About me

For as long as I can remember, making art has been a passion of mine.  I enjoy working with many mediums.  When I was in college at North Park University in Chicago, I really began experimenting with painting and printmaking.  For my BA degree, I concentrated my studies on graphic design.  

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I am drawn to details and textures.  In my work I try to showcase my subject in the way I find most fitting for the medium.  In drawing and printmaking I like creating very detailed images with textures that mimic things in the natural world.  In painting I try to embrace the viscosity of the paint using a variety of elements to add in with the paint (like rice and pasta sometimes).  

In digital illustrations I like to keep the designs simple with bold and contrasting colors and shapes.

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Much of my work is influenced by photos I've taken, nature, my family, pop culture, and great artists before me.  I have always had a fascination with the impressionist and post- impressionist painters like Claude Monet, Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Vincent van Gogh.  Another major influence is the idea of embracing the childlike.  Having worked at a summer bible camp for many years, being creative and goofy and observant is a big part of the job.   

 

Thank you for taking the time to look at my work and read these words.  I hope you can find inspiration and joy from what I've created.

 

-Zoe