The Artist
From flipping furniture to painting the walls behind it.
Courtney's craft didn't start on an 8-foot canvas. It started with a screwdriver, a sander, and other people's cast-off furniture — restoring worn wood pieces and reimagining them with hand-painted florals, fresh hardware, and finishes built to be lived with, not just looked at. That furniture practice built something a fine art career doesn't usually start with: a real following of people who already trust her hand, her eye for proportion, and her follow-through on a finished piece.
The move into large-scale original painting is a continuation of the same instinct — take something in need of attention (a bare foyer wall instead of a tired dresser) and give it a considered, hand-built presence. The technical discipline is the same too: durable construction, a finish that holds up, and an eye trained by hundreds of hours of hands-on restoration work before the first brushstroke of gold ever touched a canvas.
Proof of Craftsmanship
A decade of restoration, one piece at a time
A selection of restored and reimagined furniture pieces — the body of work that built Courtney's local following before the first large-scale painting left the studio.
A Technical Note, for the Trade
Canvas-mounted ACM: built for scale, built to last
Every large-format piece is built on a canvas-mounted aluminum composite (ACM) panel rather than traditional stretcher bars. At 8 feet across, that distinction matters: the panel won't warp, sag, or shift with humidity the way a stretched canvas can over time, and the painted canvas wraps continuously around the panel edge for a clean, gallery-wrap finish with no frame required. It's a construction choice interior designers and builders notice — a piece meant to hang flat and true for decades in a two-storey foyer, not just look good on delivery day.