We recently connected with Sara Noyes and have shared our conversation below.

Sara , appreciate you joining us today. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is my flash posters for my first design class final. It was the biggest project I did while I was in school. The final piece consisted of three 14”x 17” posters that were a mixed of hand drawn designs and hand printed linoleum cuts. Each poster centered around a specific theme, and were inspired by the style of Sailor Jerry hand painted tattoo flash sheets. These themes were nostalgia, love, and body positivity. The posters individually expressed a facet of my life I was exploring with recently moving to Portland earlier that year. This body of work as a whole showed who I was to the world and took everything I got in terms of technical skill.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

My name is Sara, I’m a 22 year old artist and I run the psychedelic art love child, Electric Daisies! My work is all things far out and colorful! The motto I live by is be groovy or leave! I’ve been involved in art for as long as I can remember. I’m a painter at heart, but have since geared my practice towards graphic design and printmaking. I really threw myself into being a full time artist when I moved from Minnesota to Oregon in 2019. My work started to take off after I learned many skills in college, one of them being printmaking. My lino cut textiles and clothing gave me a space to delve into other ventures. Lately I focus on stickers, pins, and zines. I believe art should be accessible to all and graphic design can be used to get art to the masses. The problem I feel I solve for others is giving the space for folks to be weird, queer, reminisce, and feel any spectrum of desired emotion. Overall I am so thankful for art and others who enjoy and support it.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

The moment that stands out was when I had to make an official post saying I was stepping away from the social media side and selling art for a bit. Like most people, my mental health declined as the pandemic wore on. I was doing art school full time and was drowning. I was still trying to have it all by going to school and doing art to sell on the side. I knew I had to pick just one to focus on for sake of my sanity. So I obviously picked school, but I knew I would be back to selling art. In January 2021, I made my social media comeback. This time I had an Etsy, professional photos of my pieces, and an updated instagram. Even though it was over a four month long period of trusting the process, working on mental health and getting back to it, it was definitely worth it.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

Right off the bat I would most definitely say connecting with people! Being able to participate in local art markets has opened up my world artistically ten fold. Whether its making connections and friendships with other creatives, or having someone walking by be so hyped about a piece, its all so exhilarating and rewarding. These interactions are the ones I remember when it gets hard some days.     

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SaraNoyesArt
• Instagram: @electric__daisies (two underscores)

Image Credits
The one feature photo of me was taken by my friend Raeya Sunshine. Their instagram is @sunshinesroom