The editor of Grayceful Living, a blog by the luxury and designer home decor and furniture company Layla Grayce, reached out to interview me about my creative process and inspiration. I loved revisiting how I got to where I am now and sharing some of my favorite art...
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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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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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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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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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Jess from CanvasRebel Magazine reached out to me recently to learn more about my background and art practice. Here’s a link to the interview! If you’d like to read more articles and interviews, check out my press page. If you’re a publisher and would like...
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Like many creative people, I have moved away from using my blog over the past several years because it became easier and more collaborative to share what I was working on and doing in my life over on Instagram. One of the things I had been thinking about doing when I...
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I’m starting to realize what I’ve been missing. Through the bouts of distraction, doubt, and low energy it has finally been made clear. I haven’t been nurturing myself. When I painted Through Darkness Comes Depth I didn’t realize how much I would need this...
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