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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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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A Quiet Morning I usually start every morning by reading part of a nonfiction book while I have coffee. Sometimes it’s a book that I’ve already read and am in the process of revisiting for fresh insight. Maybe it’s an art book and I’m studying color palettes or...
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One of the things that I want to do a better job of is giving you a bit of a bigger picture when I share my art with you. For instance, photography is a huge part of my creative process. It’s how I see and discover details. I actually used to work professionally as 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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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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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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