Meet Cailyn

Cailyn is an emerging American artist based out of North Carolina who owns and runs her art business under the name RiverPalette. She specializes mostly with watercolors but also isn’t afraid to try new mediums and experiment. You’ll see her often depicting more nature designs inspired by the many sources of nature around her from the mountains to the ocean. Since taking her art serously she has developed and followed her moto of “always dreaming” and wishes to share those dreams and encourage others to follow their own.

Always Dreaming

Cailyn started drawing as a child like many others, often losing herself on the page. She went on to paint with watercolors in middle school and in her final years of college, she began experimenting with other mediums and has since continued to refine her skills to what it is today.

Cailyn currently maintains a presence on social media. She intends to continue her current projects and pursuits, hoping to one day have her work in galleries and teach.

FAQs

  • Always dreaming, is this little mantra I made for myself in 2023 during a time that I found quite pivotal to me. In ways it was the beginning of my art journey. At the time, I was graduating college with not much of a plan for afterwards. I had no intentions at first of doing art at all, with the idea that I’d just do it sometime later.  But I had this sudden urge to say to hell with it, I’m going to try my hardest to build a name as an artist and make this a thing. I made a deal with myself – if I could commit each day and all my spare time towards drawing and practicing and if I can one day sell some of my work as an artist, then maybe I really did find what I was supposed to do after all and really chase that dream. So I told my friends when asked what I’m doing all the time is, I’m ‘always dreaming’.
    Always dreaming is a reminder.
    It’s a reminder for me to draw, learn and challenge myself every single day and work towards my dream.
    It’s a reminder for me to pause, and focus on what’s important to me.
    It’s a reminder that every day I am still chasing my dreams, with no intention of stopping. 

  • One thing that has always been the primary drive behind my work is connection, on the most basic, emotional level. An emotional connection between artwork and the viewer, almost like a visual dialogue. My ideas often revolve around experiences that a lot of us go through and can relate to or understand and how we can sometimes associate those with animals, whether intentionally or not. Sometimes we associate animals to meanings of our own, or ones shared through our cultures. For me, I put down onto paper what I hope my work will be able to communicate, and connect or resonate with someone whose experienced that similarly. 

    I do have other themes that I tend to revisit occasionally as well, for example, the feeling of just being in the presence of nature. It’s different for us all, in that some find peace, while others see loneliness.