French Fresco Collection is live!

I am so excited to finally share my French Fresco Collection! In it you’ll find original watercolors, prints, notecards and gift tags, all inspired by the French Riviera.

I created these illustrations during my recent three-week stay in Villefranche-Sur-Mer, near Nice. I spent my days visiting places like the famous Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild in Cap Ferret (HERE) and the Prince’s Palace in Monaco, home to Princess Grace (HERE). I snapped endless photos of the beautiful frescoes on the walls and doors. And then, in the evenings, back at my apartment in Villefranche-Sur-Mer, I stayed up late watercoloring what I’d seen. It dawned on me how beautiful they’d be as stationery and prints. And my French Fresco Collection was born!

The French Fresco Collection includes six motifs. Each is available on notecards, prints (5×7″, 8×10″ and 11×14″) and gift tags!

You can browse the entire collection and shop the originals on my web site HERE! In the meantime, I’ve gathered a few shots of the inspiration behind these pieces as well as the works in-progress below!

These two frescoes (above and below)) are located in the Blue Bedroom in the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, the villa’s most elaborate guest bedroom. The Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild is an Italian Renaissance-style home that was built for the Baroness Beatrice de Rothschild between 1905 and 1912.

Beatrice’s bedroom (below) is furnished with a Venetian bed covered with Chinese silk embroidered with various flower and bird motifs that complement this beautiful swan fresco on a nearby door panel.

I loved these two frescoes in the villa (below) and decided to paint them after I returned to Dallas! The blue hue is so beautiful and they remind me of intaglios.

I came across this fresco (below) at the Prince’s Palace of Monaco. There are many more beautiful frescoes in the palace and I can’t wait to watercolor them all as I continue adding to my French Fresco Collection. The palace is currently undergoing major restorations of its original frescoes, one of the biggest fresco restoration projects in European history.