The Little Studio in the Woods

I didn’t intend to make a career of paint­ing fur­ni­ture, but as SERENDIPITY would have it, I just fell into it and ended up lov­ing it. I was asked to paint a chair as a fundraiser and found that it was way too fun to stop there. The rest is his­tory. Now friends bring me old fur­ni­ture from garage sales, etc, or I stum­ble upon some­thing with great pos­si­bil­i­ties just cry­ing out to be “re-purposed.” My favorite pieces to paint are child-sized, but I also have a fond­ness for really rough primitives.

I usu­ally begin with a rough plan for a color scheme, but that often changes…Hence the name “Serendip­ity Designs.” As for my style, I haven’t the fog­gi­est way to describe it except “eclec­tic.” I range from a mod­i­fied folk art to tra­di­tional rather coun­try to funky gar­den style. I guess it depends on the piece itself or maybe the day.

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		ABC chair
ABC chair back