Hanukkah Collage
As the Jewish New Year approaches, I wanted to share my Hanukkah collection, perfect for wall art, cards, gift wrap, and more! Shanah tovah to anyone celebrating!
Celebration Mosaic
Want to celebrate a special someone in your life? Or give yourself a bit of encouragement throughout the day? Enter my Celebration Mosaic collection—cheery florals, cheering sayings! It’s perfect for gifting or stationery.
Frog Prince
Perfect for anniversaries, special occasions, and Valentine’s Day, this Frog Prince collection adds a touch of fairytale magic to your declarations of love!
Folk Harvest
The perfect fall complement to my Summer Fruit Salad collection, Folk Harvest leans hard into gorgeous autumnal hues for root vegetables and flowers alike. Its vintage retro art 1970s vibes are perfect for home decor trends in 2026.
Summer Fruit
Right around the 4th of July here in the States, I remembered my family’s childhood tradition of getting a ton of fresh fruit and vegetables at food stands for a feast before fireworks. This turned into an explosion of food stands, sundae stands, fair contests, and cookouts, along with all the fruits you might want for those occasions. This would be a perfect collection to adapt for summer tableware, kitchen decor, or even tote bags!
(Unfortunately this was later overshadowed by food safety considerations, but I’m glad I got to indulge in all the fruits in art form still, even as I boil my peaches. But they can never take my corn on the cob away! :) )
Pink peacocks
Another challenge-inspired collection: Cat Coquillete’s Mini Collection challenge! I wanted to work in this years’ feather trend, so peacocks seemed perfect. I wasn’t vibing with the usual palette of blues and greens, so I went bold with pink, and then even bolder into a completely monochromatic pink collection. Only afterwards did I discover that pink peacocks exist in real life!
So many applications of this collection on products, from paper to fabric to journals to wallpaper. Contact me to license this fun trendy collection!
Vintage Christmas in July!
This vintage retro art collection, Vintage Christmas Cheer, is an awesome way to dream yourself into a crisp snowy day in the middle of this summer heat. I imagine Christmas cards, wrapping paper, gift bags, and even wall art.
Roaring 20s Catio
This quirky collection came out of an Instagram challenge #JuneInBloom2026, which had prompts to mix flowers with objects, with food, with clothes, and with animals. It started with the gramophone, but then all I wanted to draw was a brood of white cats in a catio filled with plants. From there the collection became a mix of 1920s aesthetics and cats going wild. So much fun—it would be fantastic on stationery and home decor alike. (My ideal childhood bathroom wallpaper would’ve been that striped cat surface pattern!)
Fish, Fruits, and Flowers
This Mediterranean collection has it all—intense, bold floral surface pattern designs ideal for fabric or stationery, quirky motifs in the fish and drinks, and punchy wall art. Contact me about licensing these designs!
Birthday Lucky Charm
According to my teacher Cat Coquillette’s 2026 trend report, charms are a big trend. In this collection, Birthday Lucky Charm, I combine lucky charm symbols with birthday wishes. It’s still a thrill when I get cards in the mail—I bet someone in your life feels the same!
Hens in the Violets—a new fabric collection!
I was walking outside in early April, and there was an explosion of violets…and the rest is surface pattern history! This collection would be great for fabric collections, but could also be adapted to stationery and home goods. These chickens have been a huge hit.
Wildflower Hour: my first collection designed for fabric
The collection portfolio page, featuring a rainbow of 24 surface patterns.
As an East Coast transplant to the great state of Texas (said unironically), I had no idea what to expect from a year’s weather. I had visited UT Austin in late March of 2006 from my language program in Paris, and the contrast was severe—Paris was still winter, cool and barren; Austin was an explosion of color. But when all of this would happen wasn’t clear to me when I started my graduate program in the fall of 2006.
The weather was great once the summer heat calmed down, but I don’t think I could’ve imagined the earth erupting in so much color so early until February of 2007. What’s more, it wasn’t confined to parks and gardens—there were wildflowers on even the shlubbiest median strips!
This beauty was by design. In the 1960s, first lady Lady Bird Johnson spearheaded the Highway Beautification Act, which filled highway median strips and roadsides with oceans of wildflowers. If you’re ever in Austin, you absolutely must visit the Wildflower Center, named in her honor, in South Austin. It’s amazing year-round!
When this collection began to take shape, it was clear that my inspiration was the explosive energy of a Texas spring. This collection's folk-art inspired flowers bring the energy of nature emerging from every nook and cranny, in the middle of highways and businesses and otherwise drab places. I don’t know about you, but I’d love to sew with it!
My self-portrait featured in Uppercase Magazine
A long-time dream of mine finally fulfilled: my illustrated self-portrait was published in the winter issue of Uppercase (#68). You can see the rest of the issue (or order one for yourself!) here. Working to creative briefs is challenging, but so much fun. I think that leaps off the page in my self-portrait, no?
Picture of Lena Hunsicker pointing to her self-portrait (figure in blue) in Uppercase Magazine #68
This issue asked how we artists are inspired by the elements—I chose air! The editor, Janine Vangool, describes the magic of art inspired by air:
AIR
We share our ideas through words and images. Like air, art is universal, all-encompassing and necessary for life.
This issue is especially close to my heart because it takes a strong stance FOR human art (and against soulless AI art).
Art's purpose is to help us make sense of the world, express our feelings about our lives and make our lives more interesting or beautiful or challenging. Artists bring their whole unique selves to the page-meaning, if 50 artists made a piece on the same subject or brief, the pieces, as this issue shows, will vary wildly. Only people can do that. These days, society tells people to outsource their artistic longings for meaning to AI, but Al can only produce uninspired, meaningless mashups of art that already exists. Those mashups may answer a prompt, but they can't really say anything—they lack context. All art is a response, and you need a point of view, reasoning and judgment to make that magic happen!
Lena Hunsicker with issue 68 of Uppercase Magazine
Happy New Year!: Réve & Bloom featured in CatCoq’s 2026 Trend Report
A page from CatCoq’s 2026 Trend Report, showing the Blurred Watercolor Trend with my art second from bottom left (Abstract Spring journal)
So excited to finally get to reveal this: One of my very cool teachers and sources of inspiration, Cat Coquillete, has included a piece of mine in her 2026 Trend Report. The 2026 Trend Report is packed with interesting evolutions of 2025 trends and brand new 2026 trends, from horses and feathers to snails and maximalist florals—click here to check it out!
I made this piece as part of a collection I call “Abstract Spring” last April, after doing a lot of driving to and from car dealerships. Amazing how even the most annoying errand can create pretty amazing things, if you keep your eyes open for the trees and flowers and butterflies while you’re trudging down the highway over and over!