Studio Weather Mentorship
One-on-one mentorship for visual artists seeking greater clarity, direction, and connection to their creative practice.
What is Studio Weather Mentorship?
Sometimes the challenge isn't making the work.
It's understanding it.
You may have a studio full of paintings, photographs, sculptures, or mixed media pieces and still find yourself asking:
Where is this work going?
What am I really exploring?
Why do I keep returning to the same things?
How do I know which ideas are worth following?
How do I trust my intuition more?
How do I move through creative uncertainty without constantly questioning myself or starting over?
How does a collection of individual pieces begin to become a body of work?
These are the kinds of questions Studio Weather Mentorship was created to explore.
Studio Weather Mentorship is a three-month, one-on-one experience for visual artists who want to deepen their work, better understand their creative process, and develop greater trust in their own artistic direction.
This is a collaborative process, but it is not a predetermined curriculum. I don't believe every artist needs the same exercises, answers, or path forward.
Instead, we pay close attention to what is already happening within your work—your instincts, repetitions, questions, frustrations, curiosities, and the things you can't seem to stop returning to.
The goal isn't to teach you to make work like mine.
It's to help you better understand how you make work—and become more fully the artist you already are.
The Studio Weather Framework
Every artist arrives with different questions, challenges, and experiences. Our work together will be specific to you.
But the mentorship is guided by four interconnected areas of exploration.
They aren't steps to complete or a formula to follow. We may move back and forth between them throughout our time together as your work evolves.
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We begin by looking honestly at your current creative weather.
What feels alive in the work? What feels uncertain? Where are you growing? Where are you questioning yourself? What expectations might you be carrying about what your work should be?
Before deciding where the work needs to go, we first understand where you are.
Practice: Looking honestly.
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Artists leave clues throughout their work.
Certain colors, marks, materials, subjects, memories, questions, forms, and ways of working have a tendency to return. Rather than dismissing those repetitions or assuming you've outgrown them, we become curious about why they continue to matter.
Together we'll look for the threads running through your work and begin recognizing the visual and conceptual language that may already be developing.
Practice: Noticing.
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There is no single right way to make art.
We'll explore your individual creative process: where instinct enters, where doubt appears, what helps you experiment freely, what causes you to become overly controlled, and how you respond when you don't know what comes next.
A central part of this is learning when to act—and when to pause.
Pausing, looking, questioning, waiting, and allowing something to remain unresolved can be as important to the creative process as making another mark.
Practices: Experimenting, pausing, and trusting.
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Rather than beginning with a predetermined destination, we pay attention to what begins emerging through the process.
What is asking for more attention?
What feels increasingly alive?
What deserves deeper exploration?
This might lead us into questions of visual language, material, scale, subject, abstraction, series development, emotional content, or conceptual depth.
The goal isn't to leave mentorship knowing exactly what every future painting should look like.
It's to become better equipped to recognize and follow your own evolving direction.
Practice: Following.
Who Is This Mentorship For?
Studio Weather Mentorship is designed primarily for emerging and mid-career visual artists who already have an active creative practice and want to engage more deeply with their work.
You may be:
Feeling creatively stuck or uncertain about what comes next
Developing or questioning a body of work
Trying to understand your emerging visual language
Navigating a period of artistic transition
Struggling to trust your creative decisions
Finding yourself repeatedly overworking, second-guessing, or abandoning work
Looking for thoughtful critique and honest conversation
Wanting to better understand the ideas and patterns running through your work
Seeking a more intentional and sustainable relationship with your practice
Whether you are a painter, photographer, ceramic artist, fiber artist, mixed-media artist, or work across disciplines, the focus isn't on teaching a particular medium.
The focus is on helping you develop a deeper relationship with your own work and process.
What We’ll Do Together
Our conversations begin with the work itself.
We'll look closely at what you're making, talk about what is happening in the studio, ask questions, identify patterns, experiment, and follow what emerges.
Thoughtful critique and discussion of current work
Conversations about process, composition, materials, and visual language
Identifying recurring patterns, themes, questions, and influences
Exploring the relationship between intuition and intention
Exercises and experiments created specifically for your practice
Learning to work with uncertainty and the messy middle
Developing practices for pausing, looking, and making more intentional decisions
Exploring the development of a body of work
Conversations about artist statements, portfolios, pricing, exhibitions, submissions, and professional practice when relevant
Some of the most meaningful discoveries in an artist's practice happen unexpectedly. I intentionally leave room for surprise, experimentation, and for our conversations to change as the work changes.
THE MENTORSHIP EXPERIENCE
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Before We Begin: A Studio Weather Reflection
Before our first meeting, you'll complete a thoughtful reflection about your work, creative process, questions, influences, and where you currently find yourself in your practice.
You'll also share a selection of work with me—not necessarily only the pieces you consider your "best."
This allows me to spend time with your work before we meet and begin noticing some of the patterns and questions we may want to explore together.
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Three 90-Minute Sessions
Over the course of three months, we'll meet one-on-one for three 90-minute sessions.
Each conversation builds upon what has happened in your studio since the last. We'll look at the work, talk about discoveries and frustrations, identify what seems important, and determine a focused set of questions or experiments to carry back into the studio.
Sessions are available virtually, allowing me to work with artists regardless of location.
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Support Between Sessions
Mentorship doesn't stop when our meeting ends.
Between sessions, you're welcome to share progress images, questions, challenges, reflections, and discoveries through email or WhatsApp.
At times I'll offer feedback. At others I may send a question, exercise, artist recommendation, reading, or simply encourage you to spend more time with something before deciding what it means.
The goal isn't for you to become dependent on my answers.
Over time, I want to help you become better at recognizing and trusting your own.
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Your Studio Weather Roadmap
At the conclusion of our three months together, you'll receive a personalized Studio Weather Roadmap reflecting what we've discovered about your practice.
Rather than a generic list of strengths and weaknesses, the Roadmap looks at the larger landscape of your work, including:
Your current creative weather
Recurring patterns and threads
Creative instincts and strengths
Areas of friction
Your emerging visual language
What seems to be asking for further attention
Studio practices and experiments worth continuing
Questions to carry forward
Possibilities for where the work may lead next
The Roadmap isn't intended to prescribe what you should make.
It's something you can return to as your practice continues to evolve.
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Follow-Up Session
Approximately one month after the mentorship concludes, we'll reconnect for a complimentary 30-minute conversation.
We'll look at what has happened since our final session, what you've continued to explore, and any new questions that have emerged as you've begun navigating the studio independently again.
Ready to begin?
$850 for the three-month mentorship
Payment plans available
New to working with me? Many artists begin with a Studio Session before applying for Studio Weather Mentorship, though it is not required.
A Note About Mentorship
This is not a painting lesson.
It is not business coaching.
And it is not a formula for finding your "signature style" or achieving creative success.
I don't believe another artist can hand you your artistic voice.
But I do believe someone can help you learn how to listen for it.
For more than twenty years, I have built my own studio practice through uncertainty, experimentation, transition, failure, discovery, reinvention, and growth. One of the most important things I've learned is that artistic direction rarely arrives as certainty.
More often, it reveals itself slowly—through repetition, curiosity, instinct, attention, and the willingness to stay with questions long enough for something unexpected to emerge.
Studio Weather Mentorship is a space to do that work with someone beside you.
Not to tell you where your work should go.
But to help you become more attentive to where it is already leading.