Spring Tulips Lookbook
The spring tulips release will include eight original paintings by Katie Mosley completed at her studio in Cincinnati, Ohio during February and March.
Each piece was created using acrylics and oil pastel. Size availability includes 30x44 inches on paper. Framing is not included; however, if you would like to consult with me about framing choices, I would be happy to do so free of charge.
Thank you for taking the time to stop and meditate on these works. While this collection is just now being released, I have been working on developing these tulips for over a year. A pile of sketches and art mistakes got me to this moment. Each tulip begins as a single line sketched with pencil and ends with a single line using oil pastel. I can never quite get both lines to match exactly… and there is just something I love about the fleeting existence of a mark in present time.
Tulips from Washington Park in Cincinnati, Ohio right around the corner from my home and studio.
When I started creating the first pieces in this collection, a very dear friend of mine said, “You know what I love about these? They look so... human.”
The past 12 months poised themselves as one big reckoning with our humanity and its fragility. I have been reminded about the beauty of our capacity to dream, while also mourning the dreams of our life that will never come to fruition. I have seen deep joy in our commonality and have simultaneously felt utterly alone. We have craved the old ways of living and have also watched death all around us. Paradox bookends our humanity.
I often consider my relationship with art about exploring life’s dualities and all that lies in between. The life of a tulip is fleeting, but, like all living things, it feeds that which interacts with it. The flowers that grow next to it. The insects that rest on its petals. The humans that walk by it. Consciously or not, we give and receive from the life of a single tulip.
This collection reminds me to remain grounded in my humanness, full of disappointment and joy... every stroke of my paintbrush acting as resistance against perfection.
Below, you can find a first look at the tulips on sale this Wednesday at 10 AM EST. Whether viewing for purchase or enjoyment, your choice to pause and take time in this little corner of the web means everything to me and is the only reason I am able to do what I love for a living. Thank you again, dearest friends.
