Kiva Motnyk is an artist and designer from San Francisco. Some aims within Motnyk’s work are to create beautiful and delicate objects for the home having a strong focus on experimentation in relation to textile art. Exploration into the interwoven connections between nature, art and industry through the process of conception, making and discovering of new things along the way.
Collaboration is extremely important to Motnyk as she feels it helps her develop as an artist and designer pulling inspiration from her surrounding be that family, friends, tradition and community. She fully immerses herself in her work letting the work speak to her as if the two are having a conversation.
I really like the transparent quality to Motnyk’s work also the way in which she creates a collage exposing the bare and raw edges of the fabric referring to the natural qualities it possesses. Motnyk naturally dyes and dries all of her artworks to keep them pure and fully organic.