Mt Baldy Installation. Photograph
© Darwin Nordin and Rebecca Watson

Sempervivus Art and Design

Sempervivus Art and Design was founded sixteen years ago by artists Darwin Nordin and Rebecca Watson. Initially Sempervivus started as a garden design business. Darwin and Rebecca both have an art background and experience in the garden; Darwin worked at Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens while completing graduate school and after graduation took a job at a local nursery; Rebecca had experience working in a nursery and a love for growing things. Starting the garden design business seemed like a natural way to channel creative energies and concern for the environment, while still maintaining a flexible enough schedule to engage in other artistic endeavors. Like a work in progress, Sempervivus has evolved over the years into areas of teaching, exhibit, event, graphic/web and instructional design. The creative process is hard to compartmentalize, and we both have found exploring different mediums to be a rich and rewarding experience.

Education has always been an essential part of our philosophy. Finding ways to bring: a client, a teacher, a child - closer to understanding a concept or idea is how we ultimately hope to impact the people we work with. Darwin, who has over fifteen years experience as a teaching artist, has been working primarily as an artist-in-residence for the past five years. Rebecca is currently working as an Graphic/Web Designer for the Instructional Design Center at Seattle University. We continue to consult and do design work on a project by project basis. If you are interested in talking to us about a project please email us.

'Art Revealed' at the Lynnwood Convention Center (Darwin and other artists work held over until October 2006)

Elmgrove Productions latest CD: "The Shining Place" - Janeanne Houston, Soprano and Robert Jorgensen, Piano. Darwin and Rebecca designed the CD liner. Darwin's art 'Curled Worlds' is featured on the cover.

Darwin is working with ArtsCorps, Powerful Schools, The GAGE Academy of Art and Lesley University's Creative Arts & Learning program

Rebecca completed new Website for LA CAB, LLC