Annamarie H. Guest is an Artist and Visual Designer based in Greenville, SC.
She began her studies of Art and English at Furman University, a private liberal arts college where she earned its renowned Pipkin Award, one of the university’s most prestigious awards for academic excellence. She subsequently attended graduate school at the University of South Carolina.
Her artistic skills brought her to a full-time job as the Display Coordinator at Anthropologie, where she spent over three years designing, building, and installing all of the in-store displays for the brand.
During her time outside of work, she still designs, creates, and brings her own ideas to life.
There is no artistic medium that Annamarie will not tackle. From embroidery to sketching, from sculpture to digital rendering, from woodworking to photography, Annamarie works in all mediums and often likes to combine them in a way she says “carries an uncommon potential for unexamined, raw techniques.” In April of 2017, the Waccamaw Journal published her woodcut print “Play with Fire,” which juxtaposes the many societal expectations of women. Annamarie’s personal work weaves postmodernist themes with classic western ideals, bringing an alluring anger to the feminine perspective. Her own brand of fine art seeks to investigate gender roles and the concept of femininity.
Before her focus on writing and visual design, Annamarie was once a fashion model, a ballet instructor, an English tutor, and a fashion retail manager.
Today, Annamarie’s latest personal projects include writing and illustrating a children’s artbook based on animal zoology and developing a screenplay for a limited series based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Mars” trilogy.
She currently lives with her husband Justin and their two dogs, Zack and Jenny.
“Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.”
― Dorothy Parker