FASHION DESIGN
Painted Fashion Portfolio
ORIGINAL WORK & PROCESS
NEW YORK, NY | 2014 - CURRENT
The Cool People are the spirits around you, people in your mind, and souls within you. Storytellers among us, they are simply reminders that we are never truly alone." Using the right hand for structure, and left hand for emotion, her dynamic motifs are birthed. Empty elements within their forms symbolize unfulfilled qualities we all share. Their organic head line is their identifying characteristic. To the artist, they are ghosts of all genders. Just like us, The Cool People are unique in shape, height and physique. And when curves dominant their stature, it's apparent the divine feminine takes the lead.
Storm's signature figures came to fruition, and clients voiced them as "cool." As they evolved into a motif, their name was undeniable: The Cool People. Spirits around you, people in your head, or souls within you; they are whatever you want them to be. Each person is completely unique; never one like the other.
Something magical happened when Storm started painted with two hands. In the beginning of her practice, she learned that each hand provided not only a separate style, but tapped into dual parts of her brain. The right hand provided technique while consciously creating. The left hand channeled her subconscious, and with experience, awakened childlike whimsy and skill. She describes the painting process as a method of connecting with herself and the universe on a completely freeing and spiritual level.The Cool People are spawned from two sources, opposite but beautifully complimentary. Storm is not a character creator of The Cool People, but an artist channeling something from within herself or around her. A sense of divine was established along her journey. Divinity can be created when something human-made, mirrors nature. She found peace when she allowed The Cool People to guide her artistry and realized that they offer paralleled healing for her clients.
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Schedule a studio viewing appointment at the East Village Private Studio in downtown New York City. Sessions are offered for fine art purchases, commission meetings or booked artist talks and workshops.
Schedule a studio viewing appointment at the East Village Private Studio in downtown New York City. Sessions are offered for fine art purchases, commission meetings or booked artist talks and workshops.
Schedule a studio viewing appointment at the East Village Private Studio in downtown New York City. Sessions are offered for fine art purchases, commission meetings or booked artist talks and workshops.
Schedule a studio viewing appointment at the East Village Private Studio in downtown New York City. Sessions are offered for fine art purchases, commission meetings or booked artist talks and workshops.
AVAILABLE & SOLD COLLECTIONS
Shopping & Inspiration
The collection is the visualization of the artist's theatrical universe, where her spirits come to play. Organically painted with the right and left hand in tandem, the surrealist work depicts compositions of natural magic and themes of reincarnated nostalgia. With the physical and emotional response from music, the artist is inspired by the colors of classical opera/operettas, harpsichord infused rock, and cinematic scores from Technicolor musicals to modern melodramas. The body of work is an expressionistic reflection of her past year exploring the supernatural elements of the self and dynamic definitions of home. The signature spiritual figures, The Cool People, are teachers on her journey to understand her soul, inviting viewers to show kindness to their own.
