VAMArtandDesigns

Greetings to all!! I have decided to take my Etsy store in a slightly different direction. I will be eliminating some products and adding a few new ones, concentrating mainly on my art.

The world has changed a lot and some of my raw goods are no longer available or hard to get. It was challenging and I lost a lot of business. So, since I am a very positive person I used it to create new product. Stay tuned. I am excited about the launch!!

Love to all!!

My name is Vickie-Ann Margaret. For the last 40 years I have been painting, drawing and creating beautiful works of art. I have studied art techniques and art history at different stages in my life and on some occasions learned things just by trial and error.
I was 13 when I took my first painting class in Venezuela, South America. I used acrylic, my first medium, I learned a technique called impasto, heavily applied layers of paint to create an image without blending colors. This method gave the illusion of depth and 3 dimension on a 2 dimension canvas.
At 15 while taking my art classes in high school in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies, my teacher told me that I needed to slow down, take my time when looking at something that I am drawing. Don't look at just the surface look beyond, see if you can find the subtleties in the object and put that on paper.
At 25, in college, Long Beach, California, USA, I took beginning drawing, beginning painting, Art History from the Prehistoric Era to Renaissance. This opened up a whole new world of art to me. I started looking at architecture, sculpture, paintings, drawings, from all around the world. I looked at the Master's techniques and I dove in, I wanted to know and learn more. I became a studio assistant for a successful Los Angeles artist. I studied under her the ins and outs of the art world, I worked in her studio, learned how to stretch my own canvas, visited local galleries, watched her paint, organized her studio and submitted her portfolios to different art galleries.
I took an internship with the California State Long Beach University Art Gallery for the Getty Museum Summer Intern Program at 32. The gallery had just inherited a multi million dollar abstract German Expressionist collection from a prominent Los Angeles lawyer. The stipulation in the will was to maintain the collection at the law firm. So, my task was to go to the law firm everyday for three months to evaluate and learn about the artists in the collection then, write reports about my findings, on the artwork and the artists, to give to the gallery director. This to me was the most memorable and meaningful experience I had in the art world.
Thank you for visiting my store and supporting my endeavors. Enjoy!

Being True to My Nature
I started with Etsy in the hope of showing the world my talent and also to make a full time living of it. I have learnt a lot from Etsy as a company and from my fellow vendors and their many successes.

Painting is my primary passion, so every time I have an opportunity to paint some new idea, I do it. Only in the most recent times have I just stuck with natural things (except for the cupcakes and felt pins), so I have been painting landscapes (soon to come), flowers and fruits. I am working on making my body of work more cohesive which would include natural and organic shapes in my wood burnt mandala boxes, dried flower resin pendants and earrings, paintings, photography, felt pins and digital art.

I am also in the process of learning how to add my art to product. As you can see in my store I have partnered with Printify for that same reason.

So, please take the time to really enjoy my store and my variety of products. I am proud of all that I have done to get my store to the level it has reached and I keep growing.

Cheers!!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/VAMArtandDesigns