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BETH RAWLINSON STUDIO  Whether she is hand-screening her textiles, making one of a kind custom glass chandeliers, hand-painting stationery, or designing her line of children’s dinnerware, Beth Rawlinson brings her unique whimsical style to everything she creates.
A former designer for Donna Karan, Lands’ End, and Herend, Beth’s work has been featured in Better Homes & Gardens, House & Garden, True Up, and Style Bakery, among others.
Beth lives in Santa Barbara with her husband, their two children, and Sally & Slug, the family cats. She enjoys elaborate practical jokes, rainstorms, and making trips to her favorite candy store in nearby Carpentaria, CA.
HARRISON HOWARD Harrison Howard was born in 1954 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and grew up not far from there. Much of his professional career has been devoted to mural work in private houses, and has included screens, panels, easel paintings, and watercolors. Primarily, his work has focused on decorative themes including architectural subjects, chinoiseries, and scenic's, often with bird, animal or floral motifs. He has worked extensively with alkyd paints, oil paints, and to a lesser extent, acrylics.
His father, Wing Howard, was also an artist, and is known to many in San Diego, where Harrison now lives, through the murals he painted in the Whaling Bar of the La Valencia Hotel in La Jolla. Harrison started his career at the age of 19 with a one-man exhibit at the upstairs gallery owned by Ross Thiele & Sons Interiors, then located on Prospect Street in La Jolla. All but one of the 24 available watercolors were sold. Since that time Harrison has worked primarily as a freelance artist. Today, Harrison has returned to a focus on smaller paintings, and is now producing limited edition giclee prints of many of these paintings as well.
Harrison’s work has been featured on blogs including The Peak of Chic, Annechovie, Chinoiserie Chic, & Style Redux. He is the current cover artist for Season’s Magazine of Saint Louis.
When Harrison is not at work in his studio, he enjoys playing tennis & writing the occasional Limerick. A devoted father & husband, his amazing gift for painting is eclipsed only by his generosity & kindness.
AMY K DESIGNS  Taught to quilt by her Grandmother Henn, to crochet by her Grandmother Edwards, and to sew by her mother, Amy Kerschner continues her family’s tradition of creating fine handmade goods. She says, “Growing up with so many wonderful, talented women, there was no way I wasn’t going to do something with the talents they passed on to me. I truly love crocheting, quilting, and sewing.”
Surrounded by beautiful hand-sewn quilts and crocheted dolls made by her grandmothers, Amy always understood the value of a family heirloom passed with love from one generation to another.
Just as Amy’s mother & grandmothers passed on their love of sewing & crocheting to Amy, she hopes to pass that love on to you through her creations, each one of which is carefully made by her skilled hands in the hopes that it might become a cherished heirloom for your family.
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