SHARYN SOWELL
Occupation: Paper Artist Website: Sharyn Sowell Biography: Sharyn Sowell loves paper, scissors and old printing presses. She uses all three to design beautiful hand cut paper that is sold as original wall art and used as a basis for stationery, greeting cards, posters, and all sorts of other interesting products from fabric to garden gates, dinnerware and stickers. What do you do and how did you start? I cut paper freehand and use it for all kinds of interesting things- framed artwork, garden gates, candles, stationery & greeting cards, and more. I also print my own work and reproduce vintage pieces on an antique printing press in my studio. I started cutting paper when I needed to amuse my two wiggly toddler sons in a rowboat on an afternoon fishing trip. I...
KERI SMITH
Occupation: Artist and Writer Website: Keri Smith Biography: Keri Smith is an award winning illustrator and writer living in Canada. She has a wide following of clients in North America, Europe, and Japan. Most recently Forbes, The Boston Globe, Better Homes and Gardens, Ford Motor Co,, The Body Shop, The Washington Post, Teen People Magazine, Yahoo, Bon-Appetit, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Canadian Airlines, Utne Reader, and The Canadian Opera Company. She currently resides in a “magic cottage” outside of Toronto, painting, illustrating, creating, writing, reading, and living out loud. What do you do and how did you start?/How old were you when you realised you wanted to do what you’re currently doing and how old were you when you...
KATHERINE DUNN
Occupation: Artist Website: Katherine Dunn Biography: Although she received her BA in Art with an emphasis in ceramics, Katherine did not start painting until her late 30′s. When she did, she chose to work independently as a freelance illustrator for 9 years, working with national clients from her home base in Minneapolis. But she knew she would eventually go the gallery route, and that yearning became more powerful after a Minneapolis gallery invited her to do a solo show in 2001. At the same time, her heart and soul were for some reason pulling her West, and she moved to Portland, Oregon in 2002 where she eventually met her husband, a landscaper. They now live on Apifera Farm in the Willamette Valley where they farm 3000 lavender plants, and raise...
KATHY CANO-MURILLO
Occupation: Artist and Writer Website: Crafty Chica Biography: I’m a self taught artist who tries to have no boundaries or limits!! I have a full time Chicano art business, I’m a newspaper movie and craft columnist and I’m an author of artsy craft books. I do tv segments on DIY stuff every Friday on the local news. And I’m a mom! What do you do and how did you start? After being thwarted by teachers in art and music during my grade school years I grew up believing I had no artistic talent whatsoever. But I was always the girl who was asked to “make the posters”. It wasn’t until I met my husband that I began to dabble in crafts. I was the manager of his band (we were just friends then) and he inspired me to make stuff and...
JULIE VALENTINE
Occupation: Artist and Designer Website: Divine Goddess Designs Biography: Divine Goddess was born out of my innate need to have fun and play. I’ve also been profoundly inspired by artists like Andrea Smith, Shiloh McCloud and Christina Lopp-daring, succulent women who know what they like and aren’t afraid to trust their instincts and live. The women in my work are both soft and sensuous and bold and beautiful. They are amalgamations of people I know who exude the kind of strength and brilliance that just can’t be contained. What do you do? I create vibrantly colorful and bold images of real women in their true goddess nature. I capture the essence of what I admire most about women and what shines forth that they may not see. I create acrylic on...
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