Connie is an artist of many mediums based in Portland, Oregon. She loves to follow a creative whim wherever it may lead — whether it is in graphic design, drawing, tattooing, ceramics, or apparently, pattern making. As a wife and a mother of three, her creative work finds its place mostly in the margins of a beautifully chaotic family life. As an introvert, she tries to create from a self-reflective place — to create pieces that tell stories, evoke emotion, and invite connection.

Julz Clementine is an illustrator, designer, teacher, and muralist based in Portland, Oregon. Inspired by presence and discovery, her work blends tactile materials with bold visual storytelling. From murals and city street placemaking to swimwear and stationery, her art spans a wide range of mediums and surfaces. She has collaborated with brands like Storey Publishing, Kroger, Nutcase Helmets, Burgerville, and more - always aiming to spark joy and offer a fresh, playful perspective.

Julz is passionate about empowering others to connect with their creativity through hands-on experiences. She leads adult & family workshops with the Portland Art Museum and runs Hummingbird Art Camp, where local kids explore the intersection of art and nature. Whether teaching or painting murals, Julz brings a grounded, generous approach - reminding us that art isn’t just something we make, but something we live.

Zoë Linn Anderson is an artist and surface designer based in Portland, Oregon. She began her career in textiles as a surface designer for a women’s and children's clothing line based in NYC. She has since created original designs for various surfaces including apparel, accessories, and home decor.

Zoë's artistic style draws inspiration from Pacific NW fauna and flora, folk art, food, and pop culture references. Her patterns are created with pencil sketches, watercolor paintings, ink drawings, and vector illustrations.

She earned her BA in fine art painting.

Take a look at Zoë's lovely work via her instagram @zoelinnanderson and her home textile website.

Zoë's designed past favorite prints Party Guac and Mushroom Magic. You'll see another one from her in 2025!

Anna Miller is a freelance artist based in Portland, Oregon. She is a printmaker, painter, surface designer, and illustrator.

Originally hailing from the rural farmland of southeastern Pennsylvania, Anna is firmly rooted in the history and folk art tradition of her regional birth community. Here in her Pacific Northwest home, Anna brings fresh life to Americana folk art in her contemporary patterns and designs.

Anna is particularly inspired by the lifelong art practice of her grandmother, Roma, who taught her the time-honored Pennsylvania-Dutch folk art of “fraktur” as a child. While certainly not always traditional, Anna’s flowers, leaves, birds, and patterns are often gestures to the classic folk art motifs passed down to her through generations.

Working in loose collections that revolve around one shape or idea, Anna often moves across mediums while following a single thread. Repeat patterns, textile prints, and folk illustration anchor much of her current work.

Anna illustrated our print Secret Garden and previous favorite Daisy Days - find more of her work here.

Greta Menzies is an artist and designer based in Wellington, NZ. Her multidisciplinary work reflect her interest in ideas of consciousness, belief and meaning-making. Greta is drawn to the grotesque as an aesthetic category with its tropes of doubleness, hybridity and metamorphosis, and as a mode of existential exploration. This comes with a sense of irreverence and subversive, absurd elements, often playing with opposites: beauty/ugly, male/female, reality/fantasy. Figuration is significant in her work.

Greta Menzies most current prints are Octo-Pants and Trippy, but she also designed Root Veggies, Hey Meow!, and lots of past and future prints as well!

Sara is a watercolor and digital surface pattern designer from Fort Collins Colorado where she lives with her 4 wild and free children and outdoorsy husband. To stay creative and in her flow state she spends time art journaling, moving her body and being playful.

Inspired by Mother Nature, childhood memories from Sweden from coast to the forests, gorgeous Colorado mountains and patterns she spots wherever she goes, her art tells a story and brings happiness and good energy to any space through her whimsical, textured and earthy style. 

She believes in fairies and the healing power of the sun. Pretty sure kindness can solve anything. Yes, she realizes how crazy it sounds.

Find Sara's work on her Instagram or her website. And find her print Two Fruits now!

Jack and Bec are sisters, illustrators, designers, and makers. The primary goal of Jack and Bec is to create art that uplifts marginalized communities and give the people of these communities much needed representation. Frequent themes in Jack and Bec's work include body positivity, deaf pride, LGBTQIA+ pride, mental health awareness, and pop culture.

Their artwork is fun, whimsical, and upbeat. Truly a pleasure to work with. Find Jack and Bec's print Boot Scootin' now and find their work on their website, instagram, and tiktok.

Meg Wagler is a midwest visual artist, illustrator and muralist known internationally for her colorful art and hand lettering. Her bold work is recognized for its vibrant palettes, striking compositions and messages of self love.

Meg's print Finding Flamingos definitely showcases her colorful and whimsical style! Find the rest of her work here.

Burcu Köleli is a visual artist and freelance illustrator based in Washington, USA. She is a passionate intersectional eco-feminist. She creates gouache paintings and digital illustrations. Her works are mainly inspired by activist movements and mindfulness practices. She creates inclusive artwork that celebrates women and nature. Her works aspire to bring joy with vibrant colors and playful style. She provides illustration, branding, graphic design, and content creation services. She works with art directors, NGOs, and companies with good values. 

Check our Burcu's website here. Find her print Bodies in Motion here.

Elana Gabrielle is a multidisciplinary illustrator, maker, and designer of printed textile and paper goods. Her work is influenced by the wild and varied landscapes of the West Coast where she grew up, from misty mountains and foggy beaches to dusty desert valleys. Using cut paper collage, painting, screen printing, and textile design, she weaves the natural world into her creations.

Her handmade goods mirror the environment by focusing on form and function, as well as using sustainable practices and natural fibers, dyes, and inks. Elana’s goods invite mindful interaction with nature both in the home and in the wild as a nurturing of self and space, and encourage care for the world around you.

Elana designed Autumn Equinox as well as some of our past prints and we hope to have more from her in the future.

Lisa Congdon is an internationally known fine artist, illustrator and writer. She makes art for clients around the globe, including Target, Amazon, Google, Warby Parker, Method, Comme des Garcons, REI and MoMA, among many others. She is the author of ten books, the host of her own podcast: The Lisa Congdon Sessions, and the cofounder of The Long Table Foundation. 

Lisa is self-taught and didn’t achieve momentum in her career until she was nearly 40 years old. Despite her untraditional path, Lisa has achieved recognition, not just as an artist, but as a leader in the industry for her work in social justice, knowledge sharing, mentoring and teaching. 

In March of 2021, she was named “One of the 50 Most Inspiring People and Companies According to Industry Creatives” published by AdWeek. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon. 

We are honored to have partnered with such a wonderful human! She designed the popular print Balance by Lisa Congdon.

Genesis Duncan is a Portland, Oregon-based designer and illustrator. 

Inspired by the economy of Scandinavian design, her travels, and a multicultural heritage, Genesis’s work is a bilingual mash-up of color, whimsical illustrations, and kind sentiments in English and Spanish. 

In 2010, she founded Graphic Anthology, a stationery & gift company that produces greeting cards and paper-related products in her signature illustrative style. She has worked with companies like Urban Outfitters, TJ Maxx, Serena & Lily, and West Elm, as well as hundreds of boutique retailers across the globe. You can find her work online at graphicanthology.com.

Genesis designed our previous print Hot Pants! You'll see another print from her in 2025!

Abbie is an illustrator out of Las Vegas who sells her artwork in the form of wrapping paper, pins, prints, notepads, and cards full time. Her artwork is encouraging, real, fun, and playful. Because that's how she does life!

Let's get to know Abbie a little better:

Things she hates in no particular order: marshmallows, whipped cream, spaghetti, jello, and evilness.

Things she does like: happy hour, board games, all the food, all the wine, podcasts, plants, and travel.

Stay up to date with Abbie's work and show her some support by following her on Instagram @AbbieRenIllustration and visiting her website.

Abbie illustrated our Under the Sea print, a past favorite, and truly a testament to her fun and whimsical style of illustration.

Rochelle Porter has never met a blank surface she didn’t want to draw on. A lifelong lover of global design traditions, the Atlanta-based artist takes cues from the breezy hues of her Caribbean roots, the stark simplicity of Scandinavian design and the bold geometrics of West African weaves to create vibrant, eye-catching textiles for the home décor and apparel markets. Her travel-inspired patterns feature joyful, unexpected bursts of color and classic motifs with a fresh, modern twist.

True to its tagline, “Design for abundant living,” the company believes everyone along the value chain should have the chance to live well—from the farmer who picks the pesticide-free organic cotton for its textiles, to the customer who puts them on her sofa. RPD prioritizes fair pay, environmentally safe manufacturing, and the use of allergy-free organic and recycled materials whenever possible.

Rochelle designed Bloem in Blue, a past print that was a big hit!

Anna Joyce is an artist, textile designer and author based in Portland, Oregon. Joyce is best known for her colorful hand dyed clothing and housewares collections. She has published two books, one on printing and painting called STAMP STENCIL PAINT (Abrams NY 2015) and HAND DYED (Abrams NY 2019) on dyeing by hand using indigo and fiber reactive dye.  Joyce leads hand dyeing workshops and artist retreats in Marrakech, Morocco twice a year and her work has been featured in Elle Decor, COOL HUNTING, The Zoe Report, the Drew Barrymore Show, The Today Show, RealSimple and Martha Stewart Living.Com. and Etsy's 2019, 2020 and 2021 trend forecast, plus many more!

Find her work here. Anna Joyce's Hot Hibiscus ice dye sold out fast but expect more from her soon.

Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Teresa Remple has been making a living through her textile work since 1992. Her clothing company, Texture Clothing, based in Bellingham, WA, was born out of the desire to create clothing that fit bodies with curves that she wasn’t able to find on the market. She uses organic fabrics, timeless designs, and small batch production. Through her career, she has played with a variety of dye techniques such as resist dying (batik), ice dying, stenciling, block printing, and screen printing (using both chemical dyes and natural dyes.

In her collaboration with Thunderpants, Teresa used a mineral dye method using iron rust. Find more of her work here. 

Lisa Rogers is the owner and natural dyer behind SlowDigz in California. She's inspired by nature, hand dying on natural fibers using raw botanicals, insects, and metals. She uses flowers, leaves, stems, and roots from her own dye garden along with local leaves to create color and design.

Follow Lisa on her botanical journey on Instagram @SlowDigz and check out her website www.SlowDigz.com.

Her botanical dye Wild and Free was a beautiful addition to our Limited Edition hand dyed line-up. We don't currently have any of her hand dyes in stock (they sell out really quick!) but expect more floral and botanical dyed Thundies by Lisa in the future.

Vibrant Valley Farm is located on the beautiful Sauvie Island, just a 15 minute drive from Portland. They grow food, flowers, and indigo while hosting events, partnering with local businesses, and being an integral part of our community.

Vibrant Valley Farm has had an interest and connection with indigo for many years. From their first planting and fresh dye class in 2016 to this batch of hand dyed Thundies, their journey has been full of learning, exploration, and artistic expression. Vibrant Valley Farm grows Persicaria Tinctoria, also known as Japanese Indigo. They started years ago by growing 600 plants and last year grew 10,000 plants, with seeds from three different sources - Baliwick Blue, Rowland Ricketts, and Grand Prismatic Seed.

Find our more about Vibrant Valley Farm and their practices here.

Kanda (she/they) is a model, musician, birthworker and artist local to Portland, Oregon. Kanda has always had an eye for crafts and loves to get their hands dirty. During the pandemic they started a tie dye business almost by chance as they only started dyeing for fun. When they are not dyeing, Kanda can be found working on their art, talking of liberation for people in a world ruled by capitalism and spending time with the folks they hold dear. 

You can find Kanda's art and dye work on her instagram: @psychedelic_baddie

We adore Kanda here at TPUSA and were honored to partner with them for our Limited Edition Ice Dye collection and hopefully more hand made collections in the future.