From the Vault: Release 1/10 - Hand-Embellished Print Series

This is Day One. I’m releasing one reimagined From the Vault piece each day for 10 days; affordable, collectible, and extremely limited. Only 7 hand-embellished 8x8 inch prints of each painting will ever exist. Once the 7 are spoken for, the edition closes forever.

 

Early Bird Bonus: the first two collectors of each Vault print get a handwritten greeting card from me, with a behind-the-scenes message about the painting + an art sticker. 

 

If you end up collecting multiple pieces over the 10-day release, I’ll have a little thank you gift for you at the end. Just a surprise from me to you.

 

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Let's go into the VAULT ~ which houses over 20 years of emotions and creations. In 2008, as a mother of 2 babies, I was painting in the laundry room and held ridiculous expectations for myself in regard to how clean the house was and how much time I spent playing with my boys. I once asked my great aunt who was 80 (she raised 4 kids): "how MUCH time should I be playing with my kids per day?" Her response was "a little here, a little there". 

 

That didn't help, but over time, I compiled my own answer:

 

Look into your child/ren's eyes... and you will KNOW what they need. Is it more time with you? A meal? Snuggles? A nap?

 

A glimpse from the past, a snippet from a 2008 journal entry: 

"I was listening to Let It Be by the Beatles and I realized that being a painter has allowed me to pull so many loose creative ends of my existence into one fine and fairly organized weave: my love of design/composition, music, line, whimsy, form, skin, motherhood, writing and spiritual open-mindedness.

 

There is an awareness I feel while painting and writing in my humble studio that I would pay big bucks for. There is a world full of ideas, sources and inspiration ~ and when I’m fully tapped in, I am humbled. It is an awareness of what I have been given and how I should use it.

 

Tonite when I went to cover my big boys, they were transformed before my eyes. My 4-year-old, lying on his back, arched his little back and scrunched his face with his fresh short haircut. He made grunty dream sounds and was for me, a tiny baby for a second! In the next room, my almost 3-year-old reached for me in his sleep and folded his little legs up. I took him to the rocking chair and as I held and rocked him, I stroked his edibly soft cheek and felt him melt into me. 

 

Then I realized all the sudden that I was just given a gift… I was given the gift of my boys as "babies". A time I can’t physically have back… this gift was obvious, and I was thankful. I do not ache to have more babies, but I do occasionally ache for my own to be babies again... even if just for a minute."

 

 

RELEASE NUMBER ONE: PEARL

Written in 2008, during her creation: I continue my obsession and fascination with the way I can fit figures together. I love painting skin. This small child is in a raw style, his eye looks out at me from the root of my stylistic ideas. The time she has with him as a baby: precious as the pearl perched between them. Her body, like the structure of an oyster, protecting and encasing its special hidden gift.

 

Written in 2019: I am drawn in by this eye, still. I am in adoration of their skin and the colors hidden within. I was bold in creating a mother’s naked body taking up the whole canvas. We are bold when we are young, and for some reason we tend to lose it, to conform. Blast that, I want that boldness back.

 

 

 

 

 

Heavy, textured Velvet Satin Paper.

Only 7 prints. 

Hand-embellished. 

Straight from the Vault.

 

Each print of Pearl will be individually embellished with my brushes and paints, then signed and dated. You can even request eye color and/or hair color accents customizations.

 

Thank you for joining me on this journey back into the past!

Love & Sincerely, Katie