Writer, graphic designer, self-taught artist and illustrator Lori Nawyn helps others discover their own inherent strengths and abilities. She has written two inspirational books for girls and women, and three cookbooks. She illustrated two mainstream children’s books, What Are You Thinking? and Love, Hugs, and Hope: When Scary Things Happen. The latter book, created to help survivors of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, continues to be used in classrooms and clinical settings across the country. Nawyn has illustrated inspirational and educational children’s works for public and private entities.
Her clients include The Christensen Academy of Music and Dance Foundation for which she designed life-sized characters from The Nutcracker Ballet by Willam Christensen. Over her career, she hasdeveloped print and video art curricula for students in Africa and Fiji. She also founded Hearts and Hands Dolls, a non-profit organization that manufactures soft dolls for terminally ill children.
Her grandmothers are her heroes. Whether her great-grandmother’s treadle sewing machine, or her Grandma Esther’s home-grown vegetables, brood of chickens, or tales of bears, their influence often shows up in her works. Nawyn is married to a firefighter and enjoys seeking adventures in the outdoors, including hiking, fly fishing and urban mushing with her dogs. She makes her home in the foothills of Utah’s Rocky Mountains where she owns and operates a country store and grows lavender.
Nawyn is a prolific artist whose work encompasses whimsical and inspirational themes. Like “Honey Bee Gnomes”, her first fabric collection for Studio e Fabrics. Gnomes are known as symbols of good luck. They are often used to watch over crops, livestock, placed in the garden and onto cute whimsical fabrics. This adorable collection offers a cute Honey Bee Gnomes panel, a border stripe print, a patchwork design, a Gnome collecting honey print, a tossed allover gnomes print, a bee and heart print, a honeycomb print, a geometric print and a sticker tossed allover. This adorable collection will add an enchanted style to quilts, table décor, a wall hanging, pillows or a tote bag and so much more.
