I gather the world in a sketchbook and bring it home as pattern and prose.
My designs begin in real places - the National Tallgrass Prairie, the Konza Prairie, a dark-sky gathering under the wide night in Valentine, Nebraska. Through impressions of experience and spirit, the grasses, the light, the textures and inhabitants of these landscapes become marks and words I carry home. And in turn, they become the repeats and palettes I build into surface patterns meant to live on fabric, wallpaper, and the things people sew and stitch. The same noticing becomes essays, and the nature memoir I'm finishing now.
I come to this with a bachelor's in art, a master's in writing, time spent running a gallery I called home for years, and years as a freelance journalist. All of it has come together to shape a life lived where creativity and craft meet the work of making things real. I care as much about a collection's story as its color, as much about an honest sentence as a beautiful one.
Here you'll find my surface pattern designs, my published writing, and a blog from special places and moments present and past. It's the stuff that follows me into a design or takes shape in a sentence. If you're a licensor, an editor, or a fellow maker, I'd love to hear from you.
In Their Words
Janiece is a hard worker with a passion for the arts and diverse experience: as a gallery owner, a writer, a marketing director, and a development director. Janiece is the ideal candidate to lead a small organization
where one must wear many hats.
Jenny Moore,
Former Project Manager at Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park Project
The prairie is where the work begins. This is where the conversation does.