Bevin Strider Holmberg (Photo by: Freeport USA)
Bevin is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Falmouth, Maine. She obtained a B.F.A. in Studio Art from James Madison University, with a concentration in photography, focusing specifically in alternative processes. She also holds a Master of Education in Art from the University of Minnesota, and finished the program with summer study at Säterglänten Institute for Slöjd (traditional handicrafts) in Insjön and Stockholm, Sweden. While in Minnesota, she lived and participated in the Tilsner Artist Cooperative in St. Paul, worked as a sign painter, muralist, and taught drawing lessons to elementary-age students.
She began Mermaid Meadow: Illustrative Artworks in the Fall of 2010, and has been living and working in Maine since. She applies her illustrative style to decorative, sometimes functional, work in wood, clay and paper.
“Art does not need to be complicated if it brings someone joy.” -Bevin