> Enya is an artist
& digital designer
based in the Sf Bay Area.
She has experience in digital and print design and specializes in combining illustration into her work. She is open for work on a limited basis; please inquire about availability.
Artist
Statement
I am a designer and illustrator influenced by both Western and indigenous mesoamerican folklore, occultism, and ancient history. My work aims to reframe these contexts and place them in a world of my creation, where my dreams and nightmares invite the viewer to think about dualities: light and dark; joy and sorrow; life and death. My current project Inframundo is a playground for me to experiment with chthonic themes and serves as a personal memento mori.
My process pulls me back and forth between digital and traditional mediums. The bulk of my finished pieces are digital illustrations and paintings created in programs like Photoshop and Procreate. I conceptualize and experiment in my sketchbooks with pencils, pens, markers, and watercolor paints. For finer art pieces, I create linocut prints; I also have experience in silkscreen, etching, and lithography.
In recent years I have expanded into crochet and writing fiction. When I’m not creating, I find inspiration in nature, hard rock music, and ancient history.
CV
Related Experience
2016-present Contract Designer and Illustrator
2019-2023 Layout Artist, Worldbuilding Magazine
Events
2022 Freewheel'n Art Show and Marketplace, Redwood City, CA
2018-19 Bay Area Printers' Fair and Wayzgoose, History Park, San Jose, CA
Group Exhibitions
2018 Array, SJSU Black Gallery, San Jose, CA
2018 Dissemination of an Idea, SJSU Gallery 3, San Jose, CA
2018 Impermanence of Mind, Social Policy Cafe, San Jose, CA
2018 Pressure's Building But We Must Press On, SJSU Herbert Sanders Gallery, San Jose, CA
2018 Purpose in Print, SJSU Gallery 5, San Jose, CA
2018 That's A Lot of Pressure, SJSU Gallery 3, San Jose, CA
Commissions
2018 Private commission, City Hall Luncheon Banners, (~10 x 3 ft.), 8 silkscreen on canvas fabric banners, San Jose City Hall, College of Humanities and the Arts, San Jose, CA
2017-19 Private commissions, SJSU thank you cards (4 x 6 in.), letterpress, Dean Shannon Miller, College of Humanities and the Arts, San Jose, CA