About Ericella

Art and design is a passion, and that passion runs across the whole huge spectrum of styles. Narrowing that passion down into only a few styles is nearly an impossibility - which is why we have called the designs of Ericella eclectic! Led by the love of all things to do with the past, the main theme of the designs is vintage, whether that be images, places, people or typography.

I love to create designs using my own photography as a background, especially photographs looking up into the trees where the branches create such amazing patterns of their own, or of old beautiful buildings that change depending on the angle you look at them. My first creative journey was traditional hand made paper collage, which is something I still love to do today. I find the backgrounds of adverts in the glossy magazines can be so beautiful and yet they are often skimmed over. Using magazine adverts as a background to my collage is one of my passions and I like to think that something someone put so much love into can be appreciated again in a different way. The paper collage designs are a work in progress and hopefully these will soon be an addition to the prints available from Ericella! 

I grew up with a love of art and design from day one, with a father who was a Graphic Designer I think this was just part of my make up. I will never forget visiting my dad's design studio back in the 1980s and seeing the huge drawing boards and the racks of pens and art supplies. That is what design was, and I wish it remained that way today. We cannot escape the modern world with AI taking over, and it truly makes me sad that we do not do things the traditional way we used to, but immersing myself in images of the past sometimes makes that easier to live with.