Every Piece Starts as Original Art
When you walk through zaviawalker.com, you will see dresses and swimsuits, wallpaper and pillows, cushions and canvas art. It can look like a lot of different things. But it all starts in one place: an original painting.
Every print in this studio begins as a painting I make by hand — watercolour, acrylic, whatever the piece asks for. The Coconut print started as a watercolour of coconut trees in Jamaica, brown like the dried coconut, green like the palm. Green Goddess started as a vivid green canvas with flecks of lime and yellow. Country Fowl, Negril, Coastal Muse, Roots — each one began on paper or canvas before it ever became a product.
From painting to product
Once a painting is finished, the print can live in many ways. It can be printed as a fine art print or a canvas for a collector. It can become wallpaper for a room, a fabric for a dress or a kaftan, a cushion for a sofa, or a scarf you take on vacation. The print is the art; the product is how you live with it.
That is what a design studio means to me. I am not a shop that buys stock and sells it on. I make the art, and then I help you decide what it becomes.
Who the studio is for
Homeowners come to me for art and wallpaper when they are redesigning a room. Vacation clients want a dress, a bikini or a kaftan in a print that feels like the place they love. Interior designers source art, wallpaper and decor for their projects. Fashion designers commission custom fabrics with my prints. And art collectors buy the originals and the limited-edition prints.
If you are any of those people — or if you just love a print and want it on something — you are in the right place.
Start with a print
Browse the Print Library to see the prints, or start a custom piece and tell me what you have in mind. Every piece starts as original art. Yours can too.
