signature art for your signature life

"Creativity is not only what hangs on your walls. it's about how you approach life And express it!"

I'm here to

spur you on!

Wise people say that the first page of your website should lead people to the one thing you want them to do. I have mulled over this for days, months, years...

What is the one thing I want you to do?

Can I be really honest?

You're welcome to purchase art here, but the one thing I really want you to do is to feel better.

I paint and write from a place that I call home - a place where I am loved and am free to love with confidence.

"If a piece I create helps you understand, accept or tell your story, then I'm over the moon!"

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Discover a signature piece of art that tells your story

Please explore my original artwork selection. I have several collections for you to choose from. I'm truly more of a storyteller than a classical artist. While I'm most known for my acrylic and mixed media pieces, I'll use watercolors, pen and ink, or whatever medium helps me tell the story on my heart.

(I confess it's hard for me to keep my website gallery fresh. My pieces seem to sell on the sooner than later side. But I'm excited to change that as I will soon be focused in one place.

However! If you want the first dibs, subscribe to either my IG and/or newsletter get the fresher attention. The newsletter folks get the first and best of everything. No hard selling or hounding you. (I don't like that either.)

Choose an original
wood-crafted keepsake

My amazing husband, Rich, and I have collaborated to make our Mr&Mrs C collection for you. Our motto for our original designs is to reinvent • repurpose • rejoice! Each item is uniquely crafted and many are customizable. (With our new season of being retirees, we are revamping. More updates soon!)

Find some inspiration and encouragement for your day

I love to write. Words, to me, are like a butterfly net to capture thoughts and moments of wonder.

LOVE, LYDIA (my blog) is where I breathe in some new thoughts, music, other artists, and nesting ideas. I might share a story, a daydream, or a deeper thought. It's my random place to process my life trying to love God and people the best I can. I am making every effort to be gut level honest, openly excited about new thoughts, friends, discoveries, and tenderly sympathetic to those in hard seasons who made need just a kind word or to even daydream of a better day.

NEWS!

I retired! (from one of my jobs)

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My work (sunset) is now featured in The Camano Shop at Camano Commons (formerly The Loft)

I'm sad/excited/humbled/happy.

I have now retired as Creative Director of The Loft at Camano Commons. Between being there for two years with Jed & Renae Dorsey and then creating The Loft as Jed & Renae left to create Acrylic University, I've had 7 amazing years with people I adore.

The Camano Shop has now taken the space and is already creating a place that keeps The Loft's legacy for people to gather and be surrounded by beauty.

What's next for Lydia C?

My word for the year is "simplify". As I reset for this next season, I'm grateful to now only have one email, one instagram, one newsletter, one studio, one vision. I think it will free me up to be more creative than ever.

I've combined my two studios and will get to paint from home! By the end of June, I hope (God willin' and the creek don't rise) to be set up for smooth online sales. I will also have prints available! (You asked. I'm trying to make it happen!).

I will still have ARTwear available online. I'll have a Camano Collection that is exclusively created for Camano Commons.

But I hope to have more fashion forward designs that you've asked for.

As for art, I'll be creating from my heart more boldly. The responses you have given when I "braved out" on canvas have been SO encouraging. THANK YOU!

AND I'll keep my newsletter going. I LOVE KEEPING TOUCH in the now with you!

But I'm holding it all loosely. I'm accepting who I was made to be - a creative soul who loves to create and to encourage other creative souls.

Here's a sneak peak of my home studio progress.

To get all the freshest fruit in terms of what's new in my studio and new designs, you can sign up for my newsletter at the bottom of the page!

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