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Late December studio ✨

Here’s a closer look at the recent commission pieces I mentioned a few posts ago. It felt a little unfamiliar to work without the intention of having some sort of direct maternal form represented in the piece. Funny how we “paint” o

I really love making these studio scrap pieces. I think they may be informing some larger work I’m hoping to try in 2020. Putting a few up for grabs in my stories today! Acrylic, spray paint, pastel, colored pencil, paper, and glitter on sewn a

Snapped last week during a sunny studio day as I finished up a commission (3 pieces on the floor) for a local business...a nice surprise to get a big commission once in a while! 🙏🏼

To most of you, this is just a photo of a random group of strangers. To me, these women are... everything. They are the 42 souls who showed up at the #artistmotherretreat I put together last weekend. I’m having a hard time putting into words wh

Can I shout it from the instagram rooftops?! The amazing, supportive, inspiring, wonderful network of Artist/Mothers is going to have their first group exhibition!! I’m so so pumped to be putting this together. The show call was inspired by an

The leaves are covering our backyard and I’m feeling an internal shift as much as I’m experiencing this seasonal change. The last several months we have been pushing hard, experiencing a lot and hanging on through a busy season. Now we ar

Packing up and heading out to the #iheartmotelart show this weekend! Really excited to be invited to participate by an awesome Artist/Mama @erinaustenabbott and to meet my friends @adriennemeschelle and @coultyalo in person, plus so many more great a

I am no longer the mama who has no photos of herself and her kids. Or her husband. 🙌🏼 Ya’ll, get some photos done and remind yourself of all the invisible labor you are doing to keep your family healthy, happy and alive. Have the kids stand c

Nice to see the studio flooded with sunshine after a few overcast days(but dang am I glad the temps are out of the 90s). My studio is chock full of work right now in all stages- recent returns from shows, new paintings I’ll be bringing to the #

Stains and scratches and pools and puddles. Constantly trying to push the materiality of my paintings, fighting to make sense of what I want them to say, how I want them to look, and responding to what I feel. 🎨

These studio visitors though 😍

Some days I want to move to a city so I can start an Artist/Mother co-op studio, with childcare and space for meet ups and C O M M U N I T Y. I started the @artistmotherpodcast in February because I live 2hrs from any

Here is the work I sent across the pond for the @spiltmilkgallery show opening 9/28 in Edinburgh! A diptych titled “An Unceasing Birth”. Both pieces are 12" x 16", acrylic, spray paint, and pastel on canvas.

Super fun but full

Really honored to share that I have a set of 2 paintings going up in my first international exhibition! Showing with 40 other artists at Gallery One in Edinburg, Scotland for the @spiltmilkgallery members show. The preview event, happening tomorrow (

3 of these 4 paintings are up at @jamesmaygallery for a few more days! So grateful to have been a part of the Beyond Earth and Sky group show this Fall.

The bottom left painting is still hanging in my studio. I’m not sure why, but she hasn&rsq

My gratitude list is long, but here’s the short version: 3 healthy and bright kids to call my own, homemade cookies, a backyard space that functions well for our family and cooler evenings to enjoy it. #emeraldhomestead

Studio time has been about 50% of what I’d prefer for this week. But it still happened!! Maybe motherhood just lowers my standards or maybe it provides more opportunity for mindfully choosing deep gratitude?! 😂🙏🏼 #wip#worksinprogress#artistm

Cute kiddo in my studio.

Alternate caption: Wishing for some time to paint today or a day to catch up on work but holding resentment at bay and keeping the kids fed and happy instead. 😉 Who feels me? 🙋🏼&zwj;♀️

Why is it so hard to remember that so much of this process should be about experimentation and play? 🌈

What Keeps Me Going, 30”x40”, acrylic, spray paint, pastel on canvas. This painting is currently on view at @thenashvillefoodproject - Swipe to see this Mama on the wall. It was such a fun space to hang work, the design was perfect for my