Feature In Where Women Create
I had the pleasure of being featured in Where Women Create recently and below you can find a full link to the article and more about my journey as a designer and artist.
My Story
I have spent my life in the act of creating.
The beauty and gift of being creative is that our world provides us with limitless opportunities in which to create and express ourselves. On life’s winding path, we find ourselves pivoting in varying directions. I have found this to be true of my relationship with being artistic.
As a young girl, any sandy beach, a backyard rock garden, or a drawer in one of my grandmas’ homes was always considered for a thorough investigation. I collected everything … from pretty shells and stones to floral hankies and vintage gems. I loved it all.
I spent days and hours participating in a myriad of magical art classes at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts near Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ceramics, clay, painting, batik, welding … I simply couldn’t get enough. I’ll forever be grateful to my mom, who has encouraged and supported my artistic soul since the beginning.
My grandparents were florists. Nothing can quite describe the feeling of walking into a giant misty floral cooler, layered with buckets of vibrantly colored flowers, and deeply inhaling the sumptuous fragrant scent. I can still conjure this memory and feeling. As kids, we would run up and down the aisles looking at the multitude of beds of flowers and plants. This explains my deep love for the movement and hues in flowers that are found in my paintings. And why I always have a vase of fresh flowers brimming on my kitchen island.
My young adult years were filled with painting, endless sketching, sewing clothes from old sheets and “found” fabrics, and tie-dyeing everything possible (my poor mom!). Many weekend afternoons were spent digging around in local vintage shops with my sister … our intentions always of turning something old into something cool.