A sketchbook page that I did from photos I took in Scotts Valley and the central coast in California. I’ve recently re-started my sketchbook practice. I used to spend a ton of time working in sketchbooks and that practice became a springboard for new ideas in the...
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Earlier this year I had an epiphany, or an “aha moment” as our friend Oprah might say. I realized that I had been holding myself back from things that I want. Like, without even KNOWING it. I’d become so used to my daily routines that I trapped myself in them, in a...
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Last week the interior design trade publication Business of Home shared my interior designer trade program with their readers. I loved corresponding with Caroline Biggs and I appreciate her enthusiasm for my art and the program! Caroline covered what led me to create...
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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 inspired by...
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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 see...
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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 professionally as a...
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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 with...
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Beautiful Paia in Maui. Photograph by Melanie Biehle, November 2022 Sometimes 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 my website lately...
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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 into a much bigger...
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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 of art....
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