Profile/Contact

Name: Erin Hamilton

Contact: eveda333@gmail.com

My Website: artwithwingsarchive

Current Location: Oakland, CA

Occupation: artist: fine art (galleries, commissions), illustration

Making art is my way of sharing and communicating ideas with people, translating either in an abstracted, textured, colorful and symbolic way, or in a very literal way depending on the concept and project. I’m likely to be found working on illustration projects and commissions of lifelike, scientific style illustrations of birds, animals, or plants. Realism and abstraction are equally essential to my experience and sense of place and I really enjoy when I can merge the two in an art piece.

Some of my goals as an artist are to give people a sensory experience that enriches their moment, or a pause for reflection, a beautiful color scheme derived from nature but re-interpreted, a smile, a warm feel good, and a relationship that those feel good moments are sometimes connected with something more serious just beneath the surface of “pretty”. I want to provoke and or twist a notion of beauty, and spark a connection with someone through an image.

I find influences and gather ideas from my environment and the designs within it; music, film, architecture, plant structures, animals, photography, graphic design, literature, silly, serious, and strange people, fashion (textiles, prints, construction)…