Shawn is an award winning wildlife and fantasy illustrator creating detailed depictions of animals melded with flora and fungi in symbiotic relationships. She touches on her biracial Chinese American heritage in her Chinese Zodiac series. Her work is primarily created with mechanical pencil, and ink.
Her illustrations highlight animal species with endangered status as a way to appreciate their natural beauty and raise awareness for the urgent need of conservation. She explores life cycles within biomes by posing plants and fungi with primarily predatory animals in symbiotic relationships alluding to natural processes of decomposition, regrowth and renewal in the natural world as a way to process imbalances in human politics.