Why I Don’t Make Prints anymore— and What I Offer Instead

There’s a reason I don’t make prints.

And it has nothing to do with scarcity or business strategy.

It’s about presence.

About energy.

About the exact moment something becomes real.

When I make a painting—whether it’s a large-scale masterwork or a tiny Field Note—it isn’t just a composition. It’s a physical record of inspiration made visible. The leaf tears, the decisions, the layering, the glint of light that moves as you do. You can’t reproduce that. Not really. Not in the way that matters.

So no, I don’t make prints.

But I do make something else.

What Original Art Carries

Original work holds a kind of frequency. You feel it when you stand in front of it. It’s not just visual—it’s vibrational. You’re looking at a piece of someone’s clarity, their devotion, their lived moment of sureness. And when it is in resonance with you, you are moved by it.

Prints can show you the image.

But they can’t carry the full imprint of the making.

That’s why I choose to offer only originals. Even the smallest ones. Especially the smallest ones.

Because the people who are drawn to my work aren’t just looking for something to fill a wall. They’re looking for something to live with. Something to resonate with. These pieces in particular are meant to be seen with light, because of the reflective quality of the leaf. A print would defeat the purpose of the work.

The Integrity of Small Works

Small works are love notes from the artist, and a 6-inch piece can hold the same transmission as a 6-foot canvas—if it was made from love and in flow.

The Collector’s Circle was created as a way to share these small, resonant originals. Not just as an entry-level product. But as a private channel for those who want to be close to the work and the rhythm it’s born from.

They are fully realized, luminous works made with the same care and clarity as anything I create.

I call them Field Notes—studies, glimpses, elemental moments.

Some are master studies, some are floral abstractions

All are made with metal leaf, and mixed media (sometimes torn paper, sometime mother of pearl, sometimes oil paint) and all carry that frequency.

What I Offer Instead

If you’re someone who feels that pull—toward beauty, toward resonance, toward originality—I made this for you.

The Collector’s Circle is a private membership where I share my smallest works, short studio reflections (Page Notes), and early access to new collections. It’s not a subscription. It’s not a print shop. It’s a relationship.

A way of living with the work, not just looking at it.

A way to collect from the heart, not the algorithm.

✦ Want to be part of it?

Enrollment in The Collector’s Circle opens August 1st, with the first art release coming in September. Join the Collector’s Circle waitlist to make sure you get in!

Founding members receive a hand-cut piece of my palette paper—a physical artifact of the studio, as a welcome gift.