Art Meets Wine
When a Painting Becomes Something More
One of the things I love most about making art is the moment it leaves the studio and finds its way into someone's life. Usually that means a canvas on a wall. This time, it meant a wine label.
I partnered with Imagery Winery in Glen Ellen, California — a winery with a long history of commissioning original artwork for their labels — to create the label for their wine Wow Oui. The label features my abstract painting Cheers!, and I'll be honest: seeing it wrapped around a bottle for the first time was one of those genuinely surreal creative moments.
There's something about art showing up in everyday life — on a bottle you open at dinner, share with friends, or bring as a gift — that feels different from a painting on a wall. It moves. It travels. It ends up in moments you never planned for.
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Cheers!
The painting at the center of this collaboration is Cheers! — an abstract piece built around bold color, layered movement, and the kind of energy that comes with celebration.
Like a lot of my work, it started with color and feeling rather than a plan. There's warmth in it, a little chaos, and something that reads — at least to me — like the moment just before something good happens. Which, when you think about it, is exactly when you open a bottle of wine.
Seeing those same qualities translate onto a label felt right in a way that's hard to articulate. The painting didn't change. It just found a new context.
What It Felt Like to See Cheers! on a Bottle
The honest answer is: better than I expected, which is saying something because I had high expectations.
There's a process of translation that happens when artwork moves from canvas to print — colors shift slightly, scale changes, context is everything. I was curious how Cheers! would hold up wrapped around a bottle. The answer was that it held up beautifully. Imagery Winery has been doing this for decades, and it shows in how thoughtfully they treat the artwork.
It's also just a genuinely fun thing to be part of. Imagery has a long tradition of commissioning original art for their labels, and getting to add my work to that history — alongside artists they've worked with over the years — is something I'm really proud of.
