Artist by the sea
Sea Green
Psalm 139:9-10, Isaiah 43:19
Dreamscapes
Created in summer 2025. Watercolor and pencil on paper.
Transitional Work
Progress work, during focus on skill building. Rainy Season 2025 - Current
News: June 2026
May was like a cosmic washing machine. God, He picked it up like a snow globe and shook it.I deleted my news update and I replaced it with the letter below. I also made a Substack for my longer form writings, which I've been wanting to do.
Never Stop
A letter
I've been wrestling with something for a while now (years, if I am to be honest). With AI, the state of the creative field, the state of the world. I must preface this by saying I will never give up art making, and humans will never stop making art. But the whole thing has pretty much burned down and now it's a rise from the ashes type of scenario. Which life always does. The sprouts after a forest fire. Or it could be the end, but you pretty much need to operate the same way regardless, with hope. IP is dead. Everything has and will be scrapped. Pandora's box has been opened and there is no shutting it. Even if there was some mass compensation (highly unlikely), it's ruined in a fundamental way. The biggest studios, institutions, and most famous artists can't even fight against it. If you don't post your work online it's career suicide, and even if you manage to not, your customers or galleries will. Some galleries and jobs won't even accept you unless you have a social media following of a certain count. I've been browsing exclusive job postings for my field and a great majority of them want you to know how to use AI. Yes, we are in hell.
Now we don't only have the aforementioned issues, but we have artists accusing each other of AI (even when it's obviously not), but then you see people tracing AI and trying to claim AI as their own craft. People can even fake proof videos. I think AI art even won in some pretty big competitions. And maybe the skilled artists can tell but the general public cannot. Sometimes I don't even think the general public cares about AI vs human art, they don't understand the depth and the damage. Does this push us all to be live performance artists? More so than social media has already made us?
Additionally, after spending some time in online study groups, I see how far the ethics in general has fallen, the impact of wealth inequality and the disrespect of education. No one seems to respect the craft, history, or time outside other seasoned creatives or artists with an academic background. There is also this disturbing trend where realism and copying 1:1 is considered to be the most worthy art now, which is really ironic with rise of AI (this has really messed me up honestly, I've been in a battle of how much realism to put into my work and basing its value in the wrong way). Beyond art, people don't respect education in general anymore, and can you blame them? Look where getting good grades, a degree, and working hard led my generation.
One of these things is discouraging, but all together, it's pretty crushing. But, no one is coming to save you, you have to forge your own path through this disaster. They are more likely to come and hurt you (I haven't even touched on all the SA and harassment in the field). Then, if you thought creative work was competitive before... let's just say, I really worry for my fellow sensitives, (which a lot of artists tend to be).
After I lost my studio and all my work (an added personal disaster of profound magnitude), my plan was to do what I did before to get where I was, but better (since I am more skilled now than I was then), and I figured it would lead to better results. Well, the landscape totally changed and people are too vicious. There are still aspects of that path I am following, but I am forging my own now. A different direction than what I anticipated. It's been a lot to process.
I'm continuing with my mastery journey, I'm continuing with my faith work, I am continuing to show with the local art society and branch out from there, but now I have also found a way through all the muck. An escape while still contributing and being tethered to earth. A way to apply all of my art, illustration, design, and multimedia skills to serve the aina and the island with my husband, on our sustainable farm, unified by a mission of faith. The possibilities are expansive, it really is the dream. But it also is a lot of work, I am no stranger to that. I am also no stranger to nature, growing, or homesteading, it's one of my most knowledgeable areas next to art. So, if the collapse happens, I'm ready, and if we get through this, I'm ready.
I have upcoming shows in a few months and I think I just need to totally take the pressure off posting anything at all for a while. I want to continue this cloistered phase in peace while I go through this transition. I will return with the fruits of my labor. God bless and be safe out there, continue to make your way. A wise woman named Sophie said that the world is becoming less human, I believe she was right. A wise teacher named Rudy told me to never stop, I echo him for our age.
Selection of Studies
Late Summer 2025 - Current
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About the artist
Sea Green grew up in the Hudson River Valley of New York and attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn during the millennial hipster era. She received her BFA in illustration, was trained in digital and traditional mediums, printmaking, painting, and design. She won a Society of Illustrators Student award then began exhibiting her work and freelancing in NYC, nationally and internationally. She relocated to a tiny island in the Pacific Northwest right before the pandemic. There, she made a new body of work, taught local classes and workshops, volunteered and exhibited with the local art guild. In this time, she reconnected with nature and faith. As the world crumbled, she moved even further out into the ocean and is now self studying and working on mastery to take her work to new heights while showing and volunteering with the local Society of Artists, rebuilding her studio, and living life in paradise.You can contact Sea Green at [email protected]
At the End of the earth
A body of work made post-pandemic in 2020s about healing in nature. The medium is primarily acrylic and pencil on paper and wood. A few are pencil drawings with digital wash. Most of this work was destroyed by an evil person. Prints may or may not be able to be recovered.
Do not use artwork without permission. Resume, pricing, and more information about the art and artist are available upon request. No AI was or will be used in the production of this work.