I am a multi-disciplinary artist based in the Bay Area of California. Uninterested in exhibiting or selling my creations, for years my craft has been centered on the explorative process of manipulating materials and having as many aspects of my life be built, created, co-created, restored, or otherwise hand-manipulated. From aesthetics of prints and paintings, to shelves, baskets, and wearable textiles, the goal is to be surrounded by tangible objects that reflect relationships: with time, community, fellow artists, or with a material.

In addition to the physical works that increasingly surround me, I write and draw on a daily basis, with no intent for my poetic prose but to document, while notes and schematics tend to become lectures or articles.

sampling of functional designs ~

where craft meets philosophy ~

paintings, then and now ~

Natalya Swanson