialty shops throughout the United States and Japan. Sunny Koch uses antique photographs, handmade papers, antique letters, pressed botanicals, butterfly wings, antique trim, and rusted metal pieces in her unique collages and assemblages. She has shown her work in Santa Cruz Open Studio, offers collage classes a few times a year, and illustrates for magazine articles, annual reports, advertising, and event invitations.