I love colour! When I was but a young gypsy gal moving from town to town with my posse of friends, back in the times when everything I owned fit into my beloved 1976 Chevette, I would spend hours making hemp jewelry and painting flower pots. I always wished that I had a talent for drawing (and singing), but try as I might, I have been drawing the same darn tree for 30 years now, and it isn't pretty. 

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I moved to Powell River in the summer of 2017, and got really excited when I saw what my long time friend, Tatiana Kostiak of The Fiddleback Shack, had gotten in to; creating beautiful pieces of reimagined furniture with milk paint. The possibility of being creative with colour and paint, without the need to have drawing or sketching skills thrilled me. I learned from the very best when Tatiana taught me how to refinish my coffee table, and have been excelling at this art for the past 6 years.

 

I am deeply inspired by nature and love vibrant colours, and my work reflects this. I use a mix of different paints and finishes but often find myself reaching for two of my favourite top shelf products: milk paint and Unicorn Spit Gel Stains. All-natural milk paint is special in the way that it brings out the best in the wood's grain, is unpredictable in which pigments might come to the surface and is so soft to the touch. Unicorn Spit offers the ability to be bold in colour but transparent enough to show off the wood's natural grain. Each piece that I work with tells me what colour it wants to be... really, it does! I use museum quality beeswax, hemp oil, or varnish to finish, depending on the primary use of the furniture piece.

 

I love doing custom work, so if you have a wood based piece of furniture that you love, but would love to see revitalized, please do drop me a line!