Meet Van Adel Studio

Creating gentle moments through watercolor and acrylic paintings on paper and canvas, each piece tells a quiet story.

Art, for me, begins where the countryside begins — in the quiet rustle of wildflowers, the soft morning light across a meadow, the way a single bloom holds an entire world inside it.

Growing up surrounded by nature gave me my first and most enduring teacher. Those wide open landscapes, so full of colour and life, became the foundation of everything I paint. Today, that same wonder lives in every brushstroke.

I work in acrylics and watercolours, drawn to the way each medium breathes differently — acrylics bold and layered, watercolours luminous and free. My current series, 100 Days of Florals, is an ongoing journey through nature in bloom: one original painting, every day, each one affordable and made to be lived with.

There is one thing you will find in every painting I make - a small red ladybug, tucked quietly somewhere in the composition. On a leaf, along a stem, resting at the edge of a petal.

She is never the first thing you notice. But once you find her, you always look for her again. She is my signature. A mark that says: this came from my hands, from real flowers, from real time spent looking and painting.

But she carries something else too - an old belief that a ladybug brings good luck to whoever she lands on. I paint her into every piece as a quiet wish for the person who takes it home. A small secret between the painting and you.