Watercolor illustration of a girl with a Lily flower hat and dress, standing near a strawberry plant with ripe strawberries

Strawberry Snail Illustrations

If you’re looking for snail-paced, soul filled art, you’re in the right place. Whether you need that special art piece that speaks to who you are, or you’re an art director or agency—you’re looking for art with heart. And a touch of magic. Welcome.

New Limited Petal Pouch Collection.

Golden Hour Handmade Petal Pouch Golden Hour Handmade Petal Pouch
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Golden Hour Handmade Petal Pouch
$33.00 $44.00

Golden Hour Petal Pouch

hand-sewn with fabric design from my hand-painted Nostalgia Collection © Strawberry Snail Illustrations

exterior fabric: combed cotton and linen with Golden Hour pattern design. Quilted with 100% cotton for extra structure.

interior lining cream, 100% cotton muslin

Approximately 9.5 × 5.5 inches

Gold metal zipper

Gold metal d-ring

Hand-painted tag with materials and care instructions

Hand-painted gift box

Shipping to the USA not available due to tariffs. I’m sorry!

Cordelia Hand-sewn Petal Pouch Cordelia Hand-sewn Petal Pouch
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Cordelia Hand-sewn Petal Pouch
$44.00

Cordelia Petal Pouch

hand-sewn with fabric design from my hand-painted Nostalgia Collection © Strawberry Snail Illustrations

exterior fabric: combed cotton and linen with my Cordelia pattern design. Quilted with 100% cotton canvas for extra structure.

Approximately 9.5 × 5.5 inches

Gold metal zipper

Gold metal d-ring

Hand-painted tag with materials and care instructions

Hand-painted gift box

Shipping to the USA not available due to tariffs. I’m sorry!

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Sentimental Sunday Hand-sewn Petal Pouch Sentimental Sunday Hand-sewn Petal Pouch
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Sentimental Sunday Hand-sewn Petal Pouch
$44.00

Sentimental Sunday Petal Pouch

hand-sewn with fabric design from my hand-painted Nostalgia Collection © Strawberry Snail Illustrations

exterior fabric: combed cotton and linen with my Sentimental Sunday pattern design. Quilted with 100% cotton canvas for extra structure.

Approximately 9.5 × 5.5 inches

Gold metal zipper

Gold metal d-ring

Hand-painted tag with materials and care instructions

Hand-painted gift box

Shipping to the USA not available due to tariffs. I’m sorry!

It all started with the Nostalgia fabric collection—hand-painted patterns by Strawberry Snail, printed on to fabric and hand-sewn into tea towels. Enter the Petal Pouch—handmade entirely from scraps of those tea towels and sewn in the studio with love.

Pause. Look. Wonder.

Shop the Backyard Prints

A poster featuring illustrations of various backyard birds with their names, including mourning dove, blue jay, northern flicker, house sparrow, black-capped chickadee, American robin, cardinal, ruby-throated hummingbird, red-winged blackbird, and hairy woodpecker.
Framed repeat pattern with colorful illustrations of various insects including ladybugs, butterflies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, and moths on a pink background with polka dots and stripes.
Illustration of various backyard botanical plants, including wild strawberry, queen anne's lace, dandelion, bladder campion, daisy, chamomile, clover, buttercup, aster, and others, with labeled names.
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Dive into Strawberry Snail’s Portfolio

Find whimsical illustrations for surface pattern design, wall art, children’s books & publications.

Meet Thérèse

Thérèse is a painter and illustrator based in Long Sault, Ontario. After finishing her art degree in drawing and painting, she began her watercolour journey in children’s illustration—building a portfolio and eventually illustrating three children’s books. A life-long obsession with the intricacies found in the natural world led her to her current work of detailed paintings and pattern design inspired by vintage botanical and scientific prints.

A woman with brown hair and freckles sitting on a wooden garden chair outdoors, wearing a green shirt and a floral scarf, with green grass and blurred trees in the background.
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Getting into it. . . Vintage style illustration | Picture books | Strawberry Snail Illustrations
Did you know? The Nova Scotian govt pulled 100% of its funding to publishers in the province. The Canada logo will be removed from the acknowledgements page. All this with very little warning. That the government does not support its own arts and cul
2nd tea dyeing go is a charm. I removed the airmail blue and red stripes (see last post) because a) airmail stripes on a postcard doesn’t exist and b) airmail wasn’t invented until 1903 which is two years after the time period I’m i
I brought out the black tea for this one but was too excited to let it steep enough 😬 Making of “Wireless”, coming out in the future by @nimbuspub . Vintage Inspired | Children’s Illustration | Strawberry Snail Illustrations | Nim
Mud dauber and ruby throated. . Watercolour and gouache Magazine Illustration | Pollinators | Hand-painted | Strawberry Snail Illustrations
Insects are those things where you can macro/micro observe. It’s wild. I don’t need to do this much detail, in fact, I probably shouldn’t. But here I am. It’s a trip. . Editorial Illustration | Pollinators | Strawberry Snail
Eastern Giant Swallowtail Watercolour, ink, gouache Editorial Illustration | Nature Illustration | Strawberry Snail Illustration
Just over here torturing myself with this giant swallowtail. 🫶 . . Editorial Illustration | Pollinators | Strawberry Snail Illustrations
I’m feeling SO GRATEFUL for all the work. Grateful that despite the unpredictability of life right now, Spring is in the air on schedule. Grateful for my massage therapist and her expertise in Fascial Stretch Therapy (look that up), grateful fo
Coming this Fall! Here’s a snippet of the picture book I’m working on called Wireless, written by @laura.alary and published with @nimbuspub . It’s 1901 in St. John’s, Newfoundland and a couple of really clever kids meet Gugl
PROCESS | How I get rid of the dreaded “final” stage in picture book making. I’ve always struggled with making the final painting as loose and sketchy and immediate as my sketch. It’s a mind game where you have to trick yourse
Annual Valentine’s cake with raspberry cream and dark chocolate ganache. If the kids actually like it, I’ll call it a win. . Happy L.O.V.E. day tomorrow, friends.

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