Pretty Things Spotlight: * Jessica Doyle *

Update: JANICE WRIGHT is the winner of the Sexy Red Toes print by Jessica Doyle...YAY! Thanks so much to everyone who entered...be sure to enter this week's give-a-way too {there's a link to it on the right side of this blog}.

Reminiscent of painstakingly created embroidery on the finest silk, Jessica Doyle's work is inspiring in its whimsical detail.

Drawn in by her vibrant colours and entrancing swirls, one is instantly intrigued by her curious shapes and subject matter, such as the human body, sea creatures and the world itself through her eyes.

"Drawing, painting and writing feel good to me. I can't seem to remember a time when I haven't been creating anything, something for that matter."

Spotlight: Jessica Doyle

★ Tell us a bit about you... I have been working in the arts & design industries since the age of 17. I have doubled in age since and still love it. I am formally trained as an illustrator, surface and graphic designer after having attended the New Brunswick College of Craft & Design and later, Langara College in Vancouver, BC. I am a collector of paper, pens, paint and all things container, tiny, metal, old or wooden.

★ What inspires you? Life inspires me. After three near death experiences I am happy to be amongst the breathing. Ideally the ideas would come easily and sometimes they do. Other times it through experimentation, trial and error that a final illustration is created.

★ Apart from creating, what do you do for fun? I hoola hoop with a home-made hoop. It is as high as my shoulders (about 5 feet in diameter). I can bring it from knee to neck lift it off my head and walk-through it twisting it in various contortions. I'm also an avid organic gardener.

★ What has been your most memorable moment selling your art? When a person offered to buy an original 24x24" acrylic painting and asked how much? I said $1,250 and he paid for it. At the time I was broke and it got me through the rest of the month. Living in Vancouver was not cheap. Haha!

★ Any advice for fellow artists... If you feel stuck and uninspired switch mediums.

★ If you could be a superheroine, who would it be and why? Wonder Woman for sure, mixed with a little Sylvia Plath. In grade one I wanted to be Wonder Woman. She was the "it" girl in 1980! I still have my original -now vintage (OMG)- Wonder Woman pencil case from then. And Sylvia Plath because of her brutal honesty. I have volumes of my own written journals... someday.

★ Where have you traveled or where would you like to travel and why? I'd like to travel back to Vancouver to live again. Dream would be to own a live/work Loft in Vancouver and a Residential Home in Saint John, New Brunswick; my hometown and where I currently live.

★ More about You…. While living in Vancouver for close to five years I was drawing and writing with ink so much that I was running dry 3 to 4 Pilot G-tec C4 pens a week. My goal was to eliminate the need for pencil before pen and I have. I rarely use pencil except to sign prints with. As with any muse this could change.


★ Etsy- http://JessicaDoyle.etsy.com
★ Blog- http://jessicadoyle.ca
★ Flickr- http://flickr.com/photos/eastvanesica

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This Give-a-Way has ended...

Now that it's warm outside, let's all celebrate and paint our toenails RED!
Jessica did...and now she wants to give-a-way one of her very favourite prints to YOU!
Her "Sexy Red Toes" Print is from an original drawing painted with watercolour. The background has been added digitally. Print size is 5 x 7" on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper.

Thanks to Everyone who entered!