Elizabeth Person on Maps, Illustration, and Art
Elizabeth Person from Everett, Washington designs and creates infographic illustrations that are right at home on your wall or in your hand, to identify the name of a berry bush, a Washington ferry, an apple variety, or a Washington lighthouse. Her sketches of her adopted town capture the beauty and detail in the commonplace. Her maps of islands, nations, and mountain ranges go beyond the USA, but are especially focused on the Pacific Northwest. We like her recipes for Scandinavian-American classics like lefse, krumkake, and kransekake which are as delightful as they are frameable. Join us, as we meet this talented and generous artist, to learn about her passion, her part in the thriving Everett art scene, and her willingness to share how she has become a successful artist and businesswoman. Be sure to visit nordicontap.com to hear more audio from our interview, links to her website, and a video tour of her studio.
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Join Elizabeth on a tour through her studio and learn about her business and how she creates her pen, ink, and watercolor illustrations. Everett’s Shack Art Center sought to help the public connect with local artists virtually to visit their studios this great series (May 2020) called Home is Where the Art Is.
Elizabeth’s great website (elizabethperson.com) where you can see her portfolio, read her blog, and buy some of her work. See her blog posts (click on Blog in the top menu) on “Illustrating My First Children’s Book” and “My Mapmaking Process” where she invites you into her secret processes. In the Shop section of her website, under “Country maps”, Scandinavians will be pleased to see her renditions of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland.
Elizabeth’s Etsy shop (a popular online shopping website for artsy things of all kinds) is where I first discovered her stickers – yes, small and very affordable bits of her work from US States to lighthouses to whales. If you can’t decide, try her Pacific Northwest Sticker Sheet.
Where can you find Elizabeth in an upcoming festival? Either click on Home > Upcoming Events on her website, or try her Facebook site, and look under Upcoming Events there. I’ve seen her at festivals and fairs in Edmonds, Wedgewood (Seattle), Mount Vernon, Bellevue, Anacortes, and Everett (of course!).
I bought my copy of To Live on an Island, which Elizabeth illustrated, at Barnes and Noble in Lynnwood, WA.
Outtakes from my interview with Elizabeth. This is about 8 minutes of segments from the interview that I couldn’t fit into the show, but I think you might enjoy hearing.