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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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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If you’re in the Seattle area, I’d like to invite you to stop by Outlier at the Kimpton Hotel Monaco for the Seattle Downtown Art Walk. I’ll be there on Friday, August 25th from 5 to 8pm (ish) for the opening and again on Friday September 22nd. I hope to meet some of...
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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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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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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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