Inspired by the timeless craft of botanical engraving, this piece celebrates six of the most beloved plants in the Mountain Rose Herbs apothecary: nettle, rose, calendula, vanilla, hibiscus, and echinacea. Each plant is honored for its healing properties, its lineage in herbal tradition and its enduring connection to the natural world.
Thank you to TurningArt for these beautiful install photos! I’m always grateful for collaborators who value bringing human designed, hand-painted art into everyday environments.
This piece is a love letter to that fleeting moment when the city shifts into spring and everything softens blooms and feels full of possibility. I focused on layered greens, soft light and the quiet energy of renewal that shows up this time of year in the Pacific Northwest.
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Workplace art has a unique role that shapes how a space feels day to day. My goal with this mural was to offer an homage to Portland and a sense of calm movement and seasonal connection for the people who experience it each day.
They will also be using this space for presentations, but in the meantime a digital copy of the mural is featured onscreen. A creative solution to tie the artwork into this multi-use space
Funky PNW themed mural design and installation full of raindrops, foliage, geese and textures of my homestate to life.
Mural by Jess Brinkerhoff, a Business Mural located in Tacoma Washington. Jess designs custom meaningful murals that enrich public spaces for over 15 years.
This mural lives in the Wildcraft Ciderworks interior music venue. I was asked to design a mural that included several of the botanicals they infuse into their ciders: rose, aronia, hops, mahonia, fireweed, yarrow, fiddleheads, fern, hawthorne and many more.
This colorful design added vibrancy to a dim grey parking garage for student housing. The bold abstract design features track runners as a nod to Eugene, Oregon’s Tracktown heritage.
The Gordon Hotel requested a mural design for the facade of their art hotel downtown. This piece features my favorite Oregonian flower from childhood, the Indian Paintbrush, or Castilleja.
Growing up in Oregon, several teachers taught me reverence for our landscape and I use art to return the favor to the next generations. Identifying and painting the native plants of my home state is a lifelong project. Indian Paintbrush, a favorite native plants in Oregon, is featured in this design alongside a companion plant Balsamroot Arrowleaf. The piece is meant to show a metaphorical hand presenting this gift from the land as a metaphor for times right now when flowers still bloom.
The Inn at the Prom in Seaside, Oregon asked for a feature wall mural that was abstract, simple and colorful while including ocean life. Since botanicals are one of my favorites, this was a lovely partnership resulting in a mural featuring Seaside treasures like bull kelp, coral and sand dollars. Their bright brand colors directed the color palette for this selfie wall.
The Inn at Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, Oregon requested these lovely muted colors from their branding guide and I may be hooked on these dimmed down complementary palettes. The mural features the famous Haystack Rock and species to be found there: gooseneck barnacles, starfish, puffins, clams and kelp.
Civic Winery is an innovative natural winery and bottle shop. They asked me to get urban and creative with their signage while using the historic architecture of the 1937 Civic Building as the canvas. With letters from an old Italian typeface, I hand painted their signage and created three abstract mural paintings on the facade of the building.
This wall has history in Eugene, Oregon. Owned by Aqua Serene, this wall helped set the precedent for murals on businesses and gain permissions to put art on their buildings. The former fish mural held up pretty well for 30 years! Now it has a fresh transformation that suits both the coffee shop and Aqua serene with some requested hidden surprises.
Coffee Plant Roaster asked me to enliven these blue bathroom walls with coffee plants!
Visit them for fresh ground coffee and their fantastic food menu all made in house.