The Women Behind Bookshelf Anatomy
Bookshelf Anatomy is a small, women-owned creative business built by a mother-daughter duo who have always believed that the things we make, collect, read, stitch, paint, and save tell a story about who we are.
We are Claudia E. Heyer and Hetty Jarvis:
two artists with different creative backgrounds and one very shared tendency of collecting hobbies.
Meet Claudia
Claudia is the paper, paint, botanical, and mixed-media side of BSA.
Her work combines painting, collage, fiber, botanicals, paper, and found inspiration into colorful mixed-media pieces. Original artwork often begins on a wood panel, inside an art journal, out in the garden, or at the studio table before finding its way into stationery, cards, stickers, bookmarks, miniature books, paper goods, and other little pieces meant to be used and treasured.
Her work celebrates the beauty of making something simply because you felt inspired to make it.
Meet Hetty
Hetty is the fiber-arts and administative side of BSA.
A lifelong creative and collector at heart, Hetty brings a fresh perspective to a traditional craft through original needlepoint designs, thoughtfully selected canvases, accessories, project ideas, and finishing.
There is something special about taking a painted canvas, choosing the threads, watching it slowly come alive stitch by stitch, and eventually turning it into something you can keep for years.
That process is what we mean when we say Needlepoint Reimagined.
Blending Artforms
One of us might be surrounded by paper scraps, paint, flowers, and an art journal while the other has three needlepoint projects going at the same time with a a pile of thread nearby and another canvas already picked out.
Bookshelf Anatomy (BSA) is where those worlds meet.
Our shop brings together needlepoint, paper art, stationery, mixed media, fiber arts, original artwork, and creative goods for people who, like us, don't believe they have to choose just one creative hobby.
We create some pieces ourselves, collaborate with other artists and makers, and curate things we genuinely love.
Handmade Things Carry Memories
A needlepoint ornament can remind you of the year you stitched it. A card can become something someone keeps tucked inside a drawer. A piece of artwork can follow you from home to home. A project can remind you of the person you sat beside while you worked on it.
Those are the things we want BSA to be filled with.
Not just products, but pieces with a story behind them‚and hopefully a story ahead of them, too.
What's On Your Bookshelf?
Preserving stories through stitch, paper, paint & creativity.
Claudia & Hetty
Co-Founders of Bookshelf Anatomy