This summer was spent painting in dreamy colour scapes — and it was everything. 

By using my photographs from a trip to California in 2017, I created a series of twelve ethereal original oil landscape paintings. This trip changed my life completely and indefinitely. It inspired me in ways I didn’t think were possible at the time.

Before I even began painting this collection, I imagined all of the delicate colours I would use. Pastels, warm earth tones, blues, pinks, and purples. I collected paint swatches, mixed colours in my sketchbook, and dreamt up all sorts of wonderful combinations. Dreaming about them was one thing, working with them was another. Seeing my inspiration come to life, slowly, one brush stroke at a time.

It was pivotal in capturing the emotion of these pieces, transcending through time. An intersection of the past and the present. A collection of paintings which are tranquil, light, and ethereal. Using colour purposefully to create a particular mood for each piece was important, rather than rendering a completely accurate representation of life. 

I believe this collection, and my business, came to be through feeding my feeling of Wanderlust in 2017. It’s that feeling of Wanderlust that made me return to my art practice. It made me pursue my career and passion as an artist. It’s what made me decide I needed to revisit the photographs from that trip and create this collection.

I used my old photographs from my trip and digitally altered them as a starting point for each painting. The landscapes have many elements of realism but these paintings are not meant to be replicas of my photographs, but rather an impression of the time, the place, and the feelings from my past.

It’s like looking back on those moments with a lens of nostalgia. A balance between the raw process and expressiveness of the moment, and representational place and subject. Time has passed and these are moments through the lens of my future self. An interpretation of my experiences then, but now. A juxtaposition of the past and present. All of this is a way to express looking back at a moment in time, capturing the feeling in those moments, and interpreting it in a way that feels relevant to me today.

INSPIRED BY NOSTALGIA OF PAST ADVENTURES.

FIND BEAUTY FOR YOUR HOME AND PEACE FOR YOUR SOUL.

I hope you are able to get lost in the sun-soaked colour scapes of The Wanderlust Collection. 

Thank you for being here, and thank you for believing in me.

With Love,

Kristi