Leadville, Colorado-based artist Marley Seifert is happy to draw an original design or mountain-inspired artwork on your Flylow mitts.
Art comes in many different forms. It can be a painting on a wall. A ceramic bowl. A watercolor on a napkin. A drawing on a pair of leather gloves. Marley Seifert makes art in all of those mediums. “When I’m creating art, it feels like time is stopped. I am in this wonderland of my own world,” she says.
A few years ago, she started drawing mountain-inspired artwork on her friend’s ski gloves and it took off. “I’d draw on my friends’ gloves and then other people would see them and say, ‘Where did you get your mittens from?’” Seifert says. “The mountain community is small. But seeing the gloves out in the wild was such a cool feeling.”
Seifert, who’s 26, has been drawing and painting since she was a kid, and these days, she creates art from her home base in Leadville, Colorado. Her paintings, pottery, and prints are sold in galleries across Colorado. “I enjoy painting from my hikes and mountain biking and skiing,” she says. “Everything around me inspires me.”
She draws onto Flylow’s Oven Mitts, Rope Tow Mitts, and Wolverine Lobster Gloves using what’s called a pyrography pen, which burns the designs into the leather. From each glove she sells, $5 is donated to Protect Our Winters.
“Art on functional items makes life more fun and personal,” she says. “To pull out a journal, or your water bottle, or your gloves, and it’s covered in your favorite mountains created by an artist. That’s special.”
You can find Marley’s designs on Flylow mittens on her website or check out the local Colorado galleries that stock her artwork.
Oven Mitt
Rope Tow Mitt
Wolverine Lobster
