many faces of creativity and joy...
Each month from November 2014 to December 2017 I interviewed and and shared the art of inspiring women on my blog. You can find those interviews by following the links below.
I also ran a series of mini-interviews focused on sketchbooks and featuring the art of artists who regularly use that medium as part of their creative process. You can access those interviews here.
Abby Glassenberg is the sewing pattern designer, craft book author and teacher who runs the blog and podcast While She Naps. She's also a cofounder of the Craft Industry Alliance.
Kate Harvey is a designer creating nature-inspired jewelry for her London-based company Grace and Flora.
Rochelle Greayer is a garden designer and writer and the founder of Pith and Vigor Magazine, but she used to be a rocket scientist.
Ann Wood lives in Brooklyn where she transforms salvaged and vintage items into magical and melancholy creations.
Liz Lamoreux is a creative soul who wears many hats, but whose business is built upon the calling to help others realize their worthiness.
Louise Gale is a British mixed media artist, with a passion for color, nature and mandala making. She creates in her art studio in south Spain overlooking the sea.
Jill and Kayla Haupt are the mother-daughter team behind Under a Tin Roof, a small business built around a love of all things handmade, country living and their bond as mother and daughter.
Mandy Saile is known for her colorful, whimsical art, inspired in part by her furry family of rescued bunnies. Visit her studio here.
Lisa Estabrook is an artist, gardener, graphic designer, wife and mother. Through her art and her blog she shares a spiritual, healing connection to the world of plants and flowers.
Arielle Rassel designs the jewelry for her business Lemesto, but she's also a theme park designer working on projects for theme parks all over the world. Joy is her main motivator whether she's designing on a large scale or a small one.
Bonnie Christine is a surface pattern designer and the creator of the popular blog Going Home to Roost. She strives to "live an extraordinarily creative life" and to encourage others to do the same.
Sarah Owens is an James Beard Award-winning author of the book Sourdough. She wears many creative hats including that of a baker, a horticulturalist and a ceramicist.
Emily Blass is a graphic designer living in Los Angeles. She runs the design studio Emily Harwood Blass.
Amy Ambroult is a jeweler and teacher living in the Boston area. She runs the company AG Ambroult Designs.
Arianne Foulks is the Captain and Founder of Aeolidia the friendly design team that helps creative businesses set up shop online.
Jenny Blair is a textile artist located in Scotland. She is the creator of the website Bloom and Sew where she sells kits and patterns for the modern stitcher.
Jayme Marie Henderson is a sommelier at a busy Denver restaurant. She is also a freelance writer, recipe developer and photographer. She keeps the blog Holly and Flora.
Rachel Dein of Tactile Studio is a London-based artists who creates plaster cast tiles that are "beautiful impressions of wonderful things.
Penelope Dullaghan is an illustrator based in Indianapolis, Indiana. She founded the design site Illustration Friday.
Laurie Lewis is a gardener, photographer, jewelry-maker living in North Carolina. She writes the blog Hedgerow Rose.
Sharon Rohloff is a soft toy designer living in Boulder Colorado. She writes the blog The Teacup Incident.
Jenny Jo is the artist behind Pet Chicken Ranch. She lives with a feathery flock in California and creates fabric chicken sculptures inspired by her hens.
Shannon Kinney-Duh is an artist, mother, writer and life coach based in Colorado. She teaches e-courses and runs the website A Free Spirit Life.
Photo credits: all photos © the artist except the photos of Bonnie Christine © Callie Lynch, Sarah Owens © Ngoc Minh Ngo, Emily Blass © Kate Danson and Rachel Dein © Andrew Montgomery
Janine Vangool is the publisher, editor and designer of UPPERCASE which "celebrates the process of making, the commitment to craft and the art of living creatively".