New Collection: Breathing Room

I still have to close out the Secret Atlas collection, but today I really (really, really) wanted to sit down and build off of the piece I made recently with soft, translucent greens and browns. I finished that piece today, and spent some time thinking about the direction I want to keep moving in. Breathing Room Breathing Room will be a series of mixed media paintings that explore landscape as emotional refuge. Each piece will be less a depiction of land, sky, or water, and more a place to rest — an offering of space, breath, and calm. 1. Memory of Her This first one is 8″x8″ on Khadi handcrafted paper, and it’s called Memory of Her. It began with a color I’ve loved for years — celadon — and a recent obsession with a bottle of Bombay India ink labeled simply “green.” That sky? Celadon. The burst of mineral green at the bottom? That’s the green India ink. Memory of Her Celadon always takes me back to a bowl my grandmother bought me at a flea market in rural Kentucky. She ran her own…