Your dreams remember you...
Stephanie F. Lenchard-Warren (SFLW) weaves together narratives through illustration, writing, and song. She is interested in the bridge between the conscious and subconscious and how dreams seep into our constructs of reality. Her work exists somewhere between the two, layering the lens of the inner child and wise adult to create a dark and fantastical world that explores themes such as life and death, scars and healing, trauma and self-autonomy, and the irony of the inherent dichotomous nature of existence.
Stephanie came out of the womb with a pen in her hand and an insatiable curiosity for the word. She earned a scholarship to attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Early College Program at the age of 16 and obtained a BFA from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana where she was able to draw inspiration from other subjects such as botany, literature, anatomy, and mythology. Currently, she is also exploring East Asian arts, oriental and Nordic folklore, Japanese language, and swordsmanship. SFLW has won various awards in art, writing, and music and has shown across the United States in places including Chicago, Washington DC, and Santa Fe. She lives in Chicago with her wolfish sidekick, Cobalt. You can follow her adventures on Instagram.
