ARTIST JOURNAL | Notes from the studio
Inspiration, new work, and stories about life and travel.
Inspired by Travel: Maui, Hawaii
Getting a glimpse at what goes on outside of the studio is often more revealing than what you see when an artist stands in front of the canvas. Inspiration collected in the forms of experiences, emotions, color palettes, landscapes, patterns, and...
Art Exhibition: Art Spirit Gallery in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
At the end of 2021, I received an invitation from a curator at The Art Spirit Gallery in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. She was planning a regional group art exhibition inspired by the book Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel. I love the book and am greatly...
New Art: Exuberance
Exuberance isn’t exactly “new art” anymore. I started this painting in October 2022 and finished it at the end of November, but I haven't been as great at sharing my work here as I have on Instagram and I'm working on that habit. If you'd like to...
Inspired by Travel: Berlin, Germany
I genuinely want to use this space to document inspiration for my art and parts of my life that have been especially interesting or meaningful, but I took this trip to Berlin in 2015 and it’s 2023 now. The tiny boy walking toward the Berlin Wall is...
Creative Process: How I See | Curve
One of the things that I want to do a better job of is giving you a bit of a bigger picture when I share my art with you. For instance, photography is a huge part of my creative process. It’s how I see and discover details. I actually used to work...
Pantone Color of the Year 2023: Viva Magenta
The Pantone Color of the Year for 2023 is Viva Magenta. Now, I'm not one to create to trends -- not since I stopped designing prints for the fashion industry, but I can usually find something that addresses them in my archive! If you enjoy playing...
How Categorizing My Art Held Me Back
Beautiful Paia in Maui. Photograph by Melanie Biehle, November 2022Sometimes the message is subtle. In other times, our intuition knocks us down with knowledge like a rogue wave. My epiphany was closer to the latter. If you’ve looked around...
Behind the Scenes: Daily Journaling
I honestly don’t know why it feels so hard to just “show up”. Maybe my brain is winning this round. You know how your brain can sometimes “reason” its way around everything until there’s nothing left? Or, more likely in my case, it makes the thing...
New Art: Invitation
I’m not sure when I realized that art is like a portal to a place inside yourself. If you’ve visited my home page lately, I try to describe this feeling. What it means to me. How I hope you feel when you "step inside" and live with one of my works...