Featured Artist: Digsy
Take a walk through a winter landscape with DBH artist, Digsy, and the subdued colors, open spaces, and quiet solitude found within each of her designs. Her nature-focused artwork – which she describes as having a “very flat style, simple almost” – makes you feel as if you’ve just stepped outside for a brisk stroll on a hushed frosty morning.
Digsy, or Dianne, lives in London, England, and quips, “I’m on the wrong side of my 30s.” Although one of her favorite pastimes was going to music concerts, after COVID-19 she learned to embrace her inner homebody and now appreciates sitting “in the bath with pizza, wine, and Netflix.” Her future goal is simply to create “more” art. She believes that creativity is a cathartic experience and is about “taking something inside you and throwing it out into the world.” Digsy appreciates working with DBH because “to be up on the same page as some of these people is really special to me.”
She finds inspiration for her art in the most random places like a “sign in a grocery story that sparks an idea, or a song on the radio, or a piece of packaging that has an element I like.”
Even with constant inspiration, she admits that she struggles with focus and becomes “very easily distracted – and can give up on a really good idea quite easily if it’s not going my way.” She learned that she must push through this feeling because – even if the process is difficult – the result can be rewarding and beautiful.
Digsy admits that she, too, has struggled with confidence in her skill and has even turned down jobs for fear of failing. However, she encourages other artist not to “be scared to show people what you do, be proud of it, learn from your past work and just have faith in your work!”
Her greatest accomplishment, or the piece entitled “The Geometry of Sunrise”, is something that she is truly proud to have created. The piece, once finished, was exactly as she envisioned it would be – something that all artists can agree is difficult to execute.
She jokes that she now spends most of her time making takedown requests from people trying to pass her work off as their own. Still, she recognizes that imitation is the highest form of flattery and “they say you know you’ve achieved something when other people steal it though!”
