From the Studio
Studio Notes
Letters from Isabela, Puerto Rico -- what is on the easel, which wall is going up next, and the work in progress that never makes it to a gallery.
Most of what happens in a studio never gets seen. The sketch that came before the painting. The wall at hour three, when it still looks like a mistake. The color that got mixed four times before it was right.
Studio Notes is where that part goes -- written from the kitchen table in Isabela, between murals, with the work as it actually happens.
Three ways in
Read the letter
Free
The letter arrives when there is real work to show: a wall in progress, a new piece off the easel, what the island is doing to the palette this month. Nothing sent for the sake of sending.
- The letter itself. Written from the studio, not scheduled by a calendar.
- New work as it lands. Finished pieces and the wall going up next.
Become a Patron
$12 a month, or $120 a year
For the people who want the whole process -- and who want the work to keep happening.
- The full mural, start to finish. Every wall is filmed. Patrons get the complete session -- the timelapse, the close-ups, the stills -- including the parts that never make the final video.
- The archive. Every letter, every process reel, every study. It grows every month you stay.
- First look at new work. Originals and small collections go to patrons before they are listed publicly. When a piece is one of one, the order matters.
- A direct line. Reply to any letter. Courtney reads them.
Founding Patron
$500 a year. Twenty-five people.
Patronage in the old sense: you make the year’s work possible, and you own a piece of it.
- Everything a Patron gets.
- A signed, numbered print. Archival, shipped to you, chosen from the year’s work. Yours to keep whether you stay or not.
- An invitation to the first show. When the studio opens its doors for a proper exhibit, founding patrons are on the list by name.
Twenty-five is not a marketing number. It is how many prints can be signed, packed, and shipped by one person who also has walls to paint.
Become a founding patron“I paint what I see when I step outside -- the hibiscus on the fence, the octopus in the reef, the flamboyan trees lit up like fire against the sky. Puerto Rico is my studio and the ocean is my palette.”
-- Courtney Edwards
It starts in Isabela
Read the letter for free. Become a patron and get the whole process. Or take one of the twenty-five founding places and get a piece of the year on your wall.
Or see the portfolio first