ARTIST DESIGN&LIVING
A Simple House Portrait Though it would be some time before Stanley felt that she could identify as an artist, she slowly started sharing her experiments on social media. "I always thought, 'There are so many people who are so much better than me,'" Stanley explained. One of her friends then asked for a painting. "I didn't know what she wanted, but I knew she loved her house," Stanley said. That is what inspired her to begin painting house portraits. Since then, Stanley created an Etsy shop through which she has been commissioned to paint many house
portraits. Though she likes to paint pastoral farms, it is hard for her to pick a favorite house portrait because each one has sentimental value. "Hardly anyone has a house portrait painted for no reason. There's always some sort of a story to it. Some are kind of sad, some are happy. Other people just have a lot of pride in their home. I've done businesses. I've done a hotel in New York. I've done churches where people have gotten married. There have been some where it's, 'My grandparents built this house, this is the house I grew up in, this is our first house or this is the house we had our kids in.' There are so many things that make each house portrait special," Stanley said.
Stanley always sends customers the original copy of their house portrait and takes a photo of it to keep for herself.
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