Meet the Artist
Sue Selbie
2d Mixed Media
Sue Selbie grew up in rural England with a love of wildflowers and the birds that visited her garden. A life of travel and raising a family followed, but artmaking was always part of it — early watercolors, then years of quilting, drawing and machine embroidery as she moved between homes and countries. Arriving in the Pacific Northwest felt like coming home to the landscape where she studied Fibers and Book Arts at Oregon College of Art and Craft. The arc has come full circle: she is back to plants and birds, now drawing on the abundant nature that surrounds us here in Oregon. Her medium continues to evolve too — most recently into acrylic markers and hand-carved lino blocks. She is always finding more to explore.
Sue creates nature-inspired designs for textiles and stationery, with a focus on tea towels. Her designs begin as acrylic marker sketches inspired by her garden and walks in Forest Park, then evolve into digital repeat patterns in natural color harmonies — soft greens, garden pinks, woodland golds — that bring pops of cheerful color inside. She has expanded the line with hand-carved lino block prints, scanned and turned into digital repeats that keep the distinctive carved-by-hand character.