Sandy Lynam Clough creates beautifully realistic paintings and designs that can only be described as “Fresh-ditional”! They are both fresh and contemporary, yet her painting is fine art. This combination of fresh and traditional is uniquely Sandy Clough and appears on many licensed products, in gift books she has written and illustrated, and now in fabric collections.

A fourth generation artist, Sandy got her earliest art training and encouragement in a home where things were made and created – not just bought. Her talent and her creativity were developed by her father, who was a sign painter and an artist, and her mother, who was an excellent seamstress. She painted her first oil painting in the second grade. Her first grade teacher caught her making doll clothes in the classroom, and by the eighth grade, Sandy was starting to make her own clothes. The love of sewing was passed to her from her mother who learned it from her own mother. One of Sandy’s treasures is the treadle sewing machine that her grandmother paid for with eggs from her chickens. The first book Sandy authored and illustrated was, “Heirlooms from Loving Hands”, celebrating the joy of handmade keepsakes.