Hello, my name is Audrey Vandermeulen. I’m from Newburyport Massachusetts, which is a small seaside town north of Boston. Despite living by the water my entire life, I much prefer being in forests, which inspires my artwork with themes of nature magic. I love creating pieces that focus on deep, mysterious creatures, but I also enjoy designing lighter themed work that appeals to a child-at-heart market (cute yet sophisticated) in products like games and toys. In 2015 I started studying at Pratt Munson Williams Proctor, the upstate school of Pratt Institute. I relocated to Pratt’s main campus in Brooklyn, New York in my Junior year, and I recently graduated in the Spring of 2019 with a major in Illustration and a minor in Visual Development. Throughout my life creating, I have worked with a wide variety of media. Many people state that as an artist you should focus on one medium, but this is never something I’ve followed; I work in a plethora of different 2D and 3D media including digital painting, maquettes, acrylic, marker, and multimedia sculpture. I have found that knowledge of each medium strongly reinforces the other. Currently, I am deeply exploring digital 3D sculpture as an evolution of my work in traditional clay, and that 3D work is greatly helping my 2D illustration.