🦋 Hi, I’m Marissa — a self-taught watercolor artist, hand furniture painter,  photographer, and long lost creative soul. I’ve wandered and lived throughout the Western United States with my family, and we have been in transition for the past year to find our new western Home.  

 

Over the years, I’ve been a teacher, a full-time mom, the owner of a handmade soap company, and a photographer.  

 

Now, at 50, I’m embracing life as a professional artist and illustrator.

 

For the past 15 years, my creative focus has centered around painting and drawing, in watercolor, and acrylic.   My style is playful and childlike—full of whimsical details, little lines, and inviting colors.

 

I’m always on the lookout for the tiny things, both inside and around us, that give us that deep, cozy sense of home.

 

My work tells gentle, magical stories about nature, cozy places, and the warmth of belonging. I paint homes, botanicals, birds, and a little imaginary land I call Tiny World—complete with its own travel agency.

 

I dream of creating children’s books, prints, stationery, fabric, illustrated maps—and especially puzzles. My work is personal, and created  solely by hand.

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I write a monthly newsletter with storybook postcard illustrations from my guide character Nigel, and a mini essays called "I Draw Home".​

​I would love to have you join my list.  Just sign up at the bottom of this page. 

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🌼 Welcome to my Tiny World