ART + DESIGN
Plante Creative Studio is a visual art and design studio in RVA.
Specializing in publication design, visual identity, and advertising design, the studio’s services include art direction and design, web graphics, and production services.
Let’s get creative.
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Multidisciplinary Artist and Freelance Designer
Welcome to Plante Creative Studio. My name is Alyson Plante and I bring over 25 years of experience as an art director and graphic designer. As a multidisciplinary artist, I enjoy working as a painter, photographer, and creative writer.
DESIGN: I have a BFA degree in Design from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Through Plante Creative Studio, I provide creative solutions and production services to publishers, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations. My professional work focuses on publication design, visual identity, advertising design, and web graphics.
VISUAL ART: As a painter, I enjoy the palimpsest approach which embraces the eroding and layering of surfaces as a representation of memories and lived experiences. My paintings are expressive and layered through overlapping visuals, intuitive mark-making, scrapings, and imperfections which include visible erasures and ghosted visuals. My painterly style and vibrant exploration of color and imagery are defining elements in my art. My paintings and photography have been shown regionally and have been commissioned for commercial and private projects.
WRITING: I’m an avid reader and writer who explores the human condition through literary fiction and poetry. My poetry has appeared in online journals, on street murals in Charlotte, in art exhibitions in Richmond, and in creative vending machines in DC. My poetry chapbooks include Void Darlings and Overgrown Gardens. I’m currently working on a short story collection.
What inspires the work?
My approach is multidisciplinary so I work across several creative disciplines. In this way I continue to sharpen my artistic and technical abilities as I keep discovering, learning, and engaging with this ever-changing world.
As an art director and designer I enjoy working with clients to develop effective visual and strategic solutions for their projects. I work well with deadlines and enjoy focusing on clarity and understanding.
With photography and video it’s about staying curious, being mindful, and having a disciplined eye. I love capturing the details of old industrial buildings and cityscapes, exploring the nuanced textures and beauty of decaying rural landscapes, as well as capturing the shadowy mysteries found in nature during a walk in the woods. My work typically explores light and shadow, fragments and movement and impermanence, and often features strange kaleidoscopic, mirrored imagery.
As a creative writer, I enjoy exploring the human condition through literary fiction and poetry. I celebrate those traditions and deep connections that exist between visual art and creative writing. Writing allows me to remain creative and engaged, it’s a process that sharpens my senses, and is another way to explore ideas and to think deeply, and, ultimately, it is a way to engage with others. That is to say, when I’m not working on a project, I’m usually reading in order to learn from other writers.
And then there’s painting. Painting is about exploring gesture and movement, color and texture and shapes, imagery and style and creative expression. I’m passionate about the work I create in my studios here in Virginia. Being an artist truly is a wonderful way to explore life. I’m mesmerized by vibrant color, I love playing with pattern and texture, and I tend to build up my canvases with layers of intuitive brushstrokes and erasures. Mixed media projects also invite the exploration of different materials, tools, and found objects.
As for inspiration, all sorts of things capture my imagination: nature, landscapes, music, memories, people, film, travel, dreams, mythology and stories. But mostly I just really enjoy taking pride in my work.
Let’s Get Creative.
If you need art direction, print design services, digital design, or advertising design, Plante Creative Studio is here to help.
Feeling Artsy?
Thank you for your interest in my creative work. Artist’s CV, pricing, and further details are available upon request.