Studio Blog — Ocean
"Onshore" Collection + Motherhood Themes
Beach Mother Mother Artist Motherhood Ocean Seaside Summer
"Onshore" was a theme or a concept that came to me in 2020. Typically when I have a child, I have an intense period of rest for about a year both physically and creatively. In January 2019, I welcomed my daughter into the world. That year was a period of intense rest for me. I was during that year or period of rest, I started to explore how and exactly why my personal life and my paintings overlapped. I began to go through my personal film, our family photos, and noticed at that time that I was always finding photos...
Blue Beaches in the Studio
Beach Blue Beaches Kids in Studio Ocean Waterscapes
These exaggerations awakened in me a deep sense of freedom and revealed a sort of instinctual thought pattern. I feel these paintings have been stored deep inside of me along with my childhood. This collection of "Blue Beaches" awakens early habits and sensations, and plunged me deep into that miraculous world of imagination.
Coastal Calendar Inspiration || 2023
I was drawn to patterns in the waves and colors that reflected themselves in the clouds, water, and sky. During my time I spent in my sketchbook ( I logged over 200 days this year alone) I started to develop a rhythm and work from a more intuitive place. I reached for colors based on how I was feeling that day, and made marks based on how being next to the ocean made me feel in that moment. Each day the ocean gave me a new energy, a new face, and the waves were different each day.