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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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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I’ve always loved reading “day in the life” magazine articles, so I was thrilled when Jennifer Magazine asked me to share a bit about how I spend my days. Read the article here for my morning must-haves and some of my favorite places to visit in Seattle! Thank you...
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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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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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If you’re in the Seattle area, I’d like to invite you to stop by Outlier at the Kimpton Hotel Monaco for the Seattle Downtown Art Walk. I’ll be there on Friday, August 25th from 5 to 8pm (ish) for the opening and again on Friday September 22nd. I hope to meet some of...
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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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It started with July’s full moon / supermoon — the urge to release. New moons are a time to plant seeds, full moons are a time of release. There’s something about tides and other stuff too, but I can’t remember everything I read, especially not these days....
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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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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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