Maker Faire Pensacola 2023
Bitknight Designs and A Sunflowerdaze
Home: Florida, United States
As the Downtown Crowd official Power Couple, Sean Bush and Lindsey Hampton provide a space for more than one type of art-loving audience here in Pensacola. Sean connects with the pop-culture audience through his digital and oil painted illustrations. Meanwhile, Lindsey curates conversations with fine art audiences curious about her figurative oil paintings. This year Lindsey will host a brief discussion on color theory with her live painting while Sean shares videos of his process from start to finish. There will be Q&A for anyone interested in learning more.
https://www.lindseyhampton.live/
Makers
Sean Bush
Sean Lee Bush is an emerging multimedia artist in the Gulf Coast Panhandle of Pensacola, Florida. His bread and butter work consists of digital illustrations as well as oil paintings. In May 2022, Sean graduated from the University of West Florida with a bachelor of fine arts, digital art. Sean’s work has been displayed in several exhibitions, most recently include: UWF’s Pop Up shows, the Pensacola Museum of Art members show, The Artel Gallery’s “Go Figure” show, and the UWF BFA exit show “Synthesis”. He has been published in the 2014 issue “Starbursts” from Lonestar College -Kingwood, as well as the July 2021 issue “Supporting Local Artists at the Pensacola Arts Market”. He has also won several awards for his work, including 1st place in the 2D category for the 2014 Lonestar College Student Art Show, as well as 1st place in Artistic Appeal and Dean’s Choice for the 2019 Da Vinci Innovation Celebration contest. After graduating he launched his business, Bitknight Designs, which allows
https://bitknightdesigns.com/
Lindsey Hampton
https://www.lindseyhampton.live/What Inspired You to Make This?
Sean has always loved pop culture media and has always wanted to make fan art as a reaction to it since he was young. Lindsey has always been fascinated with human nature and the love for figural oil painting. With her most recent works, she has discovered the positive influence of her self-portraits and their natural conversations of self-actualization.
