VELVETEEN DREAM DESIGNS
Visual Art by Sivonna West
Functional Design from Home Goods to Wearable Art Pieces. Sivonna West is based in Portland, Oregon, USA and has a BFA in Illustration from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Her skills and portfolio range from T-shirt designs, murals, AirBnB room remodels, merchandise designs and film photography.
ARTIST BIO
An Eye for Design
Sivonna has been creating visual art since she was a child coloring wherever she went. She sold her first still life painting in 2nd grade at a school art show and has been inspired to create art intentionally ever since.
Sivonna Graduated from Ventura Community College with an AA in Fine Art and Printmaking, she worked as a silkscreen printmaker for many years and started designing the illustrations as well. Sivonna illustrated several posters and books for Ether Publishing Company in Ventura, CA before attending The Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. She graduated with a BFA in Illustration in 2011.
Afterwards she spent a summer in Europe painting murals in Barcelona, Spain and making wearable painted velvet capes in Berlin, Germany after being inspired by the David Bowie exhibit there. Sivonna is always playing with new and exciting mediums and is ever growing as an artist and designer.