| In
1996, Anna Birch started Queen Oscar Designs, a small art company
that designs and produces handmade blank journals and custom-framed
artwork.
Anna has been
painting, drawing and exploring areas of design and color for
many years. Though schooled in education and creative writing,
she's also had training in drawing, photography and composition
at the University of Colorado, the University of New Hampshire
and the Coolidge Center for the Arts in Portsmouth, NH. Her
work has been featured in the L.L. Bean Catalog and New Hampshire
Magazine. Much of her education comes from mentors and friends,
from dreams, from her work with young people, and from her own
self-guided explorations of design. She likes to engage with
art in a spirit of play and awe.
The significance
of the name, Queen Oscar Designs, is this: two years before
devoting herself to her artwork, Anna had a dream of a blue
fish, dying and hungry in its tank. A friend in the dream cautioned
her: Remember to feed the blue fish, which for
her became a kind of mantra, a call back to creativity and the
practices that feed the soul. In 1996, she moved into a creative
household with a midwife, a musician and a blue Siamese fighting
fish named Oscar. Soon after delving into artwork and painting,
she had another dream of the blue fish in the tank, only this
time the fish was very much alive, a plump and thriving Queen
with a crown on her head and hundreds of babies swimming around
her. Finally, a year after she'd launched Queen Oscar Designs,
she dreamt of the fish once more. This time, she herself was
the fish, swimming happily in the tank with food and nourishment
coming down from the surface.
Anna continues
to explore different areas of design, color and texture. She
hopes her artwork inspires joy and recognition in those who
feel a kinship with it.
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