ABOUT

Twyla Feinbloom lives and works from her studio on her family’s ranch in Sonoma County, California. From an early age, she has felt a duality coursing through her life, having two very different family influences. She has a yearning to incorporate old traditions and abstract fluidity into a bold and contemporary genre. Raised by an architect father, much of her detailed and geometric designs she attributes to him, while the larger more abstract contours relate to her mother’s grounded and spiritual nature. Family ties and connection run deeply through her work, as do adornment and tradition, drawn from traditional cultures all over the world. 

Her training in drafting at an early age gave her an appreciation for a linear and modern aesthetic. Later years of classical realist training in both Florence, Italy and New York has shown her the composition and patience to make art your life's work.

Twyla has always had a unique approach to learning. She taught herself geography through her love of indigenous crafts, often traveling to different countries to seek them out as well as connect directly with those who create them. Strong influences from Africa, as well as pottery and textile arts from all over the world run deep in her work. Her home studio feels like a museum collection of arts and crafts, with the newest creations being her own work, art she has created as a modern parallel to the world’s traditional art she surrounds herself with.

Twyla’s vision is to create a space in the technological world, for a style that unites what is both old, and new, using bold lines to give a modern feel to art that feels undeniably ancient.