Tem "T.S." Larking is an artist and designer, creating beautiful and fun artwork infusing inspirations from various art movements with her own hand, style, and color sensibilities. She creates for various products, including puzzles, crafts, diamond paintings, cross-stitch, fabric, home decor, & more.
About the Artist
Bio
She grew up in Southern California and the Southwest; has travelled, and lived overseas for over a decade.
In her professional life she has worked as a game designer, teacher, consultant & manager. She enjoys both working with people and solo.
She has been an artist since the mid 2000's, working steadily through many life challenges to hone her craft; and studied intensely, guided by excellent teachers.
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Artwork
Tem spent many years developing her hand, eye, and sensibilities in composition/design, light, & color. She loves traditional media - graphite, pen & ink, watercolor, acrylics, mixed media; textures, palettes and patterns.
Beyond those foundations she mastered digital tools and enjoys working with new technologies - creating fantastic works in experimental ways, and incorporating ethically-trained AI. She uses technology to augment and evolve foundations, and puts in many hours of hand-work, human love and effort -collaging, editing and painting intricate, heartfelt and appealing designs.
She is thrilled with the world of options technology affords, to be able to create as was not humanly possible previously, producing re-imagined works as distant loving echoes of days gone by; as in the Art Nouveau movement and Golden Age of illustration; blended with her own personal influences.
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Inspirations
​Design and Composition are major passions, along with music, cooking, dance, and books. If she's not working, she's taking care of loved ones (felines included), occasionally creating musical arrangements, or watching a classic film.
She hopes to promote joy, healing, faith, and love for the gift of Creation through her work, her core motive as an artist is to share beauty and inspiration with others.