You Are A Beautiful Beginning

You Are A Beautiful BeginningInspired by this timeless adage, You Are a Beautiful Beginning combines lyrical storytelling and lovely art, blossoming into a celebration of self love, friendship, and community. With beautiful simplicity and hidden depth, this meditative and magical picture book encourages readers old and young to discover their own endless potential. Kelsey Garrity Riley's inviting, gently magical art pairs beautifully with a lyrical, deceptively simple text by

A small trick of engineering that reads as magic

her work seeks to marry the physical and emotional forms of her environment

flowers that bloom in the dark

Her work has been exhibited recently in exhibitions at Storefront Art Projects

A mini version of our best selling East West Onyx Ring

and waterways I encountered during travels over the past year

totemic imagery

as well as a few special materials including horsehair

transforming breakages into cherished features

In her own words: "This is a small collection of beaded landscape paintings floating in frames of polymer clay and wood

but it serves as one of the oldest natural adhesives

all of which seemed worlds away from her own bohemian upbringing