STUDIO SALE

FIRST EDITION

A Hand Bound Selection of Small Works, Art Panels, and Wall Coverings for Interior Designers

  • The First Edition was released in November of 2023 with a limited run of thirty hardcover, foil embossed books. Each numbered, printed and hand bound in Los Angeles, CA.

    There are currently 8 available copies for sale.

  • Domestic shipping is included.

“By collaborating with our home, we coax out individual qualities, and build a richer relationship with the place and all the things that compose it. It’s in the finest of details that a place becomes indelible, and integrated with us.”

Pipperoo Scarf (preorder)

  • Pipperoo comes from a lineage of incidental whims. The earliest representation was a pencil sketch made while teaching a technique for drawing big cats. That slip of paper floated around for some months until getting reused while testing a new method of image transfer onto silk. It continued to float until being used to trial a shading technique. The pink leaves were added as an exploratory freehand doodle. Some months later it was scanned with a bevy of other small pieces to be catalogued. Filed away on a hard drive it sat unattended until I began tinkering with scarf design. An early version of Pipperoo still had the original watercolor painted artwork. Eventually I reimagined the whole pieces as clean, graphic, line art.

  • 24” - Silk/Cotton - Hand Rolled Hem

    The material, size, and color way is limited to thirty-six pieces, hand numbered. It arrives gift wrapped with a hand written, signed note, indicating its number and signifying authenticity.

    You may dry-clean or hand wash with Eucalan soap.

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Sucrelibre Scarf

  • Yet another representation of its namesake motif. Here, the honeycomb anatomical heart or, Sucrelibre I keep returning to is bracketed with kaleidoscopic frames of foliage. This limited edition scarf was created as a gift to my collaborators, dear clients, and designers I admire. There were 9 additional copies made for sale.

  • 36” - Silk - Hand Rolled Hem

    The material, size, and color way is limited to thirty-six pieces, hand numbered. It arrives gift wrapped with a hand written, signed note, indicating its number and signifying authenticity.

    You may dry-clean or hand wash with Eucalan soap.

  • Domestic shipping is included.

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Joie de Vivre

  • On a recent trip to the US-Mexico border, my husband and I spent many days exploring a landscape saturated with color. If you've experienced a desert in the peak of a springtime bloom, then you may appreciate how these arid spaces are a riot of ebullient life. Against the backdrop of large granite boulders stained orange in the open air, and through the fine desert dust that cloaked everything, the flowers reminded me of sugared violets on shortbread biscuits.

    We saw wide swaths of California Goldfields in synchronous bloom. From wherever we stood, they extended in every direction. An uncountable legion. Their tiny heads, yellow and orange up close, en masse, diffuse into lime green foliage. In the distance, they formed rivers of shimmering chartreuse.

    Lupines, penstemons, and blue cyanosis joined them. Rich jewels in a vast floral blanket. Joie de Vivre is a collection of Southern California wildflowers arranged in a 1.5” grid pattern.

  • One-off, 12” x 1” studio sample.

    Silk face with paper back. Watercolor and gouache.

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Tulips Sixocks

  • For me, this piece is very special. As I made it, I found enormous pleasure in the riotous flowers, the cheeky boys adorning the vase, and every ornate detail. I kept a limited palette so that I might focus more on character than hue—deviating only to add 'life experiences' to the leaves.

    The vase, roses, kumquats, tulips, and foliage are painted with translucent pigment, allowing the silk's subtle shimmer to bounce light through the design. The hydrangea blooms are a contrast between a saturated, berry-colored stain, and an opaque, milky-grey violet. The moths are entirely opaque gouache, which allows them to appear as if they're resting on top of the silk’s surface.

  • One-off, 16” x 15” studio sample.

    Silk face with paper back. Watercolor and gouache.

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Lemon Ball

  • Lemon Ball is a joyous riot of texture and diversity. It's an example of what I've been calling a "forescape." Landscape art is so often a spectacle of depth, with plane upon plane cohering into vistas of objects both near and far. A forescape has all the same fluid, naturalistic motifs, but without the multiplicity of planes and vistas. In contrast to portraiture, where a subject or subjects are brought into a foreground and supported by a framing backdrop, a forescape is populated by a multitude of subjects with an equal claim to any sense of a foreground. In this piece, translucent layers of pigment are built up to produce light-filled lemon branches. Myriad insects intertwine with the tumbling foliage. Their little bodies, often smaller than an inch, are painted with a chalky, light-reflecting gouache. This contrast is brought into sharp relief as the light on the painting changes angle. The fine opaque details of the insects are amplified, reflecting light just above the surface of the silk.

  • One-off, 14” x 13” studio sample.

    Silk face with paper back. Watercolor and gouache.

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Brix and Scoville

  • The 'Sucrelibre' motif came into my life in 2020. I immediately sensed its strength. I'd stumbled upon a new concept with the potential to offer me a lifetime of interpretation.

    In this grayscale tableaux, we have an environment of sweetness and heat. California pepperberry trees, eucalyptus, and Mexican foxglove frame a scene of leopards beneath the suspended honeycomb.

    Painting Brix and Scoville required, for me, a new level of patience and surrender. When I listened, yielded, and introduced graphite and ink to my palette, the piece really began to soar. The petals, fur, bees, and honeycomb have very discreet highlights in gouache which catch the light when viewed from an acute angle. What is a subtle shift towards white in one light is, in another, a more crisp, radiant highlight. There's a visceral, otherworldliness to it.

  • One-off, 20” x 16”.

    Silk face with paper back. Watercolor, graphite, ink, and gouache.

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Perennial Forget-me-not

  • The small garden surrounding our Los Angeles home welcomes you through a series of archways and gates. Planted at the base of one is a yellow David Austin rose called Teasing Georgia. It’s a playful, flashy thing with a multitude of petals. Underneath it grows a diminutive, utterly sweet, perennial forget-me-not. Though quite literally overshadowed by the climbing rose, the tiny blue blooms always draw my attention.

    This small vase is painted to feel antique. The yellowed patina and fine lines characteristic of crazing that develop after years of use are subtle hints to its long history. The figure in porcelain is at ease, sensual, and playfully outfitted in socks with garters.

  • One-off 7” x 9” studio sample. Silk face with paper back. Watercolor and gouache.

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The Gift

  • The Gift depicts a neo-mythological relationship between a snake and a Janus-faced man. One face gazes upon the snake, a hand gently holding its delicate head aloft. The other face watches as the bath overflows with his companion’s generosity. A play on and with the concepts of prosperity, generosity, medicine, and poison.

    French-ultramarine blue, in a multitude of gradient tones, applied to bone white silk, resembles painted porcelain. This association is magnified by 24k double gold leaf gilding.

  • One-off 18” x 16” studio sample. Silk face with paper back. Watercolor, gouache, and 24k gold.

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Tumble

  • Tumble is all about flow. Falling leaves—nearly weightless—suspended together in gesture and time. Like a long sigh, slowed down.

    Traditional chinoiserie is typified by expressing a range of minor variations on a theme, all the while retaining an iconographic effect.

    Here, I bring that pared-down, meditative design practice into my personal fascination with leaves. Each leaf is composed of approximately 130 brush strokes using four types of brush.

  • One-off 16” x 16” studio sample. Silk face with paper back. Watercolor and gouache.

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Tulips no. 12

  • An ongoing series at every scale.

  • One-off, 12” x 26”.Silk face with paper back. Watercolor and gouache.

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Spring du Jour

  • I prepped this silk with watercolor pigments and starch, giving everything a matte texture with a lot of variation. Layer upon layer built on top of one another, creating something like wood grain or a naturally dyed fiber. When I sat down to paint the subjects, I improvised. My initial impulses evoked figurines and hydrangea leaves. But after the first little sprig, I felt moved to continue with foliage alone.

    Then, in my garden I found foxglove, lemons, and violas. Using translucent color to create depth and creamy opaque colors for contrast, I explored specimen after specimen, all picked that day. Nicotiana, bidens, avocado, ageratum, and rose.

  • One-off 12” x 11” Silk face with paper back. Watercolor, gouache, and starch.

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