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Raphaella Vaisseau
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Sharing inspiration, nature, everyday life, and art. All pics are mine. Heartful Art is online, at Trackside Studios, 375 Depot St & more in Asheville, NC ♥️
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Detail from a new, spring-inspired painting by Raphaella Vaisseau. Visit me at my studio in Asheville at Trackside Studios, 375 Depot Street.
#ArtShow #Heartfulart by #RaphaellaVaisseau
Detail of a new garden painting by Raphaella Vaisseau with dark green stems, and blossoms of teal, golden yellow, pink, and mint green against peach and pastel green background
April 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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View from the library in Asheville #scape #landscape #mountainscape Spring is upon us. Thankful for the rain.
Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance almost obscured by stormy clouds, with cattle in a hill in front of a row of forest trees and rolling, lush, spring green farm fields in the foreground and wire fence bordering the fields closest to the viewer.a few larger trees on right.
April 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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I appreciate having this farm, trees, and mountains to gaze upon every morning. #Scape #landscape #mountainscape #farmview The spring rain has blessed the land in Asheville and given us green fields again, and blossoming trees.
Sky is a white, pale blue over Blue Rudge Mountains in the distance with fog in the valley behind a line of forested land, then small buildings behind a white fence bordering lush green farmland. Blossoming tree in foreground on right and barely blossoming trees farther away on lower left. Serene farm view after a rain.
April 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Good morning from Asheville. Spring has started turning farm fields green and the redbud trees are beginning to show their color.
#Scape #landscape #mountainscape #farmscape #viewfromhome #Asheville
View from home of greening farm fields with white fence across perimeter of fields, two houses on right side, trees with small buds in bottom right and left edge. Behind the fence is a forest of trees, and behind that are the Blue Ridge Mountains, with clouds in the pastel blue sky above casting shadows on the mountains.
March 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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#Fire watercolor on paper #painting by Raphaella Vaisseau from 2003 (sold long ago) for #MakersmARTch #mARTch #watercolorpainting #heartfulart by #raphaellavaisseau
Watercolor paint of original watercolor painting by Raphaella Vaisseau of flames of fire from lower left to upper right with orange, yellow, green, and other colors in various streams of dots and wavy lines in motion.
March 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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“Don’t worry about a thing, ‘cause every little thing gonna be all right”
- Bob Marley, Three Little Birds
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Raphaella’s “Think Happy Thoughts”stickers, magnets, posters available online here: www.heartfulart.com/Merchant2/me...
Positive vibes lift any action
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLyrics
Heartful Art Sticker and magnet saying “Think Happy Thoughts” with art by Raphaella Vaisseau around the words: red flower blossom on top and green leaves and colorful foliage throughout. Heartful Art by Raphaella Vaisseau copyright symbol on upper left.
March 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Heart of a Heron by Raphaella Vaisseau (sold) Small prints available here: www.heartfulart.com/Merchant2/me...
Two water birds with heads together forming a heart.
#acryliconcanvas #BlueSkyMonday #artist #heart #raphaellavaisseau #acrylicpainting
Acrylic on canvas painting by Raphaella Vaisseau of a Blue heart with green surrounding it against a deep purple back. Named “Heart of a Heron” for the image within the heart looking like two water birds with heads touching each other.
March 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Happy Sunday #stunday
“Nature’s Gift” #watercoloronpaper by Raphaella Vaisseau was lost in the flood of Hurricane Helene. Prints are here: www.heartfulart.com/Merchant2/me...
#onlybeautifulthings #artist #painter #raphaellavaisseau 🙏
Green leafy vines extend towards a big yellow sun in the top center of a watercolor painting by Raphaella Vaisseau. Blues, rose, orange, purple, and red surround the vines in the background. A celebration of “Nature’s Gift”
March 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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The life you live is the lesson you teach. #BlueSkyArtShow #sunlight Heartful Art poster in three sizes by Raphaella Vaisseau available here: www.heartfulart.com/Merchant2/me... Who we are matters. What we do matters. #watercoloronpaper #artist #Asheville
Heartful Art poster with art of Raphaella Vaisseau around the words, “The life you live is the lesson you teach.” Sun at top with streams of light going down both sides. A red heart center bottom with reeds and purple, pink, and blue flowers sprouting up from the grass to touch the sunbeams.
March 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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#AcrylicOnCanvas painting of the Blue Ridge Mountains from the Fields at Biltmore by Raphaella Vaisseau (sold). A few years ago these fields had a 6 ft wildflower border. Wonderful.
#scape #onlybeautifulthings #biltmoreestate #asheville #painting #art #raphaellavaisseau #landscape
Acrylic on canvas painting by Raphaella Vaisseau of a golden peachy sunset on the top left and blue cloudy sky towards the right edge over Asheville’s Blue Ridge Mountains with Forest of trees below, grassy fields and a bunch of wildflowers along the whole foreground.
March 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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My day as an artist included grant applications, spreadsheets, paper, errands, filling online orders, organizing, making prints, coaching, planning, and kitty love. Tomorrow I’m back in the studio. I love it all. Here’s a 24x24 #acryliconcanvas “For the Bees” www.heartfulart.com/Merchant2/me...
Acrylic on canvas painting by Raphaella Vaisseau of an Abstract pollinator garden with multicolored blossoms on stems and leaves curved vertically toward the center under blue sky.
March 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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I love taking my art to the framers. Elizabeth at Blackbird Art & Frame in Asheville has great ideas on how a frame could complement my art. Here’s a glimpse of “Symphony of the Sea” watercolor painting with an artful frame. A lavender reveal & an 8-ply off-white top mat.
#WatercolorArt #painting
Sea green wood piece of a picture frame with silver tipped swirls on a portion of a watercolor painting of green, lavender, coral, and off-white streams of abstract underwater flora by Raphaella Vaisseau.
March 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Detail of stems and blossoms from acrylic on canvas painting by Raphaella Vaisseau. See the whole painting here: www.heartfulart.com/Merchant2/me...
#AcrylicPainting #ArtShow #Asheville #tracksidestudios375art
Yellow vertical stems with multicolored floral blossoms and leaves, a detail from an acrylic on canvas painting g by Raphaella Vaisseau, “Believing in Spring.”
March 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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“Window” a watercolor painting I did in 1991. I wrote this in my book of paintings:
“Window: Frosted glass on a cold Minnesota winter evening. Rain steaming up a mountain cabin on a hot summer’s day. A prism through which to see the beauty of the world. An opening.”
#BlueSkyArtShow #Windows
Print of “Window” painting in watercolor by Raphaella Vaisseau resting on a window sill with blue sky outside. The painting is blue green and purple rendering of frost on window panes in Minnesota where I grew up.
March 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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I went to church with my neighbor a few weeks ago and stared at this beautiful stained glass window for most of the service. #BlueSkyArtShow #windows
#churchwindiw #stainedglass #Asheville
Stained glass church window with light illuminating the glass. It has a round top. Border all around is outlined glass strips with multi-colored panels between. Most of the window is golden sky panels, but in the upper center is a sunrise above a white dove which to me symbolizes the Holy Spirit.
March 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Yesterday’s dusting of snow on the Blue Ridge Mountains in #Asheville.

#landscape #scape #mountains #onlybeautifulthings
Snow capped Blue Ridge Mountains in background with winter landscape of pine trees and bare deciduous trees in foreground under cloudy skies
March 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Sign on a fence on Depot Street in Asheville’s River Arts District.
#messages
#banner
#positivevibes
#Asheville
Blue letters on yellow background on a huge sign attached to a fence with barbed wire on the top edge, saying “Do you ever get a deep feeling that it is all going to be okay?”
March 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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I love the whole painting, but find great joy in seeing details, like miniature works of art in their own right. The original is sold; prints are online here: www.heartfulart.com/Merchant2/me...
Raphaella Vaisseau, detail of Smokey Mountain Summer, ©️2024, 24x24 acrylic
#ArtShow #onlybeautifulthings
Small detail of a larger painting by Raphaella Vaisseau with grass green background more exposed on left, and with blooming floral reeds and stems extending vertically, thicker on right half. Blossoms are white, rise, mint green, blue, pink, and yellow.
March 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Snow on the farm overnight, with clouds obscuring the mountains. Good morning to you 🎶 Wishing you peace today.
Gray cloudy skies with a hint of the mountains behind a row of bare trees across center of the picture. Farm fields have a dusting of snow while cattle graze, with two houses on right. Winter tree tops in foreground on right. Lamppost on far left and tree limbs across left edge from top to bottom.
March 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Last year’s sunset, a view of the Blue Ridge Mountains from home.

#onlybeautifulthings #Asheville
Sunset over the Blue Ridge Mountains with baby blue, peach, pink and golden skies over purple mountain peaks with dark green trees below, a white wooden fence bordering farm fields, a house on the right, lighted lamppost center left and a tree with no leaves yet on the left. This is the view from home.
March 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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My friend Leana @leanam.bsky.social and I bought each other’s prints and went to Blackbird Art and Frame together yesterday. Looking forward to seeing the final results in our homes.
#ArtShow #artistslife #asheville #leanamcguire #raphaellavaisseau
Two women at a table in a picture framing shop with art on the table and lots of frame choices in the background Two women at a table in a picture framing shop with art on the table and lots of frame choices in the background Frame corners and art on a table Frame corners and art on a table
March 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Book launch tonight at the #Asheville downtown library. I’ll read my essay. Fun to do a book reading again. It’s been decades since I lived in LA and read my stories out loud to people.
✨ It’s been 5 months since Hurricane Helene. The book is here: a.co/d/0qYxA9A
#writerslife #hurricanehelene
On the left, Book cover, “Stronger Than The Storm” with painting of a bird below title. On the right, information about the book launch event tonight in Asheville, 3/4/25 at the library.
March 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Good morning. Happy new week. This is a detail of the 3rd painting I did after the flood.
Detail from “Holding Light” ©️2024 by Raphaella Vaisseau, acrylic 18x24
View entire painting online here: www.heartfulart.com/Merchant2/me...
#onlybeautifulthings #ArtShow #RaphaellaVaisseau #Asheville
Abstract detail of floral painting by Raphaella Vaisseau with baby blue background, green stems, and blossoms of lavender, rose, red, and golden yellow rising from lower left to upper right as if on a windy day. The whole painting is called Holding Light and has a mirror image on the right of painting as if the flowers are holding light for recovery from Hurricane Helene’s devastation in Asheville where I live.
March 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Spring

Raphaella Vaisseau ©️2024, Asheville Spring, acrylic, 12” x 24”

Original is online here www.heartfulart.com/Merchant2/me... and at Trackside Studios in Asheville’s River Arts District
Abstract garden painting by Raphaella Vaisseau in center of white brick wall with titsl above “Asheville Spring” and her name below, with heartfulart.com and Asheville below her name. Painting is 12x24 with aqua sky above rows of spring green, orange, lavender, and yellow blossoms in lush thick green grass
March 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Spring Babies
#BlueSkyArtShow #Spring #sheep #lambs #animals #farmanimals #babyanimals
Three mama sheep with six lambs in a grassy barnyard with white wooden fence and farm buildings behind on a cloudy day in February
March 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM