Putting this as its own post because it deserves to be its own post.

If you want to be good at any kind of art you have to take the part of your brain that tells you “everything must be a wholly original idea formed in a perfect clean room environment” and you have to rip that synapse out of your skull, put it through a shredder, stomp on it, light it on fire, then pour it into acid, because it’s a liar and will never ever help you.

Studio, April 2024

Sending this babe up to Milwaukee for a show later in the summer! Hit me up if you’re nearby - details coming soon ✨

Hunt

The new Hurray for the Riff Raff album is exquisite

Carnival Season Madness

Hey y'all

if you ordered something from my shop in the past week or so (THank you!!!) I'm sorry it's been super delayed. I'm hoping to get things out this week.

Carnival season in New Orleans means not much is getting done!

What are we to do

Oil on panel, 12x9"

Ida Floreak 2024

Go send some love to our beloved onion painter

Shallots

Oil on canvas

witness, witness

Oil on board 9x12"

Ida Floreak 2024

seeing your post made me feel silly for not saying this sooner, but i've also had one of your art pieces as my phone background for ages!! the one titled 'Down from the mountain' specifically. your art makes me nostalgic and i adore all of it

Aw thank you!! That means so much to me.

That's one of those little paintings that I have a special fondness for. Thank you for sharing !

SOmetimes I will be having a rough time and full of doubts and then one of you SWEEETHEARTS will tag a piece with this

Thank you @sunbeetle

A view, a glimpse

Re: prev post - I've been wanting to write something that's almost exactly that for a while now.

Been thinking a lot about the little that we have available to us. Sometimes this line of thinking can start to feel like a scam, and I find myself getting frustrated - I want so badly to care for a little corner of the earth but without ownership I have no control. I can't prevent the landowners from mowing, from spraying, from paving. But I have to convince myself it's still worth trying.

This is an unfinished thought but I'll try to come back to it.

"There's no wildlife here. The land is barren and stripped from farming chemicals"

I just saw two blue herons fly super low over our house, which means they've been fishing in the creek behind us, which means there's fish there. Which means there's bugs to feed the fish and algae to feed the bugs, which means the water and soil is worth something damnit.

Yes, I'm sorry the suburb isn't the grand, sweeping swath of uninhabited land that you so desperately crave but would learn to loathe, but saying that the land here is barren and that there's no wildlife here and that there's nothing to salvage- that's a You problem. Nature might be struggling, but against all odds it is at least trying.

Another portal

Oil on wood 9x12"

Ida Floreak 2023

A portal

Oil on wood 9x12"

Ida Floreak 2024

Having a baby without childcare means getting to the studio before dawn to squeeze in a couple hours before my partner starts working.

It's beautiful and quiet but I'm so so tired