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Monday Blues

6/20/2022

 
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All That Must Be, Coming Home, In The Sweetness Of You, It's Good To Hear From You & Room With A View

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Western Home Journal | Park City | Summer & Fall 2022

6/16/2022

 
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I am thrilled to announce that my work has been featured in the Summer/Fall 2022 Park City issue of Western Home Journal Magazine!

"Living Fearlessly" by Danielle Vigueria

"This phase of my artistry is coming into myself and being less afraid in what I share with the world." Samantha daSilva

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Desert Quartet

6/8/2022

 
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The desert makes me feel small. I welcome this feeling.

To be dwarfed, from time to time, by the magnitude of our surroundings, helps calm the disrupting anxiety that what we do matters so much. Any notion of self-importance dissolves when I walk on the other-worldly shores of Antelope Island and the bleach-white vistas of the Bonneville Salt Flats.

The desert landscape reminds me we are merely human: Soft, humble and temporary. I am at the whim of the same forces that laid out those canyons and chiseled those abrupt, life-giving mountains. Nature does not care whether I live or die. It is not inherently cruel or coddling. I both love and hate her for it.

In the Utah desert, I enter the whole of nothingness. I feel both minuscule and held.

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In Her Studio

6/4/2022

 
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We can't help it. We paint who you are. The canvas is your mirror.

"As Within, So Without.”


For an artist, the process of self-inquiry is essential to the creative journey. The more intimately you know yourself, the better your art will be. 

I love asking questions! But even more than just asking, I love to answer them. Asking and answering questions can act like a powerful compass in finding your true north. 

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New Work | An Erotic Landscape

5/28/2022

 
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The desert is a timid lover. It reveals itself slowly. Its barren surface is a facade meant to keep the impatient from staying here long. It's as though the landscape has been stripped of every overindulgence and distilled to its essential, grandiose spirit. Curiously, there is something about the austerity of the desert that makes me feel like: "I have arrived. I am home." I am mesmerized, addicted and seduced.

Paintings inspired by the colors, textures and spirit of the Great Salt Lake.

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Great Salt Lake Inspiration

5/25/2022

 
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For a person who's experienced so much geographical movement & upheaval, I welcome the sentiment that the ethereal, other-worldly landscape of the Great Salt Lake imparts to my soul: "I have arrived. I am home."

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Practicing Mindfulness

5/22/2022

 
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​What is the significance of 108 holes on a canvas? 

​According to traditional Buddhist teaching, 108 represents the number of mortal desires which one must overcome to achieve Nirvana. Mala Beads are often used as a meditation tool, so that a mantra can be recited as you move your fingers along the beads.

The Illuminated Desert
​acrylic & mixed media on canvas
​36 x 60 in.

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Blue Diptych

5/22/2022

 
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Blue - the most universally loved color. So many requests lately for commission paintings including blue. In approaching my work, I always try to chose a varied palette of textures - not only in terms of how they  will appear on the canvas, but also how they will contrast with each other. 

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Upcoming Exhibitions

5/21/2022

 
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June 24 - August 5
​DREAM STATES
Finch Lane Gallery

Opening Reception 
Friday, June 24
6 - 9 PM


&


September 16 - November 16
AN EROTIC LANDSCAPE
WOW Atelier

Opening Reception 
Friday, September 16
6 - 9 PM

​&


October 21 - November 11
​THE ILLUMINATED DESERT
Alpine Art

Opening Reception 
Friday, October 21
6 - 9 PM

WOW Atelier

5/19/2022

 
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Announcing an Exclusive Collaboration with Salt Lake City - based WOW Atelier
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Join us for 3 Upcoming Opening Receptions:

Friday, June 17th Trent Call
Friday, September 16th Samantha daSilva 
Friday, December 2nd Cody Rex Chamberlin

Catered bytes by Meet Fresh & Rose Line Pottery

​For an award-winning architecture firm whose projects include creating identical renderings from Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" for their clients,  I am inspired to push my own creative boundaries to new, unusual & exciting frontiers. 

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