What we’re loving right now: This Fil-Am’s beautiful hand-painted designs
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Missing Filipino hand-painted art and looking for pieces that remind you of home? You’re in luck if you’re in Southwest Florida, where contemporary fine art and design home studio Marie Lourdes Boutique is located.
There, 41-year-old Filipina-American Marie Lourdes Lowy offers gorgeous prints that include the Filipiniana-inspired Filipino Culture Love collection that we’re loving right now.
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Marie Lourdes Boutique is a self-represented small business run by Lowy who’s a first generation Fil-Am transplant formerly based in New Jersey and New York City. “The beauty of nature is what inspires me. Creating art is my healing modality,” says Lowy. “What I take in and visually embrace turns into original, hand-drawn, and one of a kind painted pieces. Some [are] digitally illustrated and most [are] designed in various types of medium.”
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Lowy’s Filipino Culture Love collection features minimalist barong and Filipiniana designs hand-painted on textured paper or available as wood slice ornaments. Lowy’s signature nature-inspired details also adorn the pieces, making them bloom.
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Other collections available from the shop, which you can also check out online, are the Christmas in July botanical ornaments and Whimsical Botanicals paintings. Lowy also creates abstract expressionist mixed media pieces.
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We’ll be keeping an eye out for Marie Lourdes Boutique’s new offerings, which it teases will be out soon.
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