“I had dinner with Envy last night.”

We had Japanese. Envy knows all the best sake houses. Envy has a wit as deliciously tart as her famous Margaritas Casa Verde. Envy’s aesthetics are intuitively impeccable. Those handmade kimonos she designs for celebrity clients are the hottest thing in Fashion.

Envy remembers every birthday and always sends just the right card. She is your mother’s favorite of your girlfriends. Envy is the most “ride or die” chick you want to know.

But Envy can’t see the beauty in Envy, for all of the shine she recognizes in another. You can hear it in her flattery, there behind her laugh and the way she has to tell you “how the situation really went down.”

   I guess I see her for who she is, and I think about the lifetime of experiences that have shaped her insecurities and her resentments.

If Envy is hating on you, you're probably pretty awesome. So, I find compassion for her struggle with being fully aware of her own awesomeness. I like her. Envy is hilarious, wicked smart, generous, thoughtful and I consider her my friend. I'm heading out to her place in the country next weekend for brunch. She has a batch of tulip bulbs from her garden set aside just for me.”

Skip Hill    Love Garden Party (Envy))   2019 

Mixed-medium painting over digital print. Acrylic paints, opaque and metallic inks, hand cut collage on coated paper stock. Artwork measures 28.5"w x 20.5"h. and is framed with conservation quality, high UV-filtering Museum glazing. Signed front and back (recto, verso) by the Artist. Available for purchase. $4000. Contact skiphillart@gmail.com