About Collaborative Art Shop

Andrea Poliquin Wotkyns started a creative journey at 16 with the inspiration from her mother, who was a weaver and silk screen printer. As layout editor position for the school yearbook for 2 years with occasional hand sketched ad mock ups for local businesses, the path was clear that Andrea would be in visual arts. With juried metal work, hand decorated leather jewelry, stained glass, folk art and then emerging into graphic arts it completed the knowledge to market a creative business. After a corporate job of 20 years attended The University of New Hampshire and started the graphics business that lasted 20 years excelling at converting ideas to brands and documents to help new businesses or established corporations-receiving awards in print and web design along the way.

Having a background in print design, illustration, large format, printing, package design, real estate photography, product photography and web design offered a well rounded partner to work with hospitals, banks, fitness centers, food artisans, e-commerce and more. Specializing in Photoshop composite work for packaging, bill boards, vehicles, and surface design also influenced the collections to offer in the on-demand printing industry.

Knowing both retail and wholesale after owning a boutique collaborative shop before retirement, now buyers are helped with the difficult balance of inventory needs and found that the on-demand technology have had good results and the reward to be inspired by artists work eRead their story