Have you considered a commissioned still life of your beloved things?
Let Victoria create a tale of your life and loves in a commissioned fine painting - This intimate process begins with a personal conversation:
First, you will share what you envision for your special artwork, on a phone or video call with the artist. All your questions addressed.
Second, you will agree on a size and price, provide a deposit and sign a letter agreement reflecting your choices.
Third, you will choose your objects, and send a selection to Victoria’s studio - No object is too humble nor too grand.
Fourth, Victoria will propose a choice of designs in a photograph. After you approve, the painting will begin.
Here’s an example of a photo incorporated into a painting. Ordinarily, Victoria does not paint “from a photograph” which is why she needs to see and place your treasures one by one, although photographs can be painted in situ, including of people and objects you no longer have.
In this painting, a mother's favorite hydrangeas, shiny green apples, and the English bridle of a beloved family show horse who carried the little girls in the photo to so many arena ribbons and trophies. The sisters are in the photo painted into the scene, holding up their ribbons in celebration! And in the lower right corner a pearl and rhinestone horseshoe brooch twinkles from this memory of happy times with a gentle and majestic horse.
Victoria loves to paint places, cherished family homes or businesses.
A home or business “portrait” requires a site visit. If all you have is a photograph of a former building or home, that photograph can be vividly memorialized in still life.
Current price for family home landscape commissions are $8.00/square inch plus travel expenses for site painting visit. This painting preserved for the owners a 1930’s vintage caretakers bungalow on a Florida historic estate, originally built by hand of native cypress as a religious retreat. Since the buildings are no longer standing, and the gardens gone the painting is a precious memory for it’s last owners.
From the chimp who poses with a straw earring (Frans DeWaal) to mate-inspiring bird plumage to our our earliest human cave paintings, art is our ancient living heritage.
Today you have the oportunity to own a personalized marvel of artistry, a visual story that speaks for you and of you and of those you love.
While we follow trends in interior design and fashion, there’s a deep connection to history in each of us, our own history, favorite colors, flowers, tools, meaningful objects worn or preserved, stowed in memories much like melodies we won’t forget.
This still life tells the story of Lily’s purple slippers, and represents a memorable trip for a little girl, now grown, and her mother.
When 7 year old Lily, the second of four children, took her turn for a special “only child” trip with her parents to Switzerland, staying at the magnificent Dolder Grande Hotel, attending the Zurich opera and meeting the distinguished soprano Michelle Crider, shopping for precious chocolates on the Bahnhoffstrasse, and choosing a pair of purple velvet slippers, which she brought home and wore until she outgrew them.
