About Author & Illustrator Maci Welch
Maci Welch is an author, illustrator, and lover of all things creative. She has dreamed of writing and illustrating children’s books since grade school.
Her most recent work, The Grumble Bear, is a children's picture book inspired by silly conversations with her girls, and the ever persistent request for one more “night, night story.” Her other written works include Maggie Morris, her debut novel inspired by her childhood friendships and experiences.
She resides in Wyoming with her husband, two daughters, and black Lab, Archer Boy.
There’s a spirituality to the West that’s hard to explain until you’ve stood beneath those enormous skies and felt the silence around you.
I’ve been missing that feeling—the space, the stillness, the sense of something ancient and bigger than myself. Painting this was my way of finding my way back. 🤎
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I’ve been missing the West lately. The wide-open spaces. The red rock. The enormous skies that make you feel very small and very connected at the same time.
There’s something spiritual about a Western landscape—the kind of quiet that makes you stop, breathe, and remember that there are things much bigger than whatever is weighing on you.
Painting this was cathartic. It felt less like creating a landscape and more like finding my way back to a place I love. And maybe that’s one of the reasons I believe so deeply in art: sometimes making something is a way of healing something.
This one holds a little bit of that longing for me. A reminder that you can carry a place with you, even when you’re far away from it. 🤎
If you’re new here, follow along—I’m sharing more paintings, the stories behind them, and the process of making them.
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A little Southwest, a lot of atmosphere. 🌵🎨
Help me grow my account and make it one step closer to my dream!
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Help me make it to 1k! I want to grow my community and it would mean so much for you to be a part of it!
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Okay so I made a new game!! What do you think? Would you play it?
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