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Spring 2025 - Four of my paintings are in the exhibit “Good Works” at Studio Montclair in Montclair NJ. This exhibit is showing work by the volunteers of Studio Montclair. That includes me! A surprise is the local newspaper did a write up of the show and use one of my paintings as the image. How cool is that!

Winter 2025 - This season I have had a hard time motivating to be creative. Sometimes I feel like there are a million subjects to paint and other times I have no idea what to paint. I decided to go back to sea kelp. I explored this subject a few years ago for a table runner. Now it’s time to create a painting or two. I will also explore coral. All things underwater minus fish!

Fall 2024 - Every November I hold a “open studio on the patio” event at my home. This year Timmothy found the fourth! One of my collectors (orrahter a great supporter) purchased a fourth painting from me to complete his set. He has a wall in his home that is screaming for art and apparently large enough to house four paintings. Luckly me!! Lupines were the final purchase to round out the set. I can’t wait to see these four framed and hung up.

Summer 2024 - A BIG deal for me was to be found by a local family to have my artwrok used in their home while the renovation was being filmed for This Old House, the TV show. Yup! Browsing the interntet for local artists worked and I was found. This multi generational family did a full renovation of their 100 yr old home to all move in and age in place. This Old House filmed the process and my paintings were used for the final staging. Amazing!

Spring 2024 - I launched a new table runner design of cherry blossoms. Using two background colors, sage and amethyest. This idea was prompted by signing up for a Cherry Blossom festival as a vendor. One should have a cherry blossom pattern if in a cherry blossom festival!

Winter 2024 - Sold! My first Autumn Hydrangea painting sale. I did a series of four of these and love them so much. It took a while to find someone else who loved them just as much to buy one. Well, it was a big moment as I sold the biggest painting I have ever painted! 29”x22” in size and it looks great framed. Enjoy Ana & Paul!

Fall 2023 - I attended the Morristown NJ artisant market for the first time. Three days of being surrounded by great makers. It was hard to not spend all the money I made. Newest painting on view was my Aspen trees in autumn. Inspired by my trip to Colorado. Golden yellow as far as the eye can see!

Summer 2023 - Prince Edward Island summer vacation. I was in awe of the rock formations at the coast line. Amazing! Feeling very inspired.

Spring 2023 - Having fond memories of my trip to Costa Rica, I decided to paint more of that subject matter. I sold two paintings from that series already and I miss them! So time to paint them again, but different. I treated myself to new watercolor paints in blue hues. My favorite.

Winter 2023 - Due to my “office gig” I was invited to visit a Frank Lloyd house in Michigan. The Meyer May House. What a treat! Not only did we tour the home, we had cocktails and a lovely sit down dinner in the home and using the Frank Lloyd Wright furniture. It was like being in a museum set. The wallpaper really caught my eye!

Fall 2022 - I attended my first three day artisan market at Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown NY. This was a good experience, I learned a lot, the weather was perfect and the crowd was friendly. My tote bags were launched here and they were a big hit. The Lotus Seed Pod was the fan favorite!

Summer 2022 - After creating my seed pod designs I decided they need to be on products too. These designs are now offered on table runners and tote bags. Yay! This is my first time offering tote bags and I am very pleased with the outcome. My fans seem to like them too. Milkweed Seed Pod in blue and Lotus Seed Pod in multi hue.

Spring 2022 Take 2!- My collaboration with Home to Harbour was launched! Four table runner designs for their web based, home decor store. Two fan favorite designs reinvented and two new designs inspired by the coastal lifestyle. Personally I am loving the sea kelp design!

Spring 2022 - Excited to launch my new pattern designs inspired by seed pods! It is so rewarding to see the final outcome after months of creation. Let’s hope others love them too! Wallpaper and table runners now have my seed pod designs on them.

Winter 2022 - I kept very busy developing a new line of patterns based on seed pods. Working in a more neutral pallet and seeing how I can abstract the shape of the seed. A line of patterns and table runners will be developed from these next. What else is there to do during the winter in the North East!

Fall 2021 - My third annual open studio at my home on the patio. A big success! It’s great to interact with my followers, admirers, clients and friends. People find it much easier to purchase a painting in person, it’s so personal that one must see the art to fall in love with it.

Summer 2021 - I kept busy with several painting commissions, mostly of florals. Lots of fun!

Winter 2021 - After a year of the pandemic, I needed to find new inspiration and a way to stay motivated. I spent a month in Florida and focused 100% on creating new patterns for my portfolio. Hours of painting and photoshop work paid off. My newest lines of gingko leaf and lotus flower patterns are a success. Now time to get the world to see them!

December 2020 - Ending the year with another wallpaper commission. I enjoy making patterns and seeing a happy client. The request was for a neutral and calm bamboo leaves pattern. Success! The manufacturer in NJ provided another great product and the installation looks great.

Summer 2020 - Expanding on my scarf designs I focused on table runners as people were asking for table top décor. Once I found a manufacturer in the USA, I dived in and ordered samples. The outcome is great and the the response from my following was supportive. These will be my focus for selling wholesale in the coming months.

February 2020 - I was fortunate to visit Costa Rica in late February 2020 and return just before my state had to Shelter in Place due to the Covid 19 virus. After wrapping my head around what was occurring in the world, I decided to get busy painting. Inspired by the trees in Costa Rica, when looking up at the canopy which seems likes miles high. Broccoli trees I was told they are called as they look like broccoli heads. Well, I love them and created a mini series of tree canopy paintings.

January 2020 - My first wallpaper design commission! This was very excising for me. The client gave me full design direction of using the color blue and creating a modern toile pattern. Otherwise I had full design control. Knowing the client is from Ohio, and has only lived in NJ for a handful of years, I used Ohio as inspiration. The design is made up of the Ohio state, tree, flower and insect. I had the wallpaper made at a manufacture in NJ and it was installed successfully.

Sept 2019 - This summer flew by and I was moving like lightening! One exciting event that I want to share is the painting workshop I attended in Southern France during late summer 2019. The goal was to expand my skills and learn new techniques, also to get me to think outside of my box (and it’s a strong box!). I had great success and the one skill I am applying currently is using pastels with my watercolor paintings. Also, trying to think outside of my box!

Fall 2018 - Visiting Cambodia, Laos & Thailand. I took three weeks off from life and experienced a great adventure in South East Asia. This trip opened my heart, my eyes and my mind. Their crafts are beautiful and the use textiles in Temples creates a museum environment. There were sculptors, potters, umbrella makers, weavers, batik stamping and re purposing of vintage garments. I gathered so many ideas that my head is spinning! Now to figure out how to implement the inspiration and create paintings and patterns from my travels.

Summer 2018 - This season has been fun as I launched my Instagram site. Another milestone completed! Follow me @Charlottenicoledesigns. I'll post my art inspirations, progress on paintings, finished work, scarves and new products. It will be fun!

Spring 2018 - The last quarter of 2017 I found myself designing a line of scarves titled "The Four Seasons". The public debut of these was at an artisan market in early December 2017. I had a successful artisan market and continue to sell the scarves. This was my first attempt at producing my own product with my designs, and I am very pleased with the results. Success!  Spring 2018 has been busy with promoting my scarf line. You can find my scarves on my Etsy store and I am in negotiations with a catalog/web store to sell my scarves in a modal fabric. Yah for progress!  Check out: CharlotteNicoleArt on Etsy and favorite my page or share with others.

Late Winter 2017 - I have not traveled to find new inspiration these past few month. Rather I have looked inward and allowed myself to focus on the projects that have been piling up in my work area. I brought my memories back to summer, on my bike rides on the dirt rail trails. The sunlight that comes through the tree leaves and creates shadows on the path are beautiful to me. I created two watercolor paintings based on these photos, you can see them in my Watercolors of Nature tab. 

Surtex 2017 - I participated as an exhibitor at Surtex held at Jacob Javits Center in NYC during the spring. This was my first time at Surtex and the experience was life changing for my art career. I was thrilled with the varied interest my work attracted. From packaging, to cards, to luggage. Athletic wear and dinnerware as well as flooring were also topics of conversation. And the painting that stole the show, was my blue leaves based on the photo I show in my Late Winter blurb below! 

Fall 2016 - During my trip to Chile I visited the Patagonia region, wine region and a coastal town. The use of color in South America is fantastic! Patagonia is a natural wonderland, where mother nature definitely showed off her talent. The dusty roads and open landscape in wine region were calming. Valpariso on the coast showed me that color is not something to be scared of. Embrace color!