About us
Dawn has created art all of her life, and couldn’t stop if she wanted to. She also collects vintage maps and travel posters—and probably couldn’t stop that either if she wanted to. Her pieces leverage cutting, folding, painting, layering, collaging—and often the before mentioned maps and travel ephemera. Her art reflects her love of travel, vintage things as well as the coastal California mountains where she lives.
Whimsy, nature, and beach life completely inform and inspire her work’s subject matter, color palettes and materials. She works with interior designers nationally and also sells her pieces throughout the San Francisco Area and on sites like One Kings Lane, and Ethan Allen.
Nestled in the coastal Santa Cruz Mountains, surrounded by a redwood forest, is artist Dawn Wolfe’s studio. Enveloped by nature, she finds inspiration for her multilayered three-dimensional works — depicting monarch butterflies, deer, and other creatures—right in her own backyard. Using exquisite cotton papers, watercolors, and a methodical arts- and-crafts process, she turns scans of photographs, old love letters, fabric scraps, vintage maps, and other mementos into unified pieces of art. The results have the same magical, folkloric feel as her light-filled studio in the woods.