beetlegirldesign's Profile

Bio

Beetlegirl Design is a soft-sculpture bestiary from the imagination of Becky Brooks.

Becky’s creations are thoughtful reflections of flora and fauna. The natural objects of childhood wonder, Beetlegirl Design’s inhabitants slip quietly throughout our everyday lives. Becky crafts her soft-sculptures from the fibers of natural wool, silk, and linen, often reclaimed from garments and re-imagined into new lives. Her work maintains a refined honesty, as well as a devotion to the nature of her subject and the basic, inherent properties of her materials.

A self-taught artist, Becky is from a family of individuals with eclectic creative talents, where imaginative exploration is the most praised of qualities. Although she has been formally trained in creative writing, which she originally pursued as her artistic medium, Becky ultimately captures the contents of her imagination in fabric, rather than words. Her creations are stitched from the fabric of daydreams and nostalgia, as her creatures embody timeless subjects and sentiments.

Becky Brooks presently resides in the coastal town of Santa Cruz, California with her husband and house rabbit. She is currently immersed in patterning new creations for the bestiary.

Becky’s work has been presented at such venues as Plush You at Schmancy in Seattle and Double Punch in San Francisco, as well as having appeared in BUST magazine.

For more images and information about Beetlegirl Design, please visit http://beetlegirl.typepad.com/.


Copyright:

2007-2009 by Beetlegirl Design. Please do not copy my original creations or take images or content from this site without my explicit permission. If you would like to use images, please email or convo me.

Beetlegirl Design products are not to be resold.

Female, Born on September 1

Favorite Materials

happy thoughts, twilight, wonder, enchantment, a little of this and a little of that, and some fabric and thread to hold it all together