I love how sculpture & installation artist, Sandrine Pelletier juxtaposed a horse’s inherent grace and strength with chaotic, haphazard figure lines. These beauties are suspended wool coated with black latex and tar, giving off a feeling of transparent, melting bodies. The skeletal frames first hung in a Geneva gallery in 2009, yet five years later […]

Walking along Page Street in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood this summer, I spied this beautiful large-scale, mosaic tile mural. Along with five other mosaics, its impact and message are hard to miss. It was created by artist, Sharon Virtue along with a group of younger helping hands for the Boys & Girls Club of San […]

This image influenced me to design a pattern with loops and shadows that has become one of the central designs in my Askew Collection. I photographed Ruth Asawa’s woven wire sculptures at the de Young museum in San Francisco. The shadows shift on the walls as the sculptures float and twist…creating endless organic patterns. It […]

Today’s inspiration shows off some of Mother Nature’s best pattern design. A cool morning hike alongside a massive cliff formation in Red River Gorge revealed Her layered spiral carvings of natural stone within Kentucky’s Daniel Boone National Forest. Perhaps Mother Nature’s thumbprint will provide inspired direction for a future pattern design that I could only […]

I just had to touch it. My hands would not stay in my pockets while my eyes feasted on a smorgasbord of color, texture and pattern. I found this vintage Moroccan rug casually folded on a shelf in an oh-so-very-vintage and hip Nashville shop…that is actually well-loved for their own brand of blue jeans. imogene […]

As a textile designer, I thought I’d take a break from my usual pattern designs and try my hand at making a hand-dyed pillow. Originally from Kentucky, my family and I love the Derby. Over the winter we commissioned a painting by artist Carol Spielman. Its turquoise & aqua colors are incredibly vibrant and inspired […]

The rich color saturation of this small poppy photo caught my eye and inspired sketch after sketch. The interpretations led to a creative & contemporary new pattern collection…with an organic, loose style infused with richly layered color. When I first saw this photo, the color was like a knock out punch to my brain. I […]