After a career as a Public Defender and private practice, Joann Dinneen started learning watercolor because she had always loved it.  Around the same time she (finally!) awoke to the importance of native plants and pollinators to the world’s survival and started growing a native plants garden at home, along with her fellow gardener in life, Rick. The native plants she paints all come from their garden. Thanks to Heeyoung Kim’s teaching talent, extensive knowledge of plant life, and recognition of everyone’s value as an artist, she allows herself to say she is an artist-beyond anything she could have imagined when she started.