The Monochromatic Collection at Casa di LaValle

Jun 12, 2024 | Client Work, Creative Projects, Fine Art, Painting, Travel

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... Read More

In My Sketchbook: Sketchbook Pages April-May 2023

May 21, 2023 | Sketchbook, Travel

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... Read More

How Categorizing My Art Held Me Back

Jan 8, 2023 | Creative People, Creative Process, Fine Art, My Creative Journey, Painting

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... Read More

Behind the Scenes: Daily Journaling

Dec 15, 2022 | Creative People, Creative Process, Fine Art, Mindfulness, My Creative Journey, Writing

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... Read More

Mood Board Monday: Traveling Through Tuscany

Sep 12, 2022 | Creative Process, Creative Projects, Fine Art, Painting, Travel

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... Read More