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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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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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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Melanie’s paintings feel to me like they contain other worlds, and also evoke worlds from within. The earthy, deep quality of her Abstract Landscape series particularly spoke to me and after months of returning to her online gallery, I was thrilled to bring home...
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Update: Many of the original paintings have sold. Available paintings will have a direct link to purchase when you click on the image. If the original has sold and a print is available, there will be a link to it when you click on the image. I’m so excited to...
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This week I’ll be launching my latest painting collection – Simple Pleasures. It’s another collaboration with my friend Cassandra LaValle, an extremely talented interior stylist and curator of the beautiful shop Casa di LaValle. I’ll spill more details about the...
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I have been a longtime follower of Melanie on Instagram. When she posted an image of one of her latest original works at the time, I reached out to her and made arrangements to purchase the painting. Her paintings are gorgeous, and this piece just called to me. She...
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VIEWS FROM ABOVE The first time I flew on an airplane I was 20 years old. I was flying to Rhode Island to visit a college boyfriend who had recently moved back to his home state. Flying felt like a big deal. I remember being terrified, which wasn’t an odd feeling for...
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