Welcome to StudioMate

(like Mati pronounced Matey)

Sharing my studio inspirations, challenges and breakthroughs…. just like we are studiomates :)

Painting Dry spell

Since I’ve moved to Charleston, I haven’t painted as much as usual or been inspired to and it’s been frustrating AF!!! Thankfully I have a room in my new house to paint in, but I REALLY MISS MY Moonflower shared art studio back in Berkeley and all my mates. Anyway, I’ve been painting off and on the last 6 months but haven’t felt the spark... wacky weird wonky paintings that haven’t made a ton of sense to me. Today I got TIRED OF MY BS!!! Can anyone relate to this?!

Push Past the Resistance

I said to myself~ Just show up in the studio and PUSH PAST the resistance dude! It’s a practice and I need to just keep showing up at the canvas regardless of outcome. I’ve already done heaps of kind compassionate talking to myself over the last several months and giving myself so much permission and grace etc etc etc, so it was time for a tougher talking to because.... Art is my medicine, feeds my soul, is how I process the world and feel alive.... why am I not allowing this connection and joy?! Yes, the world feels on fire, and I’ve been missing my friends and home of 25 years, but enough of the pity party, Mati.

Sometimes it takes a long time to integrate….

I also pulled out my art (pictured here) from my art residency in France several summers ago... and saw the thread to my current art so clearly... BOOM. It’s all connected and starting to emerge. Sometimes it takes a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng time to integrate art and so like the butterfly coming out of the cocoon (which cheesy or not, butterfly wings are original inspo for this series)... it’s emerging. Writing this publicly so I will continue to share. Thanks for reading this far and witnessing the emergence. Love you, mean it. xxoxoxoo

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