MEET THE ARTIST
Sweet Grind’s Artist Page exists to connect coffee and creativity. We showcase independent and emerging artists by featuring their work on limited edition merchandise, packaging and sharing their stories with our growing community. We do this to celebrate and support talent beyond traditional galleries, and make art part of the everyday growing coffee industry. Any artist can apply year round by applying for our competitions when live or contact us through our contact form for more information. By collaborating with artists, we keep our brand fresh, support growing creatives, and make every brew more inspiring.
We believe artists deserve more than exposure so 5% of every sale from their collection goes directly to the artist, helping them earn from doing what she loves and keep creating the work that inspires us all.
I'm Abbie from Wrexham, North Wales. I am a full-time geography teacher teaching in the Wrexham area. As a teacher, I am naturally powered by caffeine and so finding this local coffee company was something I thought would be interesting to get involved with.
I have always drawn from a young age. I've always been an artist drawing anything that I could and using every bit of scrap paper that I could get my hands on in the house. Over recent years I've moved towards more digital artwork and I've done it through my two different art accounts. One focusing more on drawing, skulls and still life and more dark art stuff with tarot cards. Then the other side of it is doing pet portraits and doing something that I know makes other people happy. I thought at one point I was going to be a tattoo artist and that was one of my major drives in doing all of my drawings. But I kind of realised that I'm happy enough having someone else tattoo my drawings to me and just drawing for the fun of it.
I enjoy my job as a teacher but art is kind of my release and my de-stress from a very demanding job. At one point I wanted to do a as a career path but over time I've realised that teaching is something that I am good at and I am proud of what I do. So art is always going to be there as my safety net as something for me to go back to.
When I saw the art competition on Instagram I thought you know what. It's a good opportunity for me to branch out and try something different, use prompts that I would never have seen before to come up with something a bit more creative and thought that for a North Wales business it deserved a logo that screamed Wales as a start off. I thought I would put my own spin on it in the fact that when I could have thought of this design, I was thinking of all of the kind of emo stuff that I grew up with inspired a little bit by the kind of style that Vans do and their whole aesthetic. I wanted it to be edgy.
I wanted it to look different. I wanted it to scream skeletons and I wanted it to scream coffee so hence why the gaps are filled with little coffee beans just to give it that shape of Wales. One of my main goals though as I was designing it was to create something that I would love to spend money on and wear myself as someone who is a bit of a coffee fanatic.
