About Me

Name: Charmian M. Toh

This site is my personal portfolio website. I created ArtEnchanted Studios as a small company with very high hopes and expectations that it will provide design services and market it's very own line for ceramics and jewelry.

Some Random Facts

I'm a "mud baby" - i.e. my mom's a ceramic artist and I grew up elbow deep in clay and mud. My first love is clay and I studied ceramics at Parson's School of Design but got my Bachelor's at Eugene Lang College (part of The New School).

I love product design, mainly designing dinnerware and tiles. I got into designing jewelry as part of my "sanity check" while recovering from viral pneumonia. Not much you can do while recovering so I picked up beading and making jewelry. It grew to people loving it and even buying it! So hey, you gotta love a good thing!

I draw and paint in my spare time. My main medium is oil pastels - I love the feel, and the texture and the look it gives. I don't use paint brushes when I paint with oil sticks or oil pastels. I use my fingers - it gives a more tactile look the the overall finish. I will paint on commission but more likely I tend to either sell my paintings or give them away.

My interest in graphic design started when I was looking into marketing my ceramic wares and jewelry. In order to articulate what I wanted, I needed to understand the process of getting it done. So I went to Session's to get my certificate in Graphic Design. Woo Hoo! Definitely an interesting course and well worth all the time and effort!

The"M" in my name stands for Mei Ching and it means "beautiful" and "pure" in mandarin. My grandmother gave me that name. I'm pretty sure my mother would have more than a thing or two to say about the meaning and how I *really* was growing up!

I was a business analyst in the IT industry for 10years while earning my living to pay for my artistic creations. I still do some business analyst work but one hopes it's a passing thing!