Perryn Ryan Ford is the latest breakthrough artist who has joined Traffic Creative Management for exclusive worldwide representation. Ryan Ford, a contemporary figurative illustrator and painter honors the beautiful landscape of the female form and rejoices in the constant flow of movement. Abstract shapes and expressive lines intertwine and mingle together to create surrealist forms that flow across the page with ease. This is precisely what brands like Kate Spade, Urban Outfitters and Pure Leaf Tea seek when they discovered her.
For her creative process Perryn Ryan Ford reveals, “once I’ve decided on the figure’s pose that embodies the energy or idea that I want to express, I begin sketching. I like to sketch digitally on my iPad to make for an easier experimentation process, where I can work in separate layers and move around different elements to build the composition.” The figure—focused compositions that Perryn Ryan Ford creates serve as a mirror, reflecting into the world her personal, spiritual, and emotional growth.
Creating art has helped Perryn Ryan Ford to reconnect with herself, strengthening her intuitive, introspective, and empathetic gifts. As a result, she uses her art to visually communicate with her audience the importance of fostering greater connection and community within ourselves and with the world around us.
Inspired by analogous color stories often found in nature, Perryn Ryan Ford draws inspiration from her former career as a technical designer in the fashion industry. Constructing garments that accentuate the natural peaks and valleys of the female form, has informed the way she deconstructs and reassembles the female figures in her work – the shapes representing each part of a beautiful garment, and the lines are the threads that hold everything together. When discussing what inspires Perryn Ryan Ford she lists, “women, myself, the stories of others, nature, spirituality, poetry, food. Everything really. Women are everywhere and a part of everything, so I can find inspiration all around me.”
Pure Leaf Murals, New York, 2021-22
Originally from Washington D.C. and now based in Brooklyn, NY, Perryn studied art history at Philadelphia University where she earned her B.S. in Computer Information Systems. In addition, she has received formal art education at The Corcoran School of The Arts and Parsons The New School.
Perryn has developed an aesthetic and body of work that’s captured the attention of brands like Kate Spade, Erin Condren, Good Housekeeping, Urban Outfitters, and Pressed Juicery to create collaborative projects. Most recently, her work was featured in two New York City murals as part of Pure Leaf Tea’s 2021 No Is Beautiful campaign. Her preferred creative mediums are watercolor, acrylic, gouache, and digital.
