Meet the Artists

Each Good Notes design has been created by an artist. We strongly believe in supporting the arts, and our artists benefit from participating by receiving ten percent of the profit of the sale of their cards. We have some great artists creating designs for our notes, take a look at who they are and what they do.

Christine Bailey

I’m an idealist and a dreamer, and I believe that life is in the simple details. My desire with my writing, art, and photography is that I would continue learning to embrace every single day. With photographs, this usually comes through the eye of a macro lens so I can explore the beauty around me by showcasing tiny, intricate details – perhaps of a flower petal, or the sun hitting a blade of grass. I am not formally trained in photography – I just shoot what I love, what captures my eye, what inspires me. I share my photos, art, and writings on my blog Dreams of Simple Life. I believe that everyone has some creative spark in them, because we were all made by a Creator, and it’s just a matter of finding what that creativity means to you.

Liz Downey

I’ve always been drawn to creating art in any and all forms, and have yet to truly settle on a favorite medium. Whether painting, drawing, sculpting, molding, or soldering, the ultimate joy is in starting a project one moment and then looking up the next and realizing that moment has stretched into hours and I haven’t even noticed.

Courtney Oquist

My work deals with the ephemeral, transformative and mutative qualities inherent to existence. Through a process of adding and subtracting from the surface of the painting I arrive at a place that is actively becoming and in process. I use painting as a medium between physical and metaphysical space, exploring the moment of rupture between representation and abstraction, between human and animal bodies, and between material and mental states. Brushstrokes become forms, people become animals, animals become plants, paint becomes surface, and surface becomes thought.

Guided by intuition, my paintings unfold, are painted over, and covered up, incorporating many layers, from the looseness of an under painting to more carefully rendered moments to create an atmosphere that is in multiple states of becoming, revealing itself to me as much as to another viewer. I am interested in showing through paint handling as well as the flow of content that there is something unstable, vacillating and mutable about the world in itself and the way one interacts with the world, as if a mutating raft on an agitating sea.

You can view my work on my website and at my Etsy shop.

Christopher Robb

Chris graduated from University of the Pacific with a self-designed degree focused on History, Writing and Studio Art with a concentration in Photography. While at Pacific, he worked on publishing a book called Downtown Stockton with his photography mentor and professor Daniel Kasser. It is a re-photographic survey and history of Stockton, California. He did much of the research, scanning and editing, and has one of his photographs published in the book. This experience would not only teach him about the field he would eventually go into, but also about respecting history, art, people and life.

Aside from his current work with Inhouse Creative Studios, he also continues to follow his personal passion with photography which can be seen at christopherrobb.com.