She began her education with classic training as an artist at School of the Arts high school, and then Pratt institute in NY where she fell in love with abstract painting and color based work. Her investigation into textiles bagan as a little girl, sewing with her mom, but became a much more sculptural exploration when she was in graduate school at California College of Arts and deeply involved in installation textile sculptures for Burning Man and other independent galleries. She continues to paint, draw and make other textile art everyday. Art will always be a way for her to process the challenges of life as well as celebrate the joys.
During her twenties she traveled around the world as a yoga teacher and spiritual practitioner, which came to inform her relationship to abstract painting, among many things. She developed a strong relationship to the way the spaces we live in influence our relationship to ourselves and each other, not just visual aesthetics but the emotional dynamics as well. She lived in, made paintings for and decorated many different spaces in the yoga and spiritual community around the world, as well as producing a line of clothing she designed out of Thailand and was fundamental in the founding of a Tantric permaculture community.
During her thirties Audrey focused on her family, becoming a mother to two children as well as a homemaker, which she took very literally, learning woodworking and upholstery, as well as remodeling multiple residential spaces. During these years she also founded and directed a childcare co-op and environmental nonprofit, while these projects were short lived they taught her a lot about project management, communication and business planning. She began studying upholstery formally in 2013 and has been in love with it ever since. This eventually lead her to focusing on upholstery, project management and interior design professionally with a strong focus on the emotional or spiritual relationships to the spaces we live in.
Whether she is making furniture, paintings, building community and connection, or decorating spaces she always respects the nature of the materials, the way the space will be lived in, working from the beginning to create a emotional dynamic that invites us in with its sensuality, color, clear functionality and timeless design.
Audrey Veronica Haller 