Nicole Teng draws much of her creative inspiration from the Art Brut movement. She loves the organic rawness and simple purity in arts and crafts. Her hand-made works of clay, old furniture, or traditional indigo colored fabric carefully and affectionately transform raw materials into small useful objects, each of them unique. Customers easily connect with the stick figures or faces on a vase, a cup, or a chair that create a piece of useful art with personality and heart.