Canadian illustrator and creative practitioner splitting time between Alberta and Nova Scotia. Amber Solberg draws on flora, fauna, and fantasy across illustration, mural work, embroidery, and print.



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Canadian illustrator and creative practitioner splitting time between Alberta and Nova Scotia. Amber Solberg draws on flora, fauna, and fantasy across illustration, mural work, embroidery, and print. She holds a Visual Arts Diploma from Red Deer College and a BFA from NSCAD University, and maintains an active teaching and facilitation practice alongside her commercial illustration work.
Whimsical, nature-led illustration with expressive character. The portfolio features botanical compositions - rice flower studies and organic motifs - in a warm, hand-rendered style. Mural work demonstrates large-scale confidence and bold character illustration suited to public and community contexts.
Watercolour, ink, and embroidery thread are primary media. Practice spans technical and expressive registers across scales from embroidered pins to city-block murals. Teaching practice encompasses illustration, embroidery, and storytelling workshops.
Illustration commissions, community mural projects, educational workshops, and creative sector facilitation. Art Director for NFP kindness society Altruistic Current (@altc.ca). The portfolio features wall mural and large-format character illustration applications.
Training at Red Deer College (AB, Visual Arts Diploma) and NSCAD University (NS, Interdisciplinary BFA). Practice developed across illustration commissions, community mural coordination (7 projects, 300+ participants), workshop teaching (via @all.by.hand.art.classes), and event facilitation. Maintains a creative opportunities resource channel (@you.got.this.gigs).
Limited selected pattern evidence (3 images). The portfolio features botanical repeat work - a rice flower composition in a triadic colourway - consistent with the broader illustrative practice. Image evidence is insufficient to characterise the full pattern range; the illustrative practice is more extensively documented.













Canadian illustrator and creative practitioner splitting time between Alberta and Nova Scotia. Amber Solberg draws on flora, fauna, and fantasy across illustration, mural work, embroidery, and print.
Style and Aesthetic Whimsical, nature-led illustration with expressive character. The portfolio features botanical compositions - rice flower studies and organic motifs - in a warm, hand-rendered style.
Pattern Focus Limited selected pattern evidence (3 images). The portfolio features botanical repeat work - a rice flower composition in a triadic colourway - consistent with the broader illustrative practice.
Markets and Clients Illustration commissions, community mural projects, educational workshops, and creative sector facilitation. ca). The portfolio features wall mural and large-format character illustration applications.
Techniques and Tools Watercolour, ink, and embroidery thread are primary media. Practice spans technical and expressive registers across scales from embroidered pins to city-block murals. Teaching practice encompasses illustration, embroidery, and storytelling workshops.
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Career Path Training at Red Deer College (AB, Visual Arts Diploma) and NSCAD University (NS, Interdisciplinary BFA). classes), and event facilitation. gigs).
Amber Solberg is a Illustrator. Browse their portfolio and contact them for projects.