About Rachel:

Rachel Greig is an award winning photographer, mixed media artist, and proud owner and designer for Darkroom Door. Rachel’s photographs and artwork have appeared in art galleries, television, books, magazines and have been created into homewares, stationery and art and craft products.

Award-winning photographer and mixed media artist Rachel Greig has built a successful career around documenting real life in a creative way. Best known for her travel photography and mixed media art, Rachel is the co-founder and creative director for Darkroom Door, an Australian company that creates high quality, photographic rubber stamps and craft products.

Rachel has a Bachelor of Visual Art, is a former photo editor for several magazines and contributor to multiple books and publications. Rachel currently shares her talents by teaching workshops, designing products, and creating content for craft, travel and lifestyle brands.

An avid explorer, Rachel has hiked the Himalayas, lived in a Kombi van through Europe and visited over 30 countries. In addition to inspiring thousands of explorers to creatively document their travels and everyday life, Rachel is a proponent of utilizing creative journaling to work through life’s challenges.

Rachel currently lives on the NSW Central Coast, Australia with her husband and two children.

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About Birgit:

Birgit is married to Erik and a mom of 3. She lives in a little village called Winsum in the north of the Netherlands.

Birgit started scrapbooking in 2003 but then fell in love with mixed media and art journaling. Her favorite things to do right now are art journaling, mono printing and layered collage art. She loves to get her hands dirty and experiment with paints and inks and all kinds of mediums.

Birgit’s art is mostly bright and colorful, with a lot of layers and details. She loves to combine colours that are very contrasting and works a lot with stamps, stencils, inks, acrylic paints and markers.

Birgit teaches and demonstrates in her own studio at home as well as in craft stores and at (international) mixed media events (pre-Covid) and taught a number of (collaborate) online classes. Teaching brought Birgit all over the world. She had the privilege to teach in the US, Canada, India, ustralia and Israel but also closer to home in France, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Austria and the UK.

She loves to travel, see new places, meet people and explore different cultures. She considers it a huge bonus that she is able to combine that with her love of teaching and inspiring people to create art.

Since 2014 Birgit has her own product line with Carabelle Studio for whom she designs stamps, stencils and art printing plates. Birgit is a Lead Brand Ambassador for Gelli Arts® and creates monthly video tutorials for the Gelli Arts® You Tube channel and conducts regular live classes for Gelli Arts® and Michaels Stores.

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About Rae:

Rae Missigman, mixed media artist, author and instructor is known for her vivid colors, intricate layering and signature repetitive art marks.

As an artist, Rae believes that creativity can be accomplished in bite sized pieces during even the busiest days. She focuses on embedding her distinctive mark on each piece leaving no doubt of its creator.

As an instructor, Rae strongly encourages all artists to trust themselves to fearlessly do what they love. She champions a bold voice, continuing education and finding inspiration in the everyday.

As a woman, Rae lives in central FL within a large family of creatives. She now shares her love of all things handmade with a new generation of young makers.

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About Natalya:

Natalya is an artist who uses repurposed materials and she helps other artists who struggle with knowing where to start using these materials to achieve their creative vision.

Reclaiming and repurposing materials to use in Natalya’s art has been her practice for nearly 20 years. Natalya uses meditative hand stitching and mending of vintage linen, alongside her industrial sewing machine to stitch and collage layers of translucent single-use plastics which would otherwise contribute to litter pollution. The transformation she subjects them to makes these materials unrecognizable.

Natalya has been selected to exhibit in juried art shows throughout the United States, including the Diary Barn’s biennial Quilt National exhibition (2021, 2017, 2013) and Quilts=Art=Quilts at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center. Natalya has also showcased her works in juried art fairs such as The Other Art Fair in Brooklyn, NY and The Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show in Philadelphia, PA. The Visions Art Museum in San Diego included Natalya’s work in the exhibition, Breakout: Quilt Visions 2016.

Sharing her expertise by teaching and lecturing on mixed-media art techniques, the creative process and inspiration is Natalya’s way of making sure the art and craft is accessible to everyone. She has taught at Hudson Valley Fiber Art workshops, Craft Napa Uncorked At Home, Create with Cloth Paper Scissors Mixed Media Retreats and many others.

Natalya is a visiting artist working with school children in K-12. She concentrates on reinforcing teamwork, as well as creative and critical thinking skills, while building awareness of our environment and seeing materials in a new way.

Natalya’s work has been featured in periodicals and books including Surface Design Magazine, Fiber Art Now, SAQA Journal, Art Quilt Collector, Quilting Arts Magazine, Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine, Art Quilting Studio, and Artful Adventures in Mixed Media by Nathalie Kalbach, from North Light Books.

Natalya is a member of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), Surface Design Association (SDA) and the Katonah Museum Artist Association (KMAA).

Natalya earned her BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Following careers in the New York City fashion and film industries, she lives and works in Westchester County, NY.

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About Mystele:

I started teaching myself how to paint in 2008 as a literal answer to prayer in relation to ongoing struggles with depression. Painting became a concrete tether to sanity, and now it has grown all sorts of connections with people all around the world that never would have happened- at least not in the same way- without the depression. Beauty for ashes. What feels like the end is so very often another beginning.

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About Mary Beth:

Mary Beth Shaw worked in the insurance industry for 18 years before she quit her job in 2000 to re-ignite a childhood love of art. Since then she has spent all her waking hours exploring life as a painter working in mixed media, primarily acrylic, encaustic and collage.

She initially put in lots of hours as a road gypsy, exhibiting at outdoor art fairs and selling as many as 300 paintings in one very blurry year. She transitioned into being a workshop instructor in 2008 and finds pleasure helping students find their own voice as a painter.

Her personal creative process is a dance between spontaneity and intent; she finds great joy in the physical act of painting and looks at her best work as a gift from a higher power. She welcomes mistakes because they so often provide a delightful detour into new territory.

She is author of Flavor for Mixed Media and Stencil Girl, is a columnist for Somerset Studios Magazine and a Golden Artist Educator.

She is the founder of StencilGirl® Products, LLC and StencilGirl Studio.

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About Marsha:

Marsha is a freelance craft professional from the Netherlands, who creates video tutorials and teaches (online) classes.

She loves printmaking and mixed media art journaling. Bright colours make her happy and her inspiration comes from anything from a walk around the block to films, books, magazines, patterns, materials and works of art.

Coming from a family of makers and crafts(wo)men, she believes the ability to make ‘something’ out of ‘nothing’ runs in her blood.

She has also been interested in art history, modern art and photography for as long as she can remember. Marsha is brand ambassador for Gelli Arts®® and a StencilGirl® Talk columnist.

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About Julie:

My name is Julie Fei-Fan Balzer and I am a recovering perfectionist. My business, Balzer Designs, is all about helping other people explore and hone their creativity. I live outside of Boston in an old Victorian house with a big art studio in the attic.

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About Jodi:

Jodi Ohl is a best-selling author, award winning mixed media artist and creative instructor, originally from Dunkirk, NY, who now resides in Aberdeen, NC. Having left her day job in 2011 to pursue her artistic career full time, she has built a body of work that is known for its distinctive texture, bold color combinations which are often whimsical or abstract compositions, as well as motivational in nature.

Jodi’s best-selling book, “Abstracts in Acrylic and Ink”was released by North Light Books in late 2016 and is currently working on a variety of new writing and video projects. Combining her approachable teaching and writing style, Abstract in Acrylic and Ink, is much like having a seat next to the artist at one of her popular workshops. Jodi welcomes visitors to her website Jodi Ohl (www.jodiohl.com) where you can find a full listing of classes, weekly musings, and additional artwork for sale. Be a part of the inner circle by subscribing to her newsletter by clicking HERE.

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