Floor Designer Highlight: Trisha Patel

Please be a part of us in celebrating this month’s highlight floor designer, Trisha Patel. We all know you’ll discover her story inspiring!

Please introduce your self.

I’m presently in Chadds Ford, PA and can be shifting to Glen Mills, PA quickly as we’re within the means of constructing our first house! I’ve been an artist and artistic since I might decide up a crayon! I’ve completed artwork my whole life however by no means professionally till 2021.

I noticed particularly after having my daughter that I wanted to be extra current for my youngsters and supply them a extra lovely legacy.

I presently work full time as a vital care pharmacist and pharmacy residency director. Life is busy and the every day hustle gives only a few moments to have true high quality time collectively which is not the longer term I need for my household. Due to this fact, I’ve pursued this artistic enterprise for them and I’m working within the margins of my life to make this profitable in order that I’m able to do artwork full time sooner or later.

What I worth most in my life is creating extra significant recollections with household and mates and residing a life that’s extra pure and uplifting every time potential. I’ve begun to include a lot of this into my artwork as I clarify the symbolism of assorted icons in nature after they seem in my art work so that individuals can type a deeper connection.

I need these round me to grasp that the fantastic thing about nature goes past simply what’s seen to us. This entrepreneurship shouldn’t be solely to create a enterprise however to create a extra fulfilling life-style for my whole household.

Inform us a bit of bit about your design journey.

I began my journey to pursue artwork as a future full-time profession in 2021 after I found Rifle Paper Firm’s notebooks. I believed to myself, “I might make this!” That led me to do an excessive amount of analysis and watching a number of YouTube movies.

After discovering the path I needed to go together with floor sample design, so many doorways opened and it was course after course that taught me quite a few expertise on how one can develop into a profitable entrepreneur. I can’t say I’ve met my objectives as an artist but, however I get nearer to discovering the path I wish to go and what’s talking to me most for my future enterprise.

What streams of revenue are you specializing in proper now?

Artwork licensing and promoting my very own merchandise through my store.

What do you love to do in addition to designing?

I might like to study pottery sooner or later. I’ve a number of concepts for incorporating my very own artwork onto pottery and I might love to supply extra house decor items with my artwork if I could make the pottery myself.

I additionally wish to discover different artwork mediums equivalent to oil paint to see if I’d like this higher than watercolor.

Do you might have a favourite portfolio design or shopper collaboration?

One among my favorites is with a cloth firm — it’s a group referred to as Serendipity’s Symphony, with Cotton + Metal Materials.

The place do you get inspiration on your artwork?

Nature! I really like seeing florals, textures, and different types of nature by simply being open air. I typically go to a few of my favourite nurseries and retailers equivalent to Terrain to get new concepts for merchandise or patterns with the varied vegetation they provide.

Whenever you look again at your design journey thus far, what are you most pleased with?

Studying know-how! Studying Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Lightroom, Procreate, ShowIt and Shopify has been such a journey however I additionally needed to study social media for the primary time! All the talents I’ve gained with totally different technical instruments has really helped me create artwork that I can promote and allowed me to have an actual enterprise.

Who’re your favourite artists?

Emily Jeffords, Nice Farm Home, Ceramics by Jas, Staircase Ceramics, Sugarhouse Ceramics, Materials to Incredible, Heck Sure Sew Co, Natasja Sadi, and so many extra!

If you happen to might supply recommendation to different designers who’re struggling, what would that be?

Give attention to one factor that really aligns with not solely your values however what lights you up day-after-day and lean into that one factor with your entire soul. It’s okay to strive totally different avenues when you determine it out the path you wish to go however attempt to do one factor very well earlier than shifting on to the following supply of revenue or a brand new talent.