Erin Stratton, Artist

Making vibrant art has saved my life and fixed my brain and heart so many times.

Now, it's keeping me going through all this (waves hands at everything happening in the world at the moment).

I'm here to help you heal with creative coaching services that teach you to get back in touch with whimsy and yourself.

New Work

Pussy Portals

This is a series about finding my way back to myself through art - a kind of artistic rebirth process that always involves experimentation and new materials. In this case, I added sculpture and combined two of my previous styles.

Favorite Things

Another way I've been finding my way back to myself - painting some of my favorite things. This is Bishop's Peak, my favorite view in all the land (and I can see it if I walk a few blocks).

Collections

The Tiny Universe Project

200+ imaginary galaxies. Started after getting hooked on Hubble telescope images. Painted them every night to get into flow state and remember how to play.

Watercolor Moons

Meditations on color and flow, painted when panic attacks were taking over my life and I needed to learn to ground and center.

My Small Friend

The theory behind this collection: you can't be lonely if you have a little dinosaur, monster, or animal friend to keep you company, cheer you on, make you braver and take on life by your side.

Symbolic Swirls

Blacklight reactive symbols and swirls from my synesthesia. Except, I had no idea what synesthesia was when I started this all...

About the Artist

Hi, I'm Erin Stratton, a multimedia artist in San Luis Obispo, California. I create pieces that range from abstract swirls to imaginary universes to creatures that keep you company.

Art is how I process things I can't move through any other way. Sometimes that's grief, sometimes it's panic, sometimes it's just needing to remember how to play. The work changes depending on what I'm working through.

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Coming Up:

The Long Way Home

What if nothing you made was a detour?

My first-ever solo show, Take The Long Way Home shows work from my return to art after heartbreak and a health-related break—I'm back and ready to play.

This exhibition traces the long way back: through past styles, new techniques, starting a series about artistic rebirth, finishing things from the works-in-progress graveyard in my garage and honoring some of my favorite things.

Rather than leaving anything behind, the work looks back through where I've been with curiosity and a new level of acceptance, allowing earlier chapters to inform what’s being made now, and healing the hurts of past artistic chapters through this new body of work.

At its center is an invitation—to reflect on your own creative and personal history, and to consider it differently.

Everything you make is part of your story.

May 2025

Two Broads Ciderworks

860 Capitolo Way, Suite B

San Luis Obispo, CA