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Emily has loved paper for as long as she can remember (hoarder level here). As a kid she spent all her money on stationery and pens. She also always loved writing and receiving letters and spent most of her high school and college years drawing letters instead of taking notes. She took a broad-tip, Italic, calligraphy class in middle school and picked it up again when her babies were napping. She enjoys making stationery, writing names on each card and lining the envelopes by hand, designing address stamps and lettering all things wedding related.
Watercolor found Emily as a natural extension of the creative process. She always dabbled in painting, but found that she loved the loose movement and unpredictable nature of watercolor when creating backgrounds for hand-lettered pieces. What began as a simple wash of color has turned into a new and necessary creative outlet. The art she is drawn to is always abstract in nature so it seems fitting that what flows from her is also abstract. She loves color, line and space and where they intersect.
Her style these days is modern and relaxed,
using a traditional pointed nib and ink.
who is dorothy wade, anyway?
Dorothy Elizabeth Wade Bostic (2.9.1921-12.29.2001) was Emily’s paternal grandmother, lover of shoes, costume jewelry and a Dairy Queen footlong. She was also a serious paper hoarder. When she died Emily’s senior year in college, Emily “inherited” a large amount of paper that nobody else in their right mind would want. Emily still has most of it, because apparently the hoarding apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. All of Emily’s creative endeavors have been named after her grandmother, from the stationery she printed on the word processor in middle school to the jewelry she made post college. Dorothy Wade would be proud to see her name attached to beautiful things created by the granddaughter she loved dearly.
