Fiona Martin is an award-winning news graphic artist and science illustrator with 20+ years of experience creating infographics, conceptual illustrations, data visualizations, and ArcGIS maps. She currently works as a visual journalist at The Seattle Times, creating explanatory graphics with a focus on climate and other scientific topics. Fiona is a 2025 Climatebase Fellow, leading a capstone project with a dozen other fellows to produce climate-themed comics.
Fiona was the lead illustrator for the Tunnel Vision series, a multi-year investigation that was a 2025 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Local Reporting. Her visual stories also won best Climate Reporting in the 2025 Online Journalism Awards, an Award of Excellence for Story Design in the 2024 SND, and First and Second Place in Graphics in the 2024 SPJ NW Excellence in Journalism contest.
Previously, Fiona was a Senior Illustration Editor at the nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews, where she trained freelancers and new hires, developed style guidelines, and edited about 600 figures/year across 26 scientific journals. She also managed the GNSI’s Journal of Natural Science Illustration, led a team of creatives on Basecamp and oversaw all aspects of online and print production.
In 2005, Fiona founded Visualizing Science® LLC, providing much-needed science illustration and design services to government agencies, research institutions, publishers, and news outlets. Major clients include NOAA Climate Program Office, the National Park Service, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Whole Foods Market, Princeton University Press, and senior scientists at Harvard, Cambridge, Johns Hopkins, Case Western Reserve, and the University of Galway.
Fiona resides in the Seattle area with her husband and two children. When she’s not drawing, she can be found lounging with her dog Neo, gardening, swimming, or kayaking in the many inlets of Puget Sound. Fiona has a rare genetic hearing loss but has not let her deafness hold her back. She uses a combination of technology and speech reading, and speaks wonderfully (albeit with an accent). Fiona grew up in rural northern Arizona and graduated as valedictorian of her high school class. She went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in Marine Biology (summa cum laude) and a graduate certificate in Scientific Illustration from the University of California, Santa Cruz.