Erica Martyn

Since a young child I have always been creative with a passion for drawing and making things! After studying art & design and theatre studies at college in Hampshire, I then furthered my education by moving to Liverpool to study theatrical costume interpretation alongside attending a professional dance school.

This was 14 years ago now and over this time I have been very lucky to have explored many different creative roles, including being a theatrical costume interpreter for theatre and television, dance teacher and personal trainer for a variety of leading UK health clubs alongside being a graphic designer for a UK property developer! In 2007 I joined the design team for a Dorset art & crafts distributor and worked as a graphics designer, illustrator & creative designer on a number of leading crafting brands.

Since having my son back in February 2010 I began to work on developing my own design studios so that I could combine being a full time mum with my passion for art, design & illustration. ‘Odds & Soxlets’ was founded in May 2011 with my sock creations and illustrations and has now developed into my creative design house for all my character creations and illustrated works of art!

‘Odds & Soxlets’ is a small business based in the town of Verwood in Dorset run solely by myself in my spare time around caring for my young son (1.2.2010). The future looks bright for ‘Odds & Soxlets’ and I have many plans to develop the business over the forthcoming years.

As I have had such a varied artistic past please take a look through my portfolio by clicking on the banner below to see a snippet of my work over the last 14 years…

Handmade in UK
Erica Martyn
Odds & Soxlets
51 Belmont Close
Verwood
Dorset
BH31 6JR