My name is Elwyn Crawford and I am the hat making, history loving, big thinking, action woman who writes this blog. Please check out my company O’Lover Hats if you dig hats.
“I have always loved my creative faculties most and knew in my late teens I was being called to the life of an artist. While at Smith College, I took many different classes outside of my interdisciplinary major of American Studies, from video art production to drawing to scene design to music hearing. I also had a radio show. Like many early twenty-somethings I didn’t feel compelled to know exactly what I wanted to do as a career.”
“When i graduated I took my first mixed media class through Berkeley extension. I continued to pursue djing, drawing and dance yet remained uncertain of how to actualize my artistic inclinations into work. I began journaling daily, recording my inspirations and frustrations.
“In my search I left the United States and moved to London where my brother was studying at the British Library and one of my good friends from college was living. In London i spent most of my time when not working walking around town visiting libraries, galleries and it was here that I first saw truly inspired millinery. I began to dream about making hats. I returned to the US and spent another two years exploring decoupage and sculpture before realizing that hats were simply another expression of that act in a new medium. The last six and a half years have led to increasingly delightful experiments within this artform.”
Like I said, www.oloverhats.com
