Montreal-based art director Alain Pelletier has been in the poster and licensing business for over 25 years. Alain started in the business as an owner of a stationery company with broad distribution throughout North America. Alain’s keen eye for art direction helped launch his licensing business, Pela Concept. Alain loves to art-direct his team of […]

Chris Paschke is an internationally accomplished artist and calligrapher. Her fascination with both Eastern and Western letterforms and art has been a lifelong study. She has studied with contemporary European master calligraphers in Belgium, Germany, Austria, Russia, and after an inspiring visit to China her work took on a strong Asian influence. For decades her […]

Shirley Novak was born in Southern California. Her lifelong passion for flowers and color led her to follow her heart and also follow Claude Monet’s example of being a gardener and a painter. Novak’s style is colorful and juicy, using the design elements of her poppy plants extensively in her work: the lyrical and whimsical […]

Danhui Nai was born in mainland China and raised in an artistic household with her sculptor father and painter mother. Her natural passion for art was guided through classical training which she applies in her California studio to create beautiful, on-trend artwork in a variety of media. She studied interior design later in Paris and […]

Michael Mullan is an illustrator, designer and hand letterer. His work has appeared in editorials and ad campaigns, as well as licensed products for the home décor market. Michael’s illustrations are most inspired by folk art, 1960’s illustration, & Pop Art. Michael is originally from the suburbs of Chicago. He holds a BFA in Graphic […]

Sara Zieve Miller has been making art since she was old enough to hold a pencil. Her childhood was spent in a house in the woods where she spent countless hours making tiny animals out of beads. The plants and animals that grew and lived around her have been a huge inspiration for her illustration […]

Kathleen Parr McKenna’s paintings “celebrate a passion for color, a reverence for nature, and a love for watercolor.” Her Hawaiian studio is busy year round with commissions and design work. “I’ve always enjoyed the mystery this medium bestows,” she says. “I can express beauty and wonder and it may never be the same twice. Every […]

Between her rural Michigan roots and a childhood filled with cross-country camping trips, Laura is at home in nature. Though her primary medium is photography, Laura has also discovered a love for watercolors and gouache, giving her another way to express the beauty she sees in the world around her. Currently living and working in […]

Wilderness photographer Alan Majchrowicz is fortunate to be able to combine his passion for the outdoors with his profession. Born, raised and educated in the midwest, Alan felt the call of the Pacific Northwest and moved there in 1980. He travels widely with backpack and camera to find the out-of-the-way places that appear in his […]