Ty Meier

Ty Meier is a working fine artist, a veteran, a super-experienced graphic designer and a proud father.

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 50 still trying to get love and attention from the adults around me”

Ty’s art is project 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 made a living of it for the two scintillating boom years after the pandemic, but then the brutal inflation + fifteen weekends of rain in a row forced him into a part-time job in a print shop.

Ty’s print shop job is a good job: It’s at Capitol Copy in Concord, NH. His art fills the lobby and he’s put “My name is Ty and I take care of the artists” on his business cards. He produces greeting cards, prints and posters for many local artists. It has this wonderful view of the New Hampshire capitol building from his work station:

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

These days Ty is focusing on three endeavors: 1) Getting more Music Festival gigs! 2) Finding consignments shops to sell his prints and 3) wholesale greeting cards.

Ty can be found every weekday morning at Capitol Copy, where he has plenty of art and greeting cards available, and at several upcoming events that you can see here