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Molly Rose Freeman is an American artist best known for her large-scale murals and installations that weave vibrant color and organic patterns into the built environment.

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Molly Rose Freeman is an artist and designer best known for her large-scale murals and installations that weave vibrant colors and organic patterns into the built environment.

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🌿 HAPPY PLANT 🌿
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I made this little illustration today using some of the repeat patterns I’ve been working on. It’s a spirit-portrait of one of my houseplants that is super alive and bursting with new growth! I am a devoted tender of green things big and small, and seeing them thrive makes me feel like a proud mama. 😍😍😍
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The color inspiration for this illustration came from a recent post by @secretlivesofcolour talking about creating a red-and-green dominant color palette without it looking Christmas-y. It’s been on my mind all week because I love that color combo (think watermelons and strawberry patches and neon sunsets over green fields 🍉) so thanks for the fun prompt!
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#secretlivesofcolor #plantmom #surfacepatterndesign

🐚 HELLO WORLD 🐚

I am back from a week at the beach where I did a lot of nothing, and it refreshed my memory of how important nothing-ness is. ~
Today I was thinking about when I was a kid, and my room was always messy. My parents would get mad at me because they’d tell me to clean it, and I’d go upstairs, and they’d come up an hour later and nothing would be different 😂 They could not understand wtf I’d been doing up there the whole time. And you know what I did? NOTHING. Literally nothing, I would just lay on my floor and stare at the ceiling and let my mind and imagination wander. It was the only time I had that wasn’t filled up with school, family, friends, and I was starving for it. I see now how essential that was for me: how precious it is to allow yourself free, unstructured time.
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It’s so easy for me (maybe you too??) to get caught up in doing and doing and doing that I forget to rest in between the doings. That rest is where insight and integration and some deep-dark-juicy-mystery stuff happens, and I am here for it. So in case you need permission, today or literally any day ever, here it is: beautiful human, you have permission to do absolutely nothing.
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Clean your room later.
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P.S. I made this artwork today with some technological wizardry, and I feel like it captures the full bloom and blush of late Summer. Fall is waiting in the wings, so close!
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#donothing #colorandpattern #patterndesign

✨ BEAUTY CONTINUED ✨

John O'Donohue writes in Beauty: “The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere—in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No-one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the Beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming. Some of our most wonderful memories are of beautiful places where we felt immediately at home. We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of our soul.” Where do you feel the presence of beauty? Where does your soul feel a homecoming?

Our environments are as much a part of our lives as the music we listen to, the books we read, the people we connect with. And this relationship, between our mind-body-spirits and the physical spaces we inhabit, has the potential for wonder, healing, and transformation. So let's activate it!

If you are working with a space and have an idea—or just a desire—to make it more beautiful, let me know. I am taking on some new commissions this year, for murals as well as other elements within the built environment: sculpture, lighting, textiles. If there is a space that's calling out to be transformed by color and pattern, send me an email at info@mollyrosefreeman.com and let's dream it together. ✨

#beautyeverywhere #beautifuldesign #builtenvironment

✨ BEAUTY ✨

Do you have a Summer reading list? I have (finally!) gotten to dive into mine this month, including a gorgeous book by John O'Donohue called Beauty. It is delivering so many nuggets of wisdom and making me think a lot about how we value beauty in our current culture. One of the most resonant passages for me was this one about our built environments: “Beauty is mostly forgotten and made to seem naive and romantic. The blindness of property development creates rooms, buildings, and suburbs which lack grace and mystery. Socially, this influences the atmosphere in the workplace, the school room, the board room, and the community. It also results in such degradation of the environment that we are turning more and more of our beautiful earth into a wasteland. Much of the stress and emptiness that haunts us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse and dull if it remains unvisited by thoughts and images which hold the radiance of beauty.” So much is said and written about poverty in terms of economy, class, culture—what about a poverty of beauty?

Within the built environment, where we spend so much of our time, that poverty is striking. In recent history, there has been abundance of uninspired color palettes, a default toward vertical and horizontal lines, and a preference for cheap and perfunctory building materials. Beauty was dismissed as a luxury, or something trivial that could be sacrificed for function or the bottom line.

Now, I see the tides beginning to turn. I see architects, designers, and builders waking up to the importance of beauty in the built environment for the health, happiness, and engagement of those who inhabit their spaces. They honor this essential truth: beauty reminds us what it is to be human. It is not just something that exists on the surface—it is a gateway that invites us into a deeper experience of ourselves, our world, and all the ways in which we're connected. ✨

CONTINUED IN NEXT POST~ ✨

#placemaking #builtenvironment #beautifuldesign

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