This is not a Paris Vacation Guide. It’s a peek into what I notice and how I see. It’s been three months since we visited Paris. I keep hoping that I’ll come up with some clever organized way to share everything about my trip, but I’m tired of thinking about it and I...
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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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We visited Puerto Vallarta in February 2024 to escape the Pacific Northwest winter rain for a few days and to do our in-person interview for the Global Entry travel program. We’re hoping for more international travel in our future — France is happening in April! — so...
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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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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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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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Getting a glimpse at what goes on outside of the studio is often more revealing than what you see when an artist stands in front of the canvas. Inspiration collected in the forms of experiences, emotions, color palettes, landscapes, patterns, and even scents from a...
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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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