WEST – West Austin Studio Tour

Oliver was selected to participate in the first-ever West Austin Studio Tour (aka WEST). There has been a celebrated East Austin Studio tour for ten years (tons of artists have studios on Austin's east side), so it was exciting to find out artists working on the west side would get a little shine this year. Oliver was in the process of converting our garage into a studio when he learned about the tour, so the timing was perfect. He applied, he was accepted, he got to work to make some new art!

The "tours" are free and self-guided; the Friends of WEST published a beautiful catalog with all artists listed and created a handy website to make figuring out which studios to visit easy-peasy.

So, on May 19th and 20th, Oliver opened our recently converted garage-studio to the public! We had cold drinks on hand to entice visitors and keep them thirst-free:

We created seating for visitors, complete with maps: 

And let's not neglect the art!

Since there were lulls between visitors at times, Oliver left some works in progress out, so he could work on them during the slow times: 

A full-studio shot with visitor/friend/awesome musician, John:

And there you have it! I'll keep you posted on next year's art adventure! xoxo

My work! In House Beautiful!!

Hi friends! Many of you know I worked at Fawn Galli Interiors for a year prior to making our move to Austin. I did general designer-y and project manager-y tasks for various projects and oversaw a few interns in addition to creating the lion's share of CAD and millwork drawings. The biggest (and most flamboyantly crazy and fun) project I worked on made the cover of House Beautiful this month and one of my very own designs was pictured in the story! I conceptualized and drew the cabinet in the image above, along with identical cabinets adjacent (not pictured) and a large built-in for the playroom, which didn't make it into the story. Unfortunately, we moved to Austin before the project was completed, but my little contributions were left in the highly capable hands of Fawn and her amazing senior designer, Ashley Moyer, who really got to flex her design muscles on this project. I know a lot went into executing the few initial designs I left behind, and Ashley handled all aspects of this multi-faceted project, as she does with so many. She is truly an inspiration to work with. Ashley is a do-er; an ambitious, talented, creative woman who exudes absolute grace under fire and handles clients with prowess and a huge dose of charm. I am lucky to have had the chance to work with her! Please check out the full story in print or the abridged version on the House Beautiful website!