Seattle artist Caitlin Dundon is known for her trademark handwritten script and colorful mixed media paintings. She is a professional calligrapher and instructor in both mixed media collage and pointed pen calligraphy. She has been an instructor at: Letters of Joy, Seattle, WA; Art is You, Petaluma, CA; Art & Soul Mixed Media Retreat, Portland OR, Kansas City, MO; Minneapolis, MN; Art Unraveled, Phoenix, AZ; the West Coast Calligraphy Society in British Columbia, Canada; Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM and the Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA

Dundon’s work has appeared in Letter Arts Magazine, Seattle Magazine, Seattle Business Monthly, Seattle Bride, Manhattan Bride and The Frye Art Museum. She has been featured on television on an episode of The Style Fyle, with Kerry Damiano reporting, Seattle Channel’s City-A-Go-Go, with Nancy Guppy reporting, and mentioned in the Washington Post. She has written articles and been featured in Somerset Studio Magazine, the Somerset Place blog and Art Journaling magazines. Her recent book by Schiffer Publishing, The Painted Word: Mixed Media Lettering Techniques is now available on Amazon.

Born in Rochester, New York in 1967, Dundon graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Communication Design. She moved to Seattle in 1989 and worked as a graphic designer and production manager before starting her own company in 1996, creating one-of-a-kind handscripted keepsake boxes under the name One Heart Studio. After working with customers and craft gallery buyers directly for over ten years, she started to license her art in 2003 through Sagebrush Fine Art. Dundon’s art has been published as posters, greeting cards, plaques, wall tiles, journals cotton throws and fabric – some featuring the artist’s own original text.

Dundon is also a published children’s book author. The Yellow Umbrella, illustrated by Sandra Speidel (Simon & Schuster, 1994) was named Pick of the Lists by the American Bookseller’s Association.

Her studio is located in Seattle, Washington where she lives with her husband, Randy Woods.