Château Starling • Artist’s Proof Fine Art Print

My diary entry from the studio while creating this piece:

Do you remember the flowers in your room when you first arrived to Chateau Starling? Can you still picture the blooms on the table of our long dinners? Can you smell the ancient roses that lent their aroma to our garden ball under the Provençal sky?

After our final goodbyes of this unforgettable week, I took a final walk alone through our shared chateau that almost felt sacred at this point. Every room was filled with happy memories, laughter, sharing, tears (the good kind), and a certain magic that can only be described as “so Starling.” I gathered all the flowers left from these moments for us and brought them back to my studio. I arranged them together inside the vintage vase I had found that perfect day at the brocante market we explored together.

Maybe a part of me never wanted this week to end. Did you want it to last forever too?

Art is life, and for it to be so, every part of this image was created from something present during that week. Tucked among the flowers is a small cluster of bees, a tribute to the remarkable hive that arrived over the wishing well as we first gathered, stayed with us for a few days, and then moved on to find its home. It felt like a gift, an omen, and something quietly magical that we all experienced together.

I thought about the still life from the Duchy of Uzès as I shaped the bouquet. I thought about how the variety of flowers was such a perfect representation of all the Starlings present. Each their own flower, each beautifully unique, and all together, something really special.

This photograph became my way of preserving what was impossible to hold onto otherwise: the beauty of the place, the tenderness of the moments we shared, and the feeling that for one brief week, something extraordinary happened. We were the flowers, and in this photograph, we can stay in our happy chateau forever.

Artist’s Proof • Only two available

Before an edition is made, I print a small number of proofs to perfect color, paper and detail. These are artist’s proofs, marked ‘AP’ instead of a number, for example AP 1/3. By tradition there are only ever a few.

Artist’s proofs sit outside the numbered edition, and historically they were the prints artists kept for themselves. They are the rarest prints of any edition and the closest to the artist’s own hand. That is why they are priced above the numbered prints, and why serious collectors look for them.

Château Starling comes from a sold-out limited edition of 18, which sold for $500 per print. There are three artist’s proofs: I kept and framed AP #1 myself. Only AP #2 of 3 and AP #3 of 3 are available, for the first time, in the Fine Art Print Drop.

The Fine Art Print Drop opens November 14, 2026 and closes 48 hours later.

• Size: 11 × 14 inches
• Paper: Hahnemühle Bamboo, a museum-quality fine art paper made in Germany by Hahnemühle, papermakers since 1584. Crafted from 90% bamboo fibre and 10% cotton, with a soft, natural warmth that suits flowers beautifully.
• Print: Archival pigment print, made to last for generations. Printed in Provence, 100% made in France
• Signed in pencil, marked AP, and embossed with the artist’s seal
• Created: May 15, 2026
• Printed: June 2026

Gift this for the holidays! Ships in November and arrives before the end of November.