about the artist
Abigail Swint is an Illustrator residing in Columbus, Ohio. She is currently earning her BFA as a junior at Columbus College of Art & Design with a major in illustration and a graduation date of May 2025. As an incoming freshman, she was awarded the CCAD Goodale Park Scholarship in 2021. Abigail aims to immerse her audience in a story with every piece. With an interest in the esoteric and mystical, and a love of history and folklore, she intertwines her pieces with fantastical themes filled with symbolic imagery and intricate designs. Abigail enjoys a variety of mediums, both digitally and traditionally, and often uses both in her artistic process. To see more of her creations, Abigail’s work can be found under her username @oodleloodle on Instagram.
artist statement
Nature has always been my muse as an artist. I often like to bring nature's miraculous and strange environments and creatures into my work. I feel there’s so many beautiful creations that are often overlooked or unexplored by the populus, so I strive to include many of nature’s quirks into my body of work. This influence, combined with my love of the unexplored, the mystical, and the esoteric has led me to creating a body of work surrounding myths, fantastical creatures and characters, and otherworldly environments. In addition, my work is threaded with motifs through symbolic imagery, color palettes, and design traits. All of this is intentional so that my work tells a story with every piece. Every hue, pattern, and line is to guide the viewer through a journey, and to immerse them into the same fantastical places I myself have been.
While I am often drawn to digital art’s wide variety of tools and colors, I try to maintain a healthy balance of both traditional and digital work. In particular, traditional ink work and painting have always been a therapeutic process for me. I love to see a piece unfold and develop in new and unexpected ways, and with traditional mediums, that journey is more permanent. However, digital art allows me to be more experimental and careless, since I’m not restricted by materials or my wallet. Regardless of mediums however, the best part of any piece for me is the process. For me, creating artwork is like solving a puzzle. I’m constantly looking at what fits, and what needs work; and eventually, the final piece will click.