Festive Spring
I love seeing a person's hand in their designs. Too often when translating a drawing into a pattern the work becomes very digital. The above design explores how to keep the nature of the original drawing or painting in the design. I hope you like it as much as I do!
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Artworks mark a place in the road of each artist's unique life journey. The artist in a sense leaves a bit of themselves in that work. I began my career as a graphic designer and quickly found myself organizing a team of people; coordinating work flow, quoting jobs, talking with clients, and designing. The work was challenging and the hours long. As a parent this work, meant that my own children spent more time in day care than I liked. I returned to school and earned my MS Art Education, teaching license and a job. The work better matched my and my families needs; yet my drive to keep creating, to find my own creative voice still echoed in my head. I took many more graduate classes in Art History and Studio, but it was not until I took a local quilting class (for a summer diversion) that I found something that I could wrap my creative brain around.
I realized that most of my past works had elements of pattern and that these patterns might not just be superficial extras, but could in fact be the artistic voice that became the focus of my work. My mother always told me that I had to find my own way. Never did I imagine that surface design could bring me such joy.
Today, I still teach, I still freelance as a graphic designer; but my passion is creating, studying and looking at pattern.
But that thought is only the beginning! Once the pattern is made, I think of what it can be printed on and then what can be made from that material.
create, empower, innovate!
Artworks mark a place in the road of each artist's unique life journey. The artist in a sense leaves a bit of themselves in that work. I began my career as a graphic designer and quickly found myself organizing a team of people; coordinating work flow, quoting jobs, talking with clients, and designing. The work was challenging and the hours long. As a parent this work, meant that my own children spent more time in day care than I liked. I returned to school and earned my MS Art Education, teaching license and a job. The work better matched my and my families needs; yet my drive to keep creating, to find my own creative voice still echoed in my head. I took many more graduate classes in Art History and Studio, but it was not until I took a local quilting class (for a summer diversion) that I found something that I could wrap my creative brain around.
I realized that most of my past works had elements of pattern and that these patterns might not just be superficial extras, but could in fact be the artistic voice that became the focus of my work. My mother always told me that I had to find my own way. Never did I imagine that surface design could bring me such joy.
Today, I still teach, I still freelance as a graphic designer; but my passion is creating, studying and looking at pattern.
But that thought is only the beginning! Once the pattern is made, I think of what it can be printed on and then what can be made from that material.
