Skills:
I am an artist in a variety of mediums. I thrive on collaboration and the creative process. I excel at designing innovative solutions that can be implemented on time and within budget. I am adept at communicating design concepts to clients and collaborators. I enjoy hard work and gain great satisfaction from solving unique design challenges.
I offer a variety of illustration styles ranging from vintage pen and ink etching style vintage drawings, whimsical multimedia illustrations to all vector images. I am competent in painting and drawing by hand, or 100% digital. As a designer I may use seamless blend of all of the above.
I am a dedicated graphic/ web designer. I create logos, scalable vector graphics and children’s book illustrations. I can prepare books for self publishing. I can art direct promo photo shoots, conceive promotional videos, design promotional advertising campaigns. I am a print designer experienced in creating brochures, newsletters, postcards, business cards, t-shirts and posters. I design and program websites. For more information on my website design and website hosting business Scattered Goats, contact me!
I am a passionate animator, motion graphics and projection designer, accomplished at creating original projection and animations for promotions, concerts or theatrical productions. I have a long history of making promotional movies, unique stop motion animations, composite word art and short web promotions.
I am unique as an interior designer in that I bring a theatrical perspective to the design aesthetic, often looking for distinctive and inexpensive solutions that will make high-impact design statements. I am a hands-on designer comfortable working closely with contractors, inspectors, carpenters, and electricians to ensure the end design meets all specifications and requirements.
I am an accomplished theater designer with 30+ years experience designing and implementing scenic, lighting and projection designs. I am an excellent model builder and scenic artist. I can draft ground plans and construction drawings by hand or computer and draft in 3-D.
I am an excellent collaborator and team leader. I am very practiced and proficient at time, budget and personnel management for the creative process – from design concept through implementation. I am as comfortable managing 25 employees and a $500,000 annual budget as I am working 1 on 1 with someone who has an extremely limited budget. I am a visionary, coming up with time-saving solutions to assist with paperwork management. I am very good at foreseeing problems and working toward a solution before the problem escalates. I am considered a great motivator, often able to lead a crew to accomplish more than they thought was possible.
I am really pretty good at just about anything I set my mind to, although I am not a great speller. But I still can play a killer game of Scrabble!
Bio:
I have been making things my whole life.
I grew up on a farm in Dixonville, a small town in Southern Oregon. All through school, I studied visual art. Then I went to college at The Evergreen State College in Olympia and found a job as a scenic artist in theater. I was so excited to learn how to do what I had always done – painting – but just on a much, much bigger scale! I realized what an amazing collaborative environment theater was and I was soon hooked. I started learning how to be a scenic artist, lighting designer and set designer. I landed a highly sought after Scenic Design Internship at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
I came back to Olympia, began working at Evergreen and moved up to become their Technical Director for the Performing and Media Arts for several years. While at Evergreen, I taught courses in scenic design and drafting, mask-making, scenic painting and lighting design. I then moved to Harlequin Productions as their Production Manager. I continued to freelance as a scenic, lighting and media designer. I have been designing for theater professionally since 1988. Designing for theater often means solving ever evolving and unique design challenges with very limited resources and a fixed and often strained timeline.
Over time I realized that interior design and scenic design were very related fields and produced a few interior design projects for Swing Wine Bar, Cascadia Grill, The Lucky Lunchbox, The Olympia Family Theater in Olympia, the Yarn Garden in Portland Oregon, and for Fremont Mischief Distillery in Seattle. I really enjoy the process of creating a physical environment that evokes a desired mood for a restaurant or retail space, while at the same time utilizing my long practiced theater skills of making things look great on a budget.
My work in theater has always included a graphic design component, posters, programs, signs, brochures and websites are always in high demand in theater, so I have been doing graphic design since before computers were used for design.
