About the Artist
Ashleymarie Sey Lively is a full-time artist and the happy vibes expert behind Sey Studios!
Sey is known for her lively & whimsical characters and her positive perspectives. She shares her passion for creativity by teaching art to students of all ages. In addition to her classes, she runs a product-based business, offering a range of delightful items, including prints, stationary, stickers, and her popular wearable art brooches that turn her playful characters into one-of-a-kind accessories designed to make people smile.
As little girl, Sey would stare at the art from the children's books in her grandmother's library, inspired by the characters, colors, and textures on the pages. She was in love with coloring and drawing and daydreamed to one be an artist for those books. As she grew up, she saw how each of her family members were their own entrepreneurs, finding needs in the community and filling them, and still making time for family. She also saw a need for things that made people smile. As she grew, she made art for family, friends, and even art shows, and found her creations brought smiles to everyone's faces.
Sey's other accomplishments include owning and running The Bubble Pop Gallery which she started in 2017 to the present, shortly curated and ran social media for Top Hat Art Collective Gallery, personally has exhibited in over 150 art shows all over the nation, illustrating and self publishing two children's books, three coloring books, and educating artists of all ages.
She continues to make lively art from her home studio based in Bakersfield, CA where she lives with her husband, two girls, and their dogs Luna Belle and Skipper Gizmo.
Her art generates a vibration of life, an extension of the self and spirit, with playful optimism. She has been featured in galleries, blogs, podcasts, books, magazines, tv, and countless private collections. Sey creates art with a rippling effect of happiness.
