Art that begins where words leave off
My name is Lemseh Carothers-Abdullah, and I paint intuitively — which means I never begin a piece knowing where it will end. No sketches, no color plans, no predetermined outcome. I pick up a brush or a palette knife and I follow something quieter: a feeling, an impulse, a color that wants to appear. The painting tells me what it needs to be.
That process might sound uncertain. To me, it feels like the most honest way I know how to make something.
I started Occipicco Art because I believe a home should do more than look good — it should feel like somewhere you can breathe. The art we live with every day shapes how we feel in a room, sometimes so subtly we don't notice until something is off. Or until something is right.
Every piece I make — whether it's an original canvas, an open-edition print, or a commission created specifically for your space — is made with that in mind. Not decoration for the sake of decoration, but something that holds a quality of stillness. Something that gives a room permission to be quiet.
I'm glad you're here.
— Lemseh Carothers-Abdullah, Occipicco Art
