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Samantha Frances Art Whimsical, nature-inspired fine art masterfully created to bring natural energy to your home.

I create unique wildlife art to style your home, enabling you to remain connected with nature without having to leave your home.

💬 "We found this print in an AirBnB and were over the moon to track it down for Mother's Day."That moment when art stops...
11/10/2026

💬 "We found this print in an AirBnB and were over the moon to track it down for Mother's Day."

That moment when art stops you in your tracks — even on holiday. Olivia found this Blue Octopus in a holiday let and hunted it down as a Mother's Day gift. That's the kind of painting I want to make. 🐙

👇 Have you ever spotted a piece of art somewhere unexpected and just had to find out where it came from? Tell me below!

A typical studio day for me: I start with coffee in my Paris apartment studio - no commute needed!Then I straighten up f...
10/10/2026

A typical studio day for me:
I start with coffee in my Paris apartment studio - no commute needed!
Then I straighten up from the night before because I always leave it in absolute chaos when James calls me for dinner when he gets in from school.

By afternoon I'm usually so deep in the work I've lost track of time, moved between three different pieces whilst layers dry, and I'm surrounded by cold cups of tea I forgot to drink. I love that I get so absorbed I'm in my own world - though it can be dangerous because tiredness + obsession = overworking a piece, so I have to be strict with myself to PUT THE BRUSH DOWN.

It ends with genuine surprise when James gets home and feeling like I've been in a creative trance - my studio looks chaotic and messy, but somehow my artwork isn't. I search for clarity in my work even when my space is anything but.
This is what my creative life looks like - messy, beautiful, and exactly where I want to be. 🎨

Can you relate to losing track of time when you're doing what you love?

I painted three seahorses . And then I put them together and felt something. That's when I knew Tidal Spirits was ready....
08/10/2026

I painted three seahorses . And then I put them together and felt something.

That's when I knew Tidal Spirits was ready.

Each one carries its own energy — and I love that about this collection.
Tidal Kiss has a lightness to it. A springtime-in-the-water feeling, two seahorses completing their morning dance like it's the most natural thing in the world. 🐚
Ocean Lumen is stiller. Quieter. A single seahorse suspended against the deepest navy, glowing with colour and detail — like watching light drift slowly through calm water. ✨

And then there's Lumen Rise — that soft, upward lift. A creature moving forward with quiet intention, the backdrop a shade lighter, the whole piece radiating a gentle, luminous energy that just fills a room. 🌊

Three pieces. Three feelings. One canvas collection that somehow holds them all together.

Available individually or as a complete triptych — because each one is whole on its own, and extraordinary together.
→ Shop via the link in bio

→ Not in the Collectors' Club yet? You're missing early access to everything 👇

Can I let you in on the most common thing I hear from collectors? 😄“I wish I’d gone bigger.”I completely understand the ...
07/10/2026

Can I let you in on the most common thing I hear from collectors? 😄

“I wish I’d gone bigger.”

I completely understand the caution — a smaller piece feels like the safer choice. But the number of collectors who come back and say “I should have got the large” — honestly, it’s most of them! 🥲

Bigger isn’t extravagant. It’s about finding the right size for your space.....

What size are you currently eyeing up?

It's not just a colour. It's a feeling. Bold enough to own a wall. Deep enough to quiet the noise.Navy reminds me of the...
06/10/2026

It's not just a colour. It's a feeling. Bold enough to own a wall. Deep enough to quiet the noise.

Navy reminds me of the ocean at its most still — that moment just below the surface where everything slows down and suddenly you're completely here. Present. Grounded. Alive.

It's why I keep coming back to it. Dark backgrounds let the subject breathe, let the colour pop, let the art speak without shouting. Juxtaposition is everything to me — light against dark, wild against calm, vivid against deep.
Whether it's a kingfisher cutting through the midnight blue or a hummingbird blazing against something rich and unexpected — every canvas is designed to shift the energy of your space the moment it goes up.
What colour is your wall craving right now? 👇

Shop canvas prints - https://f.mtr.cool/nzkjrn1m0w

Fifteen years of magnolia walls will do one of two things to you. 🎨Either you accept them. Or you fight back with colour...
05/10/2026

Fifteen years of magnolia walls will do one of two things to you. 🎨

Either you accept them. Or you fight back with colour.
I chose colour.

As a Royal Marines spouse, home has never been a fixed postcode. It's been a series of Married Quarters, packing boxes, and fresh starts — each one another set of magnolia walls waiting to be lived in. And somewhere along the way, art became the way I made every new house feel like us.

But here's what those constant moves quietly gave me — without me even realising it.

Resilience. Adaptability. A fierce, unshakeable need to create beauty wherever I landed.
And eventually? A painting career I never once saw coming.
From NatWest fraud departments to bouncy castles to teaching assistants to a Parisian art studio — life has taken some spectacular detours. But every single one of them led me here. Brush in hand. Colour on canvas. Finally home — wherever that happens to be.

I've written about what military spouse life really looks like as an artist, and why those magnolia walls might be the unlikely reason I paint the way I do. 🌿
Read the full story

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Someone messaged me last year and with in their message they said -"I didn't know how much I needed it until it was up o...
04/10/2026

Someone messaged me last year and with in their message they said -"I didn't know how much I needed it until it was up on my wall." 🐚

That message has stayed with me. Because that's exactly what I paint for.

Marine art does something to people. I see it time and again - collectors miles from the coast telling me they feel at home for the first time in their living room.

That something in them settles. I think it's the reminder that there's something vast and alive beyond our four walls — and that we belong to it too.

If you have a piece of mine at home, I'd genuinely love to see it. Tag me or drop a photo below — it means more than you know. 🌊

Hey, I'm Sammie! 👋Come in, settle in - I'm so glad you're here! Let me tell you a little bit about me and why I do what ...
03/10/2026

Hey, I'm Sammie! 👋

Come in, settle in - I'm so glad you're here! Let me tell you a little bit about me and why I do what I do. 🌊

I'm a wildlife artist, a coastal girl at heart, and someone who genuinely believes the right piece of art can completely change the energy of a room - and the person standing in it.

I grew up in a fishing family with salt air, wild coastlines, and the kind of connection to nature that just gets under your skin and never leaves. That feeling has never gone anywhere. It just found its way onto canvas.

I paint octopus, seahorses, whales, peacocks - honestly anything that sparks my curiosity! Wild creatures full of personality, life and a little bit of magic, painted with all the bold, joyful colour they deserve.

Right now I'm painting from my studio in Paris, which still makes me pinch myself honestly! But the wild coastlines are never far - and that energy? I carry it with me everywhere I go and straight onto the canvas.

I'm here to bring that energy into your everyday - the kind that lifts a room, shifts your mood, and reminds you that the wild world is still out there waiting for you.
So glad you found me!

Drop a 👋 below and say hi - I'd love to know where you're joining from! 🌊✨

I was commissioned to paint an octopus. Complete creative freedom. 30+ hours of work. I'd purposefully painted the tenta...
01/10/2026

I was commissioned to paint an octopus. Complete creative freedom. 30+ hours of work. I'd purposefully painted the tentacles flowing off the edge of the canvas because I wanted that sense of movement — like she couldn't be contained.
Then I placed the mount on for completion. And my heart sank.
It looked like I'd chopped the tentacles off with a guillotine. Awful. I was gutted.
My husband — who will happily admit he doesn't have a creative bone in his body — looked at it and said "why don't you just paint on the mount?"

I thought... you absolute Idiot. You can't paint on a mount. It's not the right paper. It won't work. That's not how it's done.
Next morning. Coffee in hand. Staring at this piece I thought was ruined. And I thought... well, blow it. It's already a disaster. What have I got to lose?
So I sketched the tentacles out across the mount. Just to see.

And there it was. This contemporary, unexpected feel of the octopus completing herself beyond the canvas. Something I never would have planned. Something better than anything I had in mind.
That "ruined" painting became my best-selling piece. It lives on today in prints, in new collections, in the whole direction my work has taken since. All because my husband — who can't draw a stick figure — said the obvious thing I was too stuck to see. 💙
Sometimes the best things come from the worst moments. The mistakes. The morning-coffee "sod it" decisions. The people around you who see what you can't.

Ever had a happy accident that changed everything? Tell me yours — I love these stories. 👇
And if you want to own the piece that started it all — prints are released when I return to the UK, Join my collectors club to be the first to know when they'll next be released link in Bio ...or comment Happy accident and ill add you to my list.😆

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