Amy Schimler-Safford

Amy Schimler-Safford has had an impressive career as a textile designer and children’s illustrator for over two decades. Amy has a passion for color and pattern and has been fortunate to design and illustrate products for many companies and publishers including children’s clothing, toys, wall décor, fabrics, greeting cards and stationery, and children’s books and periodicals. Her children’s book illustrations have been well reviewed and award winning. Her work has been included twice in the Society of Illustrator’s juried Original Art Show over the past few years. In 2010 “Why is the Sky Blue?” was paired with an Eric Carle title for Booktrust.org’s book bag program. Over 700,000 book bags were distributed to first year students throughout the UK. It is her privilege to share her work with you.

Some very generous words used to describe her work : “glimmering”, “lavish”, “handsome”, “vibrant”, “gorgeous”, “magical”, “lush”, “amazing”, “breathtaking”, “beautiful”, “gloriously colorful”, “dreamlike”, “luminous”, “dynamic”, “engaging’, “pleasing”, “skillful”, “alluring” and a “celebration of observation”.

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