If you linger on the smallest details, have found and carried around a feather or bone, or saved your molars long after they were removed, you’re likely to fall for Hand & Shadow.
The natural world in both it’s blossom and decay exist in tandem – drawing you closer than ever before to the neck of a howling beast or the cracks of a human skull.  There is a beauty revealed here. Teeth are mistaken for lace or pearls and hair flows and curls like fine ribbons.

The designs of Hand & Shadow pay attention to all the small things, not missing a stray hair or cracked tooth. All garments are printed by hand in East Vancouver.  This allows the uniqueness of each print to show in the variance of colour, texture and placement.  They are made in small volumes using sustainable, sweatshop free products where possible. The inks used are pigment or bleach based leaving each garment soft to the touch and will not crack or fade.

Georgie collects images and things compulsively that form the basis for her drawn and altered printed images. She is inspired by many things, among them the Victorians, nature and natural history, scientific illustration - modern and ancient, museum collections, contemporary craft, and textile art.

She has moved across the country from Ontario to the coast of British Columbia, and managed to trek around both sides of the border in between.  A graduate from Emily Carr University, she was a founding member of Seamprippers Craft Collective. Eventually she saw that her practice could best take shape in the form of a company that produced her screen printed images on clothing + textiles. Hand and Shadow is the fruits of this kind of labor, careful screens crafted from both found images and the hand drawn.

She’s a little bit scientist and a little bit seamstress in all that she makes.  Her work appreciates a beauty that is real and a little rough, even frightening at times, but all the while accessible in the beauty one can’t help but want to linger, just a little longer on.