Mimi Damrauer is an award-winning Phoenix-based mixed media artist. Her current paper collages combine hand-painted papers + sewing to create one-of-a kind artworks for wall decor.
She was influenced by her creative mom and sisters and her world travels to India, Japan, Europe, flower fields and even her own backyard.
Mimi Designs Home Decor includes interior wall art, decorative pillows, baby blankets with original designs and kid’s wall art. Mimi creates customized bodies of work for corporate and residential interiors.
You can purchase her work on her website: www.mimidesignsart.com or at her Phoenix art studio by appointment only.
Classes will resume in the Fall in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area. You can also book a private House Party in your own home with friends, or join in a scheduled class. Current classes are Drunk Circles: Hand Stitching and How To Gelli Print: 101.
About Me
Growing up with a very creative mother and sisters meant that art and cooking projects were a constant in our warm home. When I declared, at 9 years old, that I wanted to learn to sew, my mom promptly sent me to the Singer sewing shop at the mall. One bungled tennis dress later, the foundation of my self-taught style and business was laid out.
The next layer would be added that same year, when I took art lessons at the Toledo Museum of Art where I learned my primary and secondary colors. The inklings of a business was planted! That has lead to my whimsical style of painting, drawing & hand-cut wobbly designs.
I am inspired always by looking around me...the sidewalk cracks, the way old bricks lay out, the colors of tulips on a farm in the pacific northwest, and the stones on a beach in Italy.