Hi there.

I’m Candice, a visual and textile artist based in Central Ohio.

I knit, and spin, and sew, and garden, and make jams and jellies and draw and paint and… well, I have a lot of interests.

Creating has always been a major part of my life, whether it was creating my own illustrated stories as a child using notebook paper and stencils, or raiding my mom’s sewing box to hand-stitch an apron for her for Mother’s Day. As I grew up, the creative outlet shifted – music and writing/poetry in middle school and high school, personal website design (long before social media as we now know it) as a young adult, etc – but the need to process my feelings and environment around me always occurred through some form of art.

I’ve had a varied career path, often choosing the “safe” route over the artistic one, and I worked for over 16 years in local county government while completing website and graphic design projects on the side with my husband. In 2021, after a grueling year of COVID response while working in public health, I opened my brick-and-mortar yarn shop, Stitch & Skein, and left traditional employment.  I not only sold yarn but taught classes, problem solved patterns and dropped stitches, and served as a creative community hub for the knitters, crocheters, and fiber artists in the Central Ohio area.

About a year into my retail adventures it became clear that I needed a different creative outlet – it was no longer sustainable for me to both knit for business and leisure. So, in January 2022, I resolved to make the year one of Making More Art! I dug out an old, barely used sketchbook, downloaded the Sketch a Day app, and made some little doodles and sketches (almost) daily. Before long, what felt like a silly little selfish habit had bloomed into a rediscovery of an old love. Soon I would sign up for – and complete – many months of daily drawing lessons via A Dad Who Draws, where Kurt taught me how to really see as an artist, break down and/or combine references to translate into a sketch, and received invaluable help that set me on the path I am on today.

In September 2025, just 2.5 years after that initial resolution to make more art, I mustered up some courage and submitted a piece of art for the very first time to the Mid-Ohio Fine Art Society’s annual exhibition, and my gouache painting, “Bluejay,” took 2nd place in the painting division.