Life's Too Short for Boring Colors.
The Short Version
I'm Clare — artist, grandmother of five, Southern California resident, and living proof that your best creative chapter can start at 70. I paint bold, expressive acrylics in a contemporary impressionist style. My grandkids call me Grammo. The name stuck. So did the paint.
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FULL ABOUT SECTION
I've been painting my whole life — with one long intermission.
Marriage, kids, all the beautiful chaos that comes with building a family: somewhere in there, the brushes went into a drawer and stayed there for a long time. Three grown kids later, post-divorce, I opened that drawer back up. What came out wasn't rust. It was relief.
Painting is my therapy, my joy, and honestly probably my way of avoiding thinking too hard about anything else. It works. Highly recommend.
These days I live in Southern California, which means I paint in good light year-round and complain about nothing. My heart, art-wise, lives in a few places at once: the rocky coastlines and soft summers of New England, the dramatic light of the California coast, and the occasional full-color explosion of Hawaii, Costa Rica, and Florida — wherever the color is loudest and the mood is warmest.
My style is contemporary impressionism, which is a fancy way of saying: bold color, loose brushwork, and a general refusal to be precious about it. I paint what moves me, in the colors that make me feel something, with more enthusiasm than restraint.
Speaking of grandkids — there are five of them, and they are the reason this shop exists. They started calling me Grammo as a joke and thought it was hysterical and somewhere along the way that became my name, my brand, and my entire personality (probably not healthy but here we are). I'm fine with this.
I make art because I can't not make it. Artists art. I hope something here finds its way to your walls and makes you happy every time you walk by it. And if it makes you laugh a little too — even better. That was probably the whole point.
— Clare (aka Grammo)
Southern California
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