The Artist

Iona Skye Howie is a Montréal-based illustrator and surface designer with a foundation in traditional oil painting. She has a particular passion for pattern design and the intersection of illustration with home and lifestyle goods. While she is fond of experimenting with various artistic media, she prefers to work in gouache and coloured pencil and enjoys creating hand-drawn digital artwork. She also often loves to incorporate playful hand-lettering into her work.

Iona finds inspiration in both Medieval Manuscript Illumination and the Arts and Crafts movement. She greatly admires the intricate beauty of the natural world and delights in depicting stylized flora and fauna richly imbued with colour, texture and fine detail.

Some of her personal interests include gardening, reading, cooking, dragons, eating chocolate and studying herbalism.