October 28th, 2024

Landscapes have always been my surest reference point. My first memories are of Cape Cod’s shifting light and tonal colors. In art school, learning to understand creating abstract drawings as landscapes from my teacher Alfred De Credico gave me the confidence I needed to pursue painting. The simple idea of a background, midground, and foreground that I had learned as a child took on a profound new meaning. Even now, when I’m trying to explain why certain colors or patterns work well together, I find myself going back to nature and the landscapes that inspire me. Landscapes are how I understand the world, my art, and even myself.

To me, a landscape isn’t just mountains, trees, ocean, sky. It’s emotions, memories, stories, dreams, sensations. My inner landscape—what I’m feeling—shifts color, shape, and texture in response to what I’m observing in nature and how it hits me. Sometimes emotions burst into the foreground. Sometimes they recede into the distance, and the breeze can blow right through. I find that looking can be a form of healing. I remember reading that focusing on the horizon can help reduce stress—that makes sense to me. When I see something that resonates, it gives me a sense of peace and helps me come back to myself. It also inspires me to paint, to try to better understand what’s going on inside and out, to express things I don’t have words for in color and shapes.

I believe that when we try to understand our own inner landscape, we can feel it more completely. For me, that means landscape drawing. It means painting. It means sitting outside, feeling the wet grass and the cool air. It means looking and feeling. 

That’s where my patterns come from. They’re designed to be layered and combined to create a more idyllic calm and happy space. Looking ahead with my work, my hope is to cultivate this idea more. I want you to be able to use our fabrics and wallcoverings, with their colors, motifs, and textures that resonated so deeply for me, in a way that resonates with you and reflects what you want to feel. I want to give you what you need to create living landscapes—natural habitats that feed the soul and give us what we need to flourish.

Thank you, Rebecca