UPDATE: ART IS NOW AVAILABLE IN MY ONLINE GALLERY! My Summer 2024 abstract art collection is on view at Capers in West Seattle through Monday September 30th. I’ll be there for the West Seattle Art Walk next Thursday, September 12th from 5-8(ish) PM. This series...
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Collaborations stretch my creativity in such great, unexpected ways. When Cassandra and I first discussed the 2024 Monochromatic Collection for Casa di LaValle I was a bit apprehensive. While the style referenced some of my earlier geometric abstract cityscape work, I...
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I’m excited to share my latest interior design collaboration — wall coverings to the trade with Dallas, Texas based LOOK Walls & Interiors. I was introduced to owner Lindsay White through one of my art collectors who happens to be a sales representative for LOOK...
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Image from Issue No. 6 | Notes From The Studio: A New Start and Showing Up For Myself in 2024 Every month or so I’m going to post a reminder that my “artist journal” these days is basically the same thing as my Substack newsletter. You can read more about why I made...
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Photo Credit: Casa di LaValle Ceramics by Salto Workshop Destination Ongoing has already been shared in my newsletter (sign up here) and on Instagram, but I wanted to share my latest painting collection in an official blog post as well. As of today three of the ten...
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Alive With Beginning I’m obsessed with the plant life in Southern California. I even unintentionally had a bedroom with a palm tree beach mural when I was in high school. It wasn’t Southern California, probably French Polynesia or another island paradise. But I’ve...
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It started with July’s full moon / supermoon — the urge to release. New moons are a time to plant seeds, full moons are a time of release. There’s something about tides and other stuff too, but I can’t remember everything I read, especially not these days....
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At the end of April — early May I got an opportunity to visit a friend of mine that I’ve known since college. We met in Louisiana and both ended up finding home on the West Coast. She’s been living in the Bay Area while I’ve shuttled between Seattle and Los Angeles....
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One of the goals that often comes up in art classes, journaling workshops, or creativity courses is to “return to and create from your childhood — the time when you felt most happy and free.” That’s never been a useful exercise for me. I feel more happy and free now,...
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A Quiet Morning I usually start every morning by reading part of a nonfiction book while I have coffee. Sometimes it’s a book that I’ve already read and am in the process of revisiting for fresh insight. Maybe it’s an art book and I’m studying color palettes or...
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