placenta paintings
Custom placenta watercolors to
honor your full experience
As humans, both creativity + ritual are core to making meaning of big moments. They help us integrate, process, + honor, whether it is grief, joy, or most often a muddied swirl.
This is how I view my custom placenta paintings: an offering to hold deep, mindful space for the fullness of your own story. This connection enables unique creativity to emerge which serves to commemorate and re-imagine your placenta in healing ways.
This might mean your painting is infused with big moments in your life prior to pregnancy, all that it required to bring this baby into existence, or the intensity of your labor + birth itself.
Each painting honors the magical, crucial, + fleeting work done by your placenta + you. I paint recently postpartum placentas, placentas from decades ago, placentas associated with loss or life, or perhaps your very own birth.
Placentas are magic
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Placentas are magic 〰️
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how we collaborate
Get in touch to begin. I will share more about the process + initiate a connection to learn more about you + your story over email, phone, or video.
I hold space for your story with loving care + attention. I meditate + reflect deeply over many weeks, channeling your story into the unique colors, shapes, + form of your painting.
Our interchange plus your painting offer a powerful + unique witnessing. The intention is that you are seen, held, + whole. Paintings are typically 12 x 16” 100% heavy cotton paper with mixed media, but can vary by request. A commissioned painting ranges from $400-$650.
Origin story
I started painting placentas after the birth of my son, as an effort to reconcile with my own placenta. At 36 weeks, it was quickly shutting down due to HELLP Syndrome, requiring an urgent, pre-term delivery.
As I healed + my son grew, I reflected on the work my placenta had done to bring him safely to me earthside + yet the danger it had put us both in.
Watercolor painting became an emergent + therapeutic way of reconciling that while enabling me to honor my experience in its vast + beautiful complexity.
Read more of my writing on pregnancy + postpartum.
View full gallery of placenta paintings.
"Portal, portal, portal," watercolor + breastmilk (2023).
The Amazing Placenta
The placenta is a magical, mysterious, + ephemeral organ — the only one humans can grow, discard, + grow again. It exists only temporarily, developing soon after conception.
During that time it plays the crucial role of several organs, providing complete nourishment + protection for a growing pregnancy.
We all have one (or more), whether we ourselves were tethered to it in utero, or we grew it inside our womb during a pregnancy (that resulted in a live birth or not).
Each placenta is totally unique; It never existed before + never will again. Your placenta is a fractal representation of your unique, complex human experience.