I believe all artists exist in their own liminal space and the waking world at the same time. We slip in and out of our portals, traveling to our own internal universe where our art lives. Every one is unique, and only the creator has the key.

When we leave this place inside ourselves, we take with us the seedlings of our art, the beginnings of our work. We take it back to this temporal plane, and shape it with our hands, care for it, grow it. Turn it into something worth showing everyone else.

Art is an invitation. A peek inside that individual’s secret realm. Brief windows into lush kingdoms and sprawling forests, teeming with ideas. You may never get to step through, but you can imagine what a visit would be like from seeing what they show you. Some of us stumble into our portals sooner than others. Some may get locked out and have to find a new key to return. Others yet may find their doorway when they are about to give up hope that it exists.

I’m grateful that at fifteen I discovered the portal into my own creative dimension through the viewfinder of a camera, and I have been visiting there daily to pick the pieces that are ready to bloom. If you haven’t found your way yet, remember the door could be anywhere, and you just have to look.

This photo exists because I just wanted to make a love letter to the thing that has kept me going for the past 19 years. This is the first film camera I bought as an adult. I still have and use it. A documentation of the flower filled land of my personal mythology, colliding with the tool I use to illustrate that land for others. ❤️

Printa of this piece, “Portal” now available in my shop.
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Details from “Oasis” - swipe for full piece and other photos of it.

I created this piece to be a representation of what I try to visualize during a migraine attack to stay calm. A cool, lush bed of flowers sprouting around me. The full artist statement is on my site under this print listing if you’re interested.

I used to have chronic daily migraine- meaning 15 or more migraine days per month. I was beginning to lose hope that I’d ever have a normal life, as I was constantly housebound due to pain. I was struggling to keep up with my work and family.

I exhausted all the other options and started using a new medication recently, a CGRP blocker shot that I take once monthly. I went from an attack every other day and constant low grade pain, to one migraine in the first month. I’ve had three total since I began the shot. It’s nothing short of a miracle for me.

I added pillows to my shop recently and this is the first photo I put on one. I keep it on my bed every day as a reminder to be present and grateful in the life I’ve been given back, and something to hold onto during my now-infrequent episodes to remind me how far I’ve come.

If you struggle with migraines too, have hope, and keep trying. I tried about 15 different meds before a neurologist helped me get approved for my shot. Even though it took forever to get, it changed my life. Hang in there ❤️
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Happy Friday! I’m looking forward to spend the long weekend with friends visiting from out of town, do you have any special plans?

Happy Friday my friends! Enjoy our little flower loop 🌺🍃

“Just living is not enough...one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” -Hans Christian Anderson // 🌷 Welcome to our loop, a Friday collaboration of photographers who share a love for all things floral! A flower can represent love, happiness, friendship, good fortune, gratitude, forgiveness, remembrance, and many more. They are with us through joy and sadness and bring life and color into our world. See how each of these photographers have captured the beauty & magic of flowers this week by going through our tag or go to the next artist to make your way through the loop!
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✴️Happy 4th of July sale: 20%off on 8x10 and up fine art prints (link in bio) ...

Handmade in Yorkshire, ethically produced, eco friendly and sustainable dresses, including some made from recycled plastic bottles retrieved from the ocean. Big boots and a ‘less is more’ winter bouquet of snakes head fritillary, clematis seedheads and some #lovelydeadcrap
Totally my kind of wedding 💥
Hayley rolling_in_roses and I have worked together for many years now and it’s always been ‘different’. Even though I don’t really do weddings any more, when Hayley requested a bouquet that’s ‘as out there as you like’ for her new collection, I knew she really meant it and just couldn’t say no.
Watch Hayley’s latest IGTV video for an insight into this fabulous Yorkshire designer, her ‘cool bridal shop’ and the stories behind some of her materials.
‘You can have a lovely dress that is a benefit to the world rather than a detriment to it’
Oh, and they all have sleeves 👌

Dresses rolling_in_roses
Photography zachgracefilms
Hair & makeup victoriafarrmua
Jewellery bluemeadow_ and roakestudio
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May is a month where everything is humming with life. The bees are buzzing in the bushes, the sun is beaming- even through the frequent Pacific Northwest rain showers.

Flowers are in bloom everywhere. Every leaf and petal swaying in the breeze, dancing to the rhythm of springtime. Everything ramps up slowly in March and April, and suddenly explodes into life in May.

It’s a sweet, golden month full of promises. In this time I always wish so much that I had a garden that was blooming. A backyard where I could grow the plants and flowers I want to choose for my work, instead of wandering the market in search of something they may never have.

I sit in my tiny apartment, looking out over my balcony at the world. I wonder if I’ll ever be able to afford have a backyard or a house. It pains my heart a little, but I remember that the world beyond where I sit is one big garden. There’s plenty out there for me to use in my works, even without coaxing the stems from the earth myself. So I walk to the market, I choose carefully, and I pick things growing next to the sidewalk on the way home.

All of that makes this, and even though I can’t grow them myself, I’m still proud of what new things I can create with them ❤️
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Prints of “Spring Rhythm” available now in my shop! 15% off til tomorrow.
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Today I am full of plans and to-dos. Spring will do that to you 🌷 I am so fortunate that so much of my time is spent creating beauty for people to see. Thank you for continuing to come here, to witness it unfold.

Today I am sharing this detail from the set of my piece “Prehistoric”.

Swipe for full piece, bonus shot of the bouquet I made after, a shadow study of a single protea, and artist statement!

Prints of “Prehistoric” are available at my shoppe and the other shots are available upon request ❤️
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