Postcard Paintings

Breaking Waves, 2018

I created a few more postcard paintings that year, but I didn’t dedicate all my energy to the series at first. After a few years exploring different creative mediums, from filmmaking to creative writing, my thoughts kept wandering back to the “cool postcard paintings” I had inadvertently created that one night. In 2022, I decided to return to my art practice with a renewed focus and opened my studio at Aston Mills Arts. Since then, I’ve created over 40 postcard paintings including individual collections and commissions — each breathing life into a vintage postcard and transforming it into a new work of art.

Craftswoman Art Show, 2018

I like to say that each postcard painting is both an act of artistic expression and historic preservation. My goal with this series is to celebrate vintage postcards from the early 19th century while highlighting the correspondence practices of the past. I do my best not to tamper with the cards in each piece, many of which are more than 100 years old, and create a work of art that will last as long as the antique card itself. Each postcard painting is a 9x12” acrylic landscape painting featuring a repurposed vintage postcard on mixed media stock paper under glass and encased in a custom-made 11 x 14” wood frame.