Meet Liv Peltier | Creative Director & Visual Artist

We had the good fortune of connecting with Liv Peltier and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Liv, what led you to pursuing a creative path professionally?
As a child, I had a very vivid imagination. I saw the world as my personal visual journey. So I created and wrote a lot of fictional stories/images that support my representation of my world. As I got older, when most adults lose theirs, my imagination never died. It was my junior year of highschool that I realized our imagination as a society has been lost. So I wanted to pursue my creative career as a Creative Director/Visual Artist to help bring back imagination, the feeling of unrealistic, impracticality into our society. So many adults gain their imagination again!

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
I see my art work as small cinematic pieces. Even though they’re not motion pictures they tell a story through imagery. The saying art is subjective may go for many artists but for my art, I like the concept of truly understanding how a piece is interpreted and what makes it influential. What sets my pieces apart from others is that I dive into the inner child of my target audience, who were they? I truly believe many of us adults lose our inner child do to complications and hardships adulting sprung upon us. Therefore by bringing out the inner child through my works brings us a step closer to solving society’s lack of imagination!

My path as a creative at first started out easy, only because I thought I took the easy route. I decided to go to art school after high school, once accepted to the Art Institute of Atlanta I moved here in this beautiful city of Atlanta, Georgia. Due to the institute not having dorms, I had to get an apartment in the city which forced me into adulthood at the age of 18. I got myself a job in the restaurant industry and balanced work life with school life. I did that for 2 years straight which became my biggest challenge because I felt myself losing who my core self was, a creative. Although I was in art school, I wasn’t creating art for the love anymore but just to pass my classes. So i began to lose my passion. In September of 2023, the Art Institute of Atlanta permanently closed leaving me without an education outlet for my creative career. It was at that moment I realized, what I truly wanted to be a creative director/visual artists. I want to create works for people who lose themselves in this tough society, so when they see my art it makes their inner child smile. Once I made that decision, I quit my restaurant job and focused on my art work. I started up an instagram page and a YouTube channel, from there I create visuals for graphic arts, social media marketing, merchandising brands, fashion shows, etc.

My story taught me the biggest lesson in life, Get up and Do what makes you happy! I realized that we all are just doing what we think makes us happy because of what society believes is success. Once I learned that success is making others smile, success is being able to wake up everyday and create what I want to create, success is freedom! So with that being said my major takeaway I want the world to get from my path, is success is freedom, so do what makes you feel the most free! And for me it’s creating amazing visuals that help others inner child smile.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
Atlanta, so many things come to mind when anyone says this city’s name. The historic value, artistic value, fashion value, music value, etc. the list can go on and on. For me a week in Atl is all you need to maximize your ATLien experience. Starting with food since I am a literal foodie, I would always head over to college park or the Westend. The best soul food I’ve had in Atl has came out of those areas. Now you cannot come to Atlanta and not be a brunch person because we’re literally the city of brunch. Midtown and Buckhead, especially North Buckhead. Great brunch spots are there, my favorite is Toast at Lenox! But enough on food, I also enjoy adventurous events, so I’ll definitely take my friends to midtown there’s so much artistic fun things to do there, such as Atlantic Station. I would also take them a little out of the city to the Battery, so many cool and fun places there as well. If your more on the nature adventure side we have so many good hikes and falls near the city that literally is perfect for meditating and a great workout! Lastly, nightlife, Atlanta is more of a club scene, so the nightlife may get a bit repetitive if you’re not the clubbing type of person! But overall it is okay!

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I want to give the School of the Arts, based in the island of St. John, U.S.V.I. As a child growing up in the Caribbean, there weren’t many creative outlets for kids and the school of the arts was my main outlet. I was enrolled there for after school programs at around the age of 4 until I left the Virgin Islands at 14. So for roughly 10 years, I participated in many programs including theatre, dance, music, and art classes. I really do want to give them a huge shoutout for capturing and cultivating my creativity which helped me be the person I am today!

Instagram: Stylez.byliv_e

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/liv-peltier-5a0827220

Twitter: Theeoffolivia_

Youtube: https://youtube.com/@Theeofficialolivia?si=c1iD3O9Lb6YnnQPQ

Image Credits
Image of Flowers circling client: Credits for photographer Deon Webster at T.A.B.S. Image of dancer: Credits for cinematographer Millz Davis Cover image in black and white: Credits for photographer Ra