Between Brushstrokes
Welcome to Between Brushstrokes.
This is where I share the thinking, the dreaming and the real stuff that happens in between creating. There is no perfectly curated version of creative life here - just me being honest about this journey.
I am self-taught, I paint from the heart, and I believe art should feel accessible to everyone - whether you know your chiaroscuro from your impasto or you just know what you love.
Pull up a chair, I’m glad you’re here.
X Bri
Art as an Investment
When people hear "art as an investment", they picture auction houses and price tags. But the real return on art is something else entirely. Here's why every piece in our home was chosen to say who we are, and why you don't need a big budget to start a collection.
Right piece, wrong room
Someone falls in love with a piece, it's within budget, and they walk away because they can't picture where it would go. Here's why you should buy the art and find the space afterwards, plus six easy ways to make a "wrong room" piece work.
Making a house, your home
You can buy the same sofa and the same cushions as thousands of other people. But a handmade piece, even a small one tucked onto a shelf, places your fingerprint on a space. Here's why art has become our love language, and how it turns a house into a home.
Art drops for Christmas!
I'm the worst gift buyer - so I made something better instead. Weekly hand-painted art drops, every Thursday from October, starting small.
Wild Walls - my botanical obsession
Everyone becomes a creative director once your work goes public. Here’s why I’ve stopped taking notes - and gone all in on the subject that I’ll never run out of.
Briar LOVES Blooms 4ever - Our origin story
"I've been thinking lately about where it all began.
Not the painting - I mean the obsession. The deep, cellular, can't-explain-it L O V E of flowers and botanical things that runs through everything I make and everything I am.
I keep coming back to the same place. A blessed childhood."
Why are you holding back?
"I was mid-painting the other night and this thought just dropped into my head out of nowhere — Why are you holding back? And honestly? It stopped me in my tracks. Because it's not the first time I've heard that."
The perils and payoff of the last 10%
"The last 10% of a painting is where it either becomes extraordinary - or where you completely blow it. I've done both. Here's what I've learned, including the time I painted a random person into a perfectly good painting and then had to pretend it was intentional."
Two Shops, zero regrets
"I needed to give myself permission to play — without it affecting my serious work. When everything lived together, my playful experiments felt like they were undermining the fine art. Neither could breathe properly."
Coming back
"I had to practice giving myself grace. And I'll be honest — I wasn't very good at it. It's a lot easier to say be kind to yourself than to actually do it when you're exhausted, stretched thin and quietly mourning a part of yourself you've had to put on hold."