We started Art Eater to solve a problem that we share with almost every parent in Australia.
Like all children, our kids use painting, colouring and drawing to express what is happening in their lives long before they can write or speak fluently about it. Like all parents, we're amazed at what our children are able to produce. And we knew right away that our kids' artwork was going to be a fantastic visual record of their early lives and their view of the world as they were growing up.
But we have three kids, who are now aged 8, 6 and 3. We quickly found that our house was full of more children's artwork than we could handle - from home, playgroup, art class, kindergarten and school. Very soon we caught ourselves just stuffing this fabulous work into boxes in the garage, under the bed, in the cupboard - in the end, anywhere there was a space.
So we started looking for a better way - a way not only to preserve this valuable artwork, but also to showcase it and celebrate it. We found nothing in Australia that came close to what we were after. So we decided to create it ourselves.
A year of hard work later, and Art Eater is the result.
Art Eater's aim is the effortless preservation of the creativity of children. Busy parents designed it to work for busy parents - to make it affordable, easy and fun. Our intention is to help you create something you and your children will appreciate again and again. And not just a year or two from now, but twenty or thirty years from now.
We can't wait to see what your kids have created!
Sara and Nathan Hodges