AU T U MN / W IN T E R 2020
Meet an Artist
1
Maitland-based artist and graphic designer Jaime Pritchard, who has a serious love of paper, finds joy in both collaborating and retreating into the quiet reverie of making in her studio. Each weekday morning, after sipping a ristretto or two at a Maitland cafÊ, Jaime Pritchard strolls across to her studio by the Hunter River to begin her day’s work. Her studio is on the ground floor of The Factory, a collective of creatives that Jaime and her partner, Sean Ballenden, a musician, producer and audio engineer, set up in 2017.
natural winemaker, to creating a mixed media abstract artwork, to painting, sewing and knotting paper as she develops a sculptural installation piece for an exhibition. She has taken a bold step into the freelance life, with all the excitement, freedom, and challenges that presents, after many years working as a full-time graphic designer.
A day in the artistic life of Jaime can include anything from a graphic design job for an organic flower grower or
Jaime grew up on the mid North Coast and moved to Newcastle in 1997, studying Graphic Design at Hunter TAFE 24
