FEELING PRIVILEGED: "ONE DREAMY JOB"

When Stephanie Myddelton, a local, highly-talented abstract artist and her partner Susan stopped-by our studio to see - and, thankfully, to purchase - the walnut, glass-topped coffee table displayed in the window, Matthew immediately knew that he liked them, he just didn’t know how much, until a few weeks later when he was invited into their home. They had invited him there to see the space which they had envisioned holding a wall-mounted shelving unit, one that would compliment both the new coffee table and the soon-to-be end table they had already ordered to match. The very moment that he entered their charming, 1886 Victorian heritage-home, newly-restored and quite nicely doubling as Stephanie’s gallery, he was enamored by her artwork; in fact, charmed to the point that he had completely missed his own handiwork, sitting right at his own feet.

Stephanie paints in vivid colors, preferring massive canvases, which are truly dwarfed by the enormity of the beauty that she portrays upon them. The above is a mixed media piece - paint, wax and plaster, on canvas - measuring eight feet in height by four feet in width. Her work, put simply, is breathtaking. So it isn’t difficult to see how Matthew could have neglected to notice the coffee table that he himself had made, the very one he now enjoys knowing shares space with such magnificence -- nor difficult to see how her artwork made its way into Matthew’s dream.

We have ever since encouraged viewings of Stephanie’s available works, but it is her custom work that we want to here dote upon. Stephanie works closely with each of her, genuinely fortunate clients to produce the perfect piece to compliment their individual décor, bringing colour and form to spaces that truly “inspire, rejuvenate and ground”. She refers to her commissioned work as co-creation, saying that for her art is both “a passion and a destiny”; that she paints to “fulfill an intention”. We - in complete agreement - are thankful to think that fate has brought us the good fortune of being chosen by such an artist, to fulfill an intention, and are left feeling privileged to be a small-part of something so special, in such a special space, Susan and Stephanie's home.

It's a century-old abode with character, including its original hardwood floor, which posed a small challenge for their newly-commissioned, four-legged end table. One of the four legs had to be made ½” shorter than the others - the leg in the rear of the table, nearest the wall - for the table to stand level. Matthew also provided Stephanie and Susan an assortment of varying sized, doweled shims, which can be added to the bottom of the shortened leg if they ever desire to move the table to another spot in the room with a different disposition. Our hope is that no matter where the table stands, it along with its counterparts continue to give Stephanie and Susan even a fraction of the joy that we both experience when in the presence of the artwork that adorns their walls. "Our Thanks."

For more information on Stephanie’s work, contact her at 416-423-8886