The Artist Behind the Atlas
Sophia has been drawing since before she can remember. Growing up in a family of artists — a great-grandmother who painted watercolors, a great-aunt who worked in oils, a grandfather who built things with wood, wire and code, and a father who could learn any craft and teach it to his kids — art was never a question. It was the air.
She tried other paths. Other phases, and career ideas. But it always circled back to art. It was the thing she came home to, the thing she was good at when other things felt hard, the thing that led her to great places and great people.
Why Painted Objects
Sophia doesn’t just paint on canvas. She paints on tote bags, shoes, jackets, hats — ordinary things that go out into the world. There’s a creative puzzle in figuring out how to wrap art around a new shape, and there’s something satisfying about making art that’s practical. Art you can carry. Art that travels with you.
What Inspires Her
Nature. Adventure. The view from the top of a hike. Sophia loves to travel and explore, and her subjects reflect that — sea turtles, whales, highland cows, mountain landscapes, forests. She captures stilled moments from the world around her and paints them onto things people can hold.
Her faith runs through it all. She doesn’t always know exactly how to show it visually, so sometimes she adds scripture directly to her work. She believes the gift to create art came from God, and she wants that light to shine through however it can.
The Name
The Art Atlas isn’t about maps. It’s about exploration — exploring different materials, different mediums, different canvases. It’s the spirit of an artist who never stops trying new things and never wanted to be boxed in. The compass rose in the logo is made of paintbrushes because every direction leads somewhere worth painting.
“A small idea that I hope God makes big.”
Someday, Sophia wants to open a community art center — a place where families and artists can come together, try new crafts and skills, create without having to buy all the supplies and find a place to store them. A space where people can be creative, meet each other, and spend real time together. And the profits? Those would go to charities and outreach projects.
That’s what success looks like to her. Not fame. Not a brand empire. A room full of people making things, together.
Dyslexia & Art
Sophia has dyslexia. She was lucky to have good people around her growing up, but it still meant extra pressure, extra work, and the feeling of always catching up. Reading was the hardest part. But art? Art was the place where she could breathe. The subject she was already good at. The thing that gave her confidence when other things took it away.
That’s one reason this website has a readability mode. If letters are tricky for you too, we’ve got you.