– ABOUT –

Having grown up on a boat traveling the ocean from island to island. I feel that my connection to the sea has been one of the biggest inspirations for my artwork, and it comes though in most everything that I do. Being an artist, I’ve always seen beauty in life.

I think that pattern of thought really helped me to focus on finding that beauty again when I found myself struggling as a single parent with two very small children to support overnight. On a recent trip to the Lourve in Paris, I noticed how much of the art focused on pain, sadness, death, darkness and misery.

As an artist I feel that we see emotion everywhere we look. But I think you choose which emotions you focus on. Pain can be beautiful, but only when you see it in a positive light. I make a conscious effort every day to surround myself and my two boys with beauty and joy. Sometimes that can be as simple as a moment to enjoy a cup of coffee, or to watch the waves of the ocean roll into the shore….

Rochelle

“Happiness is letting got of what you think your life is supposed to look like & celebrating it for everything that it is”

– Mandy Hale

“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in it’s net of wonder forever”

– Jacques Cousteau