About
Hi, I’m Licia.
This is seen through my pressed flower art and jewelry, as well as my mixed media embroidery and natural dye pieces, and art and jewelry that only features my hand stitched embroidery. As an individual with a chronic illness, being able to switch up which joints I’m relying on for a task can be really important- from fine motor movements to gross motor movements.
I grew up with a very artistic mother, but never considered myself to be good at art. I always gravitated more to music and performing arts. Then the pandemic happened and I lost my job as a result. With so much time on my hands, I ended up teaching myself new crafts and picking up more hobbies. I taught myself about eco printing and natural dyeing, embroidering, crocheting, and more about flower preservation and pressing my own flowers to make art with.
I have found that my favorite art forms are when I combine natural dyeing with embroidery. My preferred way to get the dye from the flowers is to hammer them on to pre-treated fabric. It’s a cathartic part of the art process. The treatment of the fabric preps the fibers so that the dye in the plant can stick to the fabric and thus stay a long time. Certain plants are particularly good at providing dye, my favorite to work with being the Coreopsis flower plant. It comes in many different varieties, with different flower colors and leaf shapes, but all leave behind gorgeous colors. I love the part of the process where I get to admire the blooms and add hand stitched embellishments to them, adding just a little bit more to something so special.
My absolute favorite thing to do is make something special for someone. I love to think of as many special little details as I can add to a piece. I want to put intention behind the work I create for someone and make sure they will be overjoyed with what they receive. I also enjoy being able to use my artistic intuition to surprise someone – what are your favorite colors, or special flowers? Let me design something incredible just for you. Art has become my passion and my love, the reason I continue despite physical hardships. Thinking up new ideas and sharing beautiful botanicals makes me so happy.
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