Latest Additions from Brenda Manley Designs

Abby Jacobs has been in love with creating artwork since kindergarten. She has always felt at home with a paintbrush in her hands. She received a bachelor’s degree in human services/psychology and fine art. She went on to receive her master’s degree in art therapy. She truly believes that the key to fulfillment is to find your passion and do it every day. It has been a lifelong dream of hers to see her artwork on ceramics, journals, fabrics, and much more. A self-proclaimed art supply hoarder, she works traditionally using acrylics and gouache. Abby lives in Boulder, Colorado with her family and enjoys gathering inspiration from the mountains and fresh air the area provides. Her fine art has been shown locally in the Boulder area.

Amiee Sue Malott is a surface designer and illustrator from Michigan. Amiee has a B.F.A. in graphic design with over fifteen years of experience in the children’s toy and craft market. She is inspired by all things happy and cute. She is also passionate about textures, designs, patterns, illustrations, and hand lettering. She loves designing artwork and prints for kids products, greeting cards, stationery, books, and fabric. During the Rainbow Challenge hosted by They Cook and Draw, Amiee’s design was selected in the top four picks out of many, many submissions! This inspired her to continue creating more art for the editorial market. When Amiee is not illustrating, she can be found spending time with her family, creating fun projects for her little girl, drinking coffee, or enjoying the outdoors.

Anita Ashfield-Salter is a graphic designer turned illustrator. She’s originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico and now lives in Denver, Colorado with her family. She has a BFA in graphic design from NMSU and worked in advertising for over twelve years. In 2009, she created Monkey Mind Design and opened an Etsy shop. It’s been a dream come true for her to run her own business and see her work on products like greeting cards, gift wrap, pocket mirrors, stickers, and tea towels. In the Fall of 2015, a local artist group suggested she start a daily sketchbook for personal work. She was hooked and discovered a whole new voice through those daily drawings. The last two years, she's been challenging herself to dig deep and try a variety of styles, patterns, hand-lettering and children’s illustration. It’s been a game-changer to refocus her attention to daily personal work and having a bit of fun doing it at the same time!

Bex Morley is originally from the Suffolk countryside in England but moved to Vancouver Island in Canada in 2009. For as long as she can remember, she's been drawing and making things and loves to learn. After receiving her degree in Creative Arts she studied illustration at Central Saint Martins in London and then obtained a professional diploma in interior design. For the past two years she's  been focused on refining her skills for the illustration and surface pattern design market. her inspiration comes particularly from the Canadian West Coast botanicals and beaches, memories of an English childhood, vintage fabrics, and 1950's children’s books. She mostly works digitally, with her iPad Pro and Photoshop and loves creating her own digital brushes to look like real mediums in order to combine the texture of paints and pastels with the convenience and speed of digital drawing. She also enjoys playing with ink pens, collage, watercolour, and crayons. When not drawing, She can be found playing with her kids, singing with her choir, making jewelry, or going on long walks with her dog.

Emma Schonenberg is a passionate surface designer who hails from El Salvador in Central America. After graduating design school in her hometown of San Salvador, she worked in advertising, apparel, and home decor industries. Along her journey, she discovered her true passion in a subject unknown in her country - surface pattern design. After much research and development, she mustered the courage to travel the world to exhibit at trade shows. Unique to Emma, she possesses a rare talent of the ability to produce a wide range of desirable design styles. Her portfolio spans from novelty art to textile designs. One special highlight she loves to share is when she had the opportunity to see her signature kaleidoscope design style featured on the runway during Fashion Week New York on men’s swimwear! Now back to her roots and country regarding this unknown industry, she was so excited about it she had to share it. "I am the very first Salvadoran to do this and introduced the surface design industry in Salvadoran design. Also, for years I was the only Latin artist in Printsource (a US Print and Pattern tradeshow)!"  What an amazing woman and an inspiring success story.

Puck Selders a freelance designer and illustrator living in Leiderdorp, the Netherlands, half an hour drive from Amsterdam, with his partner and two wonderful children. For as long as he can remember Puck has been passionate about drawing, painting, fabrics, and beautiful colours.  Puck studied fashion and textile design at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. After graduating in 2000, he started working in-house as a babywear designer for several companies. In 2013 Puck became freelance so that he could focus on surface pattern design and illustration. He really loves to learn! Puck loves all things cute, stationery, children´s books, dancing mambo, roller skating, going to the theatre, the beach, being outside, fashion, and everything food related. Creating cute and joyful art just makes Puck really, really happy, and he loves to share it with others!

Lori Danelle Wilson — letterer and illustrator — has been filling sketchbooks since childhood. A lifelong creative, she daydreams about what could be and stays up half the night to make it happen. Originally from the Sunflower State, Lori moved to Nashville, Tennessee and earned her degree in graphic design from Watkins College of Art & Design. Years later, while working as an art director, she took an online hand lettering class and fell in love. It didn’t take long to realize she enjoyed lettering and illustration more than strict graphic design and easily made the switch as demand for her work grew. Though Lori’s first love is always letters, she also enjoys drawing cute characters, bright florals, and brings joy and whimsy to all her work.