A small update from my studio

The past few weeks have been full.

Since the beginning of January I’ve been back to teaching six jewellery workshops a week, which has been energizing and also very energy consuming. A lot of my time lately has gone into showing up for students, planning, adjusting, holding space for their projects.

It means there’s been a little less painting than I’d like!

I have been working in small pockets though. I’ve started my long-term tarot project, which I’m excited to share more about soon. And I’ve been making a few small portrait-sized pieces of everyday scenes. Quiet studies. I posted one last week of some wool-socked feet propped up on a radiator and looking out a window to a snowy street below with an I❤️TO mug.

One more thing I did make time for was turning the Zodiac Women & Guitars series into prints.

The originals are small, 6×8, and still very new so I’m not ready to part with them yet. But I wanted the work to exist in another form.

I chose giclée printing so the colour and detail would hold up. They’re available in 8×12 and 12×18. I’m partial to the 12×18 because it gives the image more space to breathe, but the 8×12 feels intimate and easy to place.

If one of the women ever resonated with you and you’d like one for your space, the prints are here in my Etsy shop.

I’m also considering making prints of my calendar guitar women. If that’s something you’d want to see, let me know!

I’m lucky to be off this weekend for a long weekend and plan to work on more paintings & celebrate Galentine’s with a couple of lovely gals - my partner and I have our dating anniversary on the 15th and will go out then instead! I hope you get a little space for something that feels like yours this weekend.

Thanks for reading!
Meli