Catwingz Design About the Artist

I am a solopreneur. My primary business is Findable Design where, as "website therapist," I offer a mix of web marketing strategy, web & graphic design, and coaching services to small businesses. Additionally, to create new revenue streams I have begun leveraging my creative skills by developing some spin-off endeavors.

Career #1 was in horticulture, working in retail, wholesale, mail order, as a propagator and owning my own small nursery. I also earned a Certificate in Landscape Design, creating in 3D with rocks and plants.

Career #2 was as a bookseller, officially a gift and calendar buyer. I worked with sales reps, travelled a bit, handled merchandise from ordering to receiving, display, and returns, with a lot of customer service throughout.

I went back to school and completed Certificates in both Fine Art and Time Art (animation) and my degree in Graphic Design in 2012, with a grand finale of a six-month web design internship in Cape Town, South Africa, coming from Portland, Oregon in the US.

So the design business is Career #3. Now it is time to re-imagine it and I am beginning to diversify by launching other brands, supporting and expressing my creativity in new ways. This is also giving me an excuse to include cats in the mix. Each one is something I am passionate about.

The first is Tractor Cats with an eCommerce website offering fulfillment products featuring photography of two cats exploring old farm machinery. The photos are on mugs, puzzles and calendars. The logo for the brand is monetized on soft-goods like t-shirts and hoodies.

As they launch the others will be announced here, and other changes will occur.

My most serious passion projects have been sitting very firmly on the backburner and I have not given up on the intention to bring them to life. I have two screenplays for animated films, one a short, "The Rose Petal Footprints", and the other intended to become a full length animated film, "The Roar of the Cat*erpillar." There is also a documentary with footage and interviews from Cape Town which deserves completion.