Ty Meier

Ty Meier is a working fine artist, a veteran, a super-experienced graphic designer and a proud father. He sets up his art booth at art markets, music festivals or street fairs almost every weekend that weather allows, and regularly has two or three shows in venues around New Hampshire and Northern California.

Ty’s artist statement:

"Refocus on the much larger themes of life:
The improbable phenomenon of our existence and
the epiphanies of experience. We are beautiful
creatures surrounded by darkness.
Practice awe. Never stagnate.
Peace ∙ prosperity ∙ happiness."

Ty sets up at a art market, music festival or street fair every weekend that weather allows… and some that it doesn’t.

Great Blue Heron Music festival in upstate New York

Ty has an obsession with drawing and creating art- literally can’t go a few minutes without thinking about it- and daily practice has made him fast and efficient. He says: “In the 3rd grade I won a big art contest and got love and attention from the adults around me, and now I’m in my fifties and still trying to get love and attention from the adults around me”

Ty’s art projects a positive philosophy offset by darkness. It’s about finding beauty in the world despite the very difficult times we have to go through. It’s uplifting and dark, expressing love and struggle via humble critters and a lot of scrollwork.

Ty grew up in Willits, CA, a tiny town in the redwoods, spent a tour in the US Army in Germany driving tanks and then mostly spent the next 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was lucky enough to have semesters abroad in Florence, Italy and Paris, France. Interestingly he spend two years in Russia in St. Petersburg (a story for a different time) but eventually landed in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, to raise his daughter who has turned out great. He now lives and works in Concord, NH.

Ty spend two decades in the t-shirt screenprinting industry, which explains the vector/spot color nature of his artwork: he thinks in screenprinting. He had a screenprinting shop for four years but the decline of the the industry and the not-terribly-artsy nature of the work (and the pandemic) ended it; He started selling his fine art at outdoor markets and did better then he ever did selling t-shirts.

Ty’ has a part-time at Capitol Copy in Concord, NH. His art fills the lobby and his business card reads “My name is Ty and I take care of the artists”, and he enjoys producing greeting cards, prints and posters for many local artists. Here’s his winter view of the NH State capitol from his workstation: