Hearth and Blooms

About Patti Smith and Hearth and Blooms

I am an artist and wood crafter; an Iowa native living on a beautiful farm near Preston with my husband and our two pups. I’m blessed to be a mom and grandma to wonderful and beautiful children.

Hearth and Blooms’ studio is in my country home, overlooking the rolling hills of the Maquoketa Valley. It is from here that I get my inspiration and how I came up with the name for my business. Native prairies, the woodlands, bluffs, and ponds are the main influences for my work.

Illustrating, painting and wood crafting all bring peace and a sense of well-being to my soul; and seeing all the beauty that surrounds me grants the feeling of belonging and the gift of grace I have been given.

My mission with Hearth and Blooms is to convey that same peace, sense of well-being and feeling of belonging to my customers through my art. One thing that may set me apart from other artists is the fact that I’m a bit of a science nerd and make most of my own paints from prairie flowers and other plants! Each piece of artwork has a little bit of Iowa native prairie in it.