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Six Wings by Skrocki Design

Six Wings by Skrocki Design comprises two distinct artists, Amy and Tanner Skrocki,  who blend influences from fairy tales and mythology with their heritage, travels to historic sites, and the beauty of Canada, alongside contemporary influences. They hope their items inspire creativity in everyday life and hobbies. Their work is rooted in their own artistic identities and passions, including fashion, music, writing, drawing, photography, home decor, and cooking. They predominantly work with artisan leather, metal, paper, and gemstones.

Amy bases her drawings and watercolours and acrylics on the magical side of nature — small, tender moments that capture glimpses of nature's beauty caught in time. The metal and leather items created by Amy and Tanner are also inspired by folklore, fantasy, and history.

"Skrocki Design — a design house featuring wearable art inspired by artifacts, fantasy and passion… [gives] us a glimpse into the fine art of hard work and the hard work of fine art." — T8N Magazine

Six Wings by Skrocki Design has participated in hundreds of craft and art shows. It began with a simple origin: Amy creating items to help recover from a spinal injury, improve her dexterity, and manage crippling anxiety — while working toward making the pieces she had always imagined.

She also wanted to explore the stories she wrote as a child, shaped by her identity as the daughter of an Indigenous mother and a Polish father, as well as stories that grew from years of coping with significant chronic pain and the loss of an important part of her life after her accident.

With no prior knowledge of metalwork, leather, pattern making, or filmmaking, and only some experience in drawing, painting, and photography, Amy didn't know where to begin. She started by doing craft shows, hoping to earn enough to invest in tools and learning. Her first show was in 2008, and she continued doing shows as she built enough pieces to fill a booth. During this time she developed skills in glass casting, bead making, and wire wrapping, and experimented with a wide range of materials. As she is almost entirely self-taught, her learning process has spanned over a decade across many mediums. As she learned, she sold her work to fund new materials and bring her ideas to life.

It wasn't until 2012 that she began taking her work more seriously, teaching herself the techniques and processes that would eventually lead to where she and Tanner are today.

Up until 2014, Tanner was working full time while completing his bachelor's and master's degrees. In his spare time he worked tirelessly alongside Amy, learning her techniques, helping set up and run shows, and presenting her artwork in the most thoughtful way he could. They quickly recognized his strength in customer interaction and his natural ability to display her work with care and intention.

In 2014, after the birth of their daughter, Seraphim, Amy took a year-long break from larger shows to finally create the work she had always dreamed of making. During this time, Tanner began seriously developing his own skills, teaching himself metalwork entirely and honing several areas of leather craft, eventually becoming a master metal etcher and an expert in leather work.

By 2015, Amy's artistic style had become more defined. She began presenting her wearable art on models at events, continuing again in 2016 while also learning photography and developing the stories to accompany each piece. During this time, Tanner left his full-time job to focus on shows, sometimes attending up to three events per week at various markets and venues.

In 2016, Amy held her first solo gallery show at the Alberta Craft Council, titled Stories Brought to Life, featuring large-scale wearable art pieces and the stories behind each one.

From 2017 to 2019, Amy focused on refining her drawing and illustration skills, creating patterns, and pushing the limits of what she could make. She developed her photography and began exploring storytelling through video and film. This led to her first YouTube videos, with Tanner often hosting, focused on helping others start craft businesses and sharing tutorials, which have now reached nearly 800,000 views. During this time she also adapted one of her short stories into a film for a contest, which she won. The film was written, shot, and edited entirely by Amy, with Tanner acting and composing the music. Around this time her chronic pain began worsening, and she realized there was a deeper issue.

In 2020, at the start of the pandemic, Amy took a year-long break to focus on homeschooling Seraphim, writing, and exploring creative projects together.

In 2021, she applied to the TELUS STORYHIVE open call for beginner filmmakers. Her pitch was selected, and with Tanner's support, she wrote, directed, filmed, edited, and documented the creation of one of her wearable art pieces. This led to further funding from the Edmonton Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts to produce a dramatized short film based on another wearable art piece. After completing the first STORYHIVE project, she was selected again for STORYHIVE VOICES 1.0, where she created an episodic series focused on artists with invisible disabilities, exploring their stories and the need for accessibility in the arts.

During filming, Amy was diagnosed with a rare brainstem condition causing significant nerve pain and affecting her eyes, ears, and face. This led to Tanner taking on more of the physical production of the leather and metal work, while Amy focused on design, artwork, and storytelling.

In 2022, her first season, Crafting a Professional Career in the Arts: Against the Odds, was released on TELUS OPTIK TV on November 23. A second and third season followed, continuing to share the stories of artists navigating creative lives.

Amy's current body of work captures the quieter, magical side of nature, small, meaningful moments with animals and plants. These images are woven into their leather and metal pieces, as well as into journals and activity books for adults and children. Her work is held in private collections and has been collected by celebrities, politicians, MLAs, foreign dignitaries, and collectors around the world.

She continues to explore new ways of telling stories through art, writing, and film.

As of April 2018, Tanner and Amy added the ability to donate directly from their website, with a portion of each purchase going to causes close to their hearts, ones that have deeply affected their lives and were among the reasons Amy started the business in the first place. Over the years they supported Unite 2 Fight Paralysis and CARE, organizations that matter personally to them both.

As of 2024, they suspended online donations and returned to donating in person to local charities.