And you thought there were only so many interesting uses for a Sharpie pen. Not so. Enter emerging artist, Justine Ashbee, who free hands beautiful, organic drawings using exclusively the pungent markers usually reserved for labeling moving boxes or crossing off dates on the calendar. Yeah, that means no erasing. Can you imagine?

While you can often find her abstract work in galleries from New York to New Mexico (we actually first spotted her stuff at Bumbershoot this year), we were excited when the RISD grad emailed us over the Thanksgiving holiday about NOISE, a new design project featuring affordable screen printed canvases and t-shirts that she's currently selling on Etsy. Hello, most original holiday gift ever.

"The amorphous entities and reaching tentacles emerge and take form much like the navigation of a surfer within a wave," explains the artist. "I begin with a curve, from which lines and forms begin to emerge, evolve, morph, and grow organically, in an intuitive flow, while maintaining delicate, elegant precision."

Talented and visionary...just think of all trouble she could get into with a big old box of crayons!

For more information on Justine and her upcoming exhibitions, check out her Web site, here.

- Caroline Stanley

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