Elizabeth olwen surface design

Saturday is illustration day. Each week, we put one of our favorite illustrators in the spotlight, and ask them to share a golden tip to help us get started with drawing. Today, it’s the turn of Elizabeth Olwen from Toronto, Canada. What do you enjoy most about your job? I’m a surface pattern designer and […]

Super excited about my newest products with Peking Handicraft! I am super proud of this new release, with so many fun embroidered and rug-hooked pillows, cute rugs, and lots of new aprons and tea towels. Here is just a small sampling of what is available — a lot of these can be found on the Wayfa

Elizabeth Olwen is a Toronto-based surface pattern designer and licensing artist whose has first collection for Cloud9 Fabrics has just started shipping to stores. This beautiful range of organic cotton prints are called 'Grey Abbey' and are named after a little town in Ireland. Elisabeth also has another collection launching with Cloud9 in the Autumn. Elizabeth also has a selection of paper and gift products through Madison Park Greetings and iPops, some of which are posted below, and she…

Elizabeth Olwen is a Toronto-based surface designer. Inspired by pastoral beauty, nature in its most playful forms, folklore, and romance, Elizabeth’s work is driven by the desire to leave something beautiful behind with every step she takes.

One of my favorite things living in Norway is the taste of Norwegian strawberries in the summer. I also think the plants are very pretty, I like how they spread...

For Elizabeth, the park is a lovely little escape from city life — a green oasis, where the air is fresher and the concerns of life fade away a little. Park Life is inspired by time spent in London, wandering through lush parks, admiring immaculate gardens, strolling past vast ponds where royal swans swim, havingRead more...

I wanted to take a sneak peak at what fabric company Cloud9 have in store for 2015. There will be new collections from Eloise Renouf and Skinny La Minx, as well as exciting designs from Michelle Engel Bencsko, Elizabeth Olwen, Rae Hoekstra, Avril Loreti and Gennine. The fabrics launched at the Houston Quilt Fair last month and these little snippets have begun to appear on the web. I cant wait to see the finished collections when they hit the stores next year!

So does ‘Make Art That Sells’ actually work? Do artists who take the class actually sell more art? Well yes, they do. We asked class participants for examples of their successes since taking the course, and were staggered by the response, bearing in mind that some people only took the course 4-5 months ago. Students […]

Join popular surface designer Elizabeth Olwen for an inviting and inspiring 35-minute class all about designing a complete pattern collection!This class is no. ..