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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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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