Art and Cartoons by Sophie Grillet. Sophie is an English artist who for the past 25 years has been living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She mostly paints in oils and acrylics, also working in 3D including stone and clay sculpture, and photography. Occasionally Sophie takes on cartoon commissions, having been a successful cartoonist for books, magazines and national newspapers in the U.K., where she was a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper. Sophie attended Central School of Art (now University of the Arts, London) and is an arts graduate of the University of Brighton. She also studied Physics at the Open University. Sophie is the organizer of the twice yearly Westside Art Hop and is serving on the Ann Arbor Public Art Commission. Sophie is a currently docent at the UoM Museum of Art (UMMA) where she enjoys researching stories behind the artworks, and provides tours for children and for adults, from university student groups with faculty to older adults suffering memory loss. Being insatiably curious, Sophie is working on a grand attempt to integrate her interests in art, social justice, emotion, ecology, science, and math, but the journey has just begun. She likes to be mindful that what science seeks to describe, is Nature. Her work reflects on the tragedy of our love of natural beauty and our haste to destroy it.