Original lake, wildlife & Appalachian botanical artwork

Where the view from the water comes home.

Artwork shaped by freshwater places—wooded banks, reflected color, wildlife, native plants, and the small details that make a place feel known.

Available as ready-to-hang Canvas and as Lakehouse Goods Art Prints, wall tapestries, and Art Puzzles. U.S. shipping included.

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Canvas Collection · ready-to-hang wall art

Canvas arrives ready to hang.

Stretched, gallery-wrapped, and finished.

The finished Canvas goes directly on the wall.

Beneath Ancient Leaves medium gallery-wrapped Canvas in a screened porch reading room with the lake outside

Beneath Ancient Leaves Medium vertical Canvas · screened-porch room view

Blue Cove with Rising Light tall panoramic gallery-wrapped Canvas in a lakeside passage

Blue Cove with Rising LightTall panoramic Canvas

Cardinal Flowers and Turtle in Shade gallery-wrapped Canvas above a table and banquette in a bright lake-house breakfast nook

Cardinal Flowers and Turtle in ShadeWide Canvas · breakfast nook

Great Blue Heron on Lake Keowee 18 by 24 inch gallery-wrapped Canvas in a bright lake bathroom

Great Blue Heron on Lake Keowee18 × 24 Canvas

Moss Bank, Soft Underfoot gallery-wrapped Canvas above a blue bed in a bright lake-house guest room

Moss Bank, Soft UnderfootHorizontal guest-room Canvas

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Lakehouse Goods · paper, textile & puzzles

Woodland artwork to frame, hang, and piece together.

Smooth paper, hemmed textile, and puzzle pieces.

Frame an Art Print, cover a larger wall with a tapestry, or take in the details one puzzle piece at a time.

Rabbit in the Rhododendron wall tapestry filling an entryway wall with woodland color

Rabbit in the Rhododendron Wall tapestry · entryway room view

Carolina Wren in the Beech Roots 18 by 24 inch Lakehouse Goods Art Print shown with a light-walnut frame and warm mat in a sunlit living room

Carolina Wren in the Beech Roots18 × 24 Art Print, shown framed

Eastern Screech Owl 80 by 68 inch wall tapestry in a warm screened porch with the lake outside

Eastern Screech Owl80 × 68 wall tapestry

Red Fox in the Muscadine Vines 16 by 20 inch Lakehouse Goods Art Print displayed on a light wall beside wood and a green plant

Red Fox in the Muscadine Vines16 × 20 Art Print

Black Bear Forest Art Puzzle shown with its artwork-reference box and puzzle pieces on a tabletop

Black Bear ForestArt Puzzle · four piece counts

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The field record and the artwork

The mountains have their own rainbow.

I’m an Appalachian artist who has almost always had a camera in my hand. These photographs began as references for my artwork, then grew into a field record and community-science practice around the plants, fungi, animals, and lichens Nathan and I encounter in Kentucky Appalachian coves and forest floors.

Cardinal Flower vivid red flower cluster photographed by Rachel Stepek — Red

Cumberland Azalea orange flowering cluster photographed by Rachel Stepek — Orange

Shaggy-Stalked Bolete golden mushroom photographed by Rachel Stepek — Yellow & Gold

Red-Eared Slider luminous yellow-green underside photographed by Rachel Stepek — Green

Indigo Milk Cap saturated blue gills photographed by Rachel Stepek — Blue & Indigo

Viscid Violet Cort mushroom photographed by Rachel Stepek — Violet & Pink

Ghost Pipe blush-white flower cluster photographed by Rachel Stepek — White & Cream

Old-Man-of-the-Woods charcoal mushroom photographed by Rachel Stepek — Earth & Black

Cumberland Azalea flowering in the Appalachian field — Field photograph · Cumberland Azalea

Close detail of Cumberland Azalea orange blooms and purple sandstone in Rachel Stepek's artwork — Artwork · Cumberland Azalea on Purple Sandstone

I bring the colors back to the studio.

Color is often what stops me first: cardinal red on a bank, lemon yellow beneath a mushroom cap, or blue milk bleeding from an Indigo Milk Cap. Those flowers, fungi, water, stone, and wildlife continue into the artwork.

The Appalachian Color Guide follows the wider spectrum across Kentucky Appalachian coves and forest floors. The Laurel River Lake Natural Color Guide stays with my home lake and the particular palette made by its plants, fungi, newts, sunfish, lichens, mosses, and changing forest color.

Follow the Appalachian spectrum See Laurel River Lake in color Enter Field Notes See how the field record is built

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Canvas Collection · Reflected Light

Blue-Gold Stillness

Blue-gold evening color spreading across still freshwater.

Lakehouse Goods · Art Puzzle

Opossum on the Mossy Log

Moss, oak leaves, fungi, and woodland light.

Canvas Collection

Cumberland Azalea on Purple Sandstone

Cumberland azalea rising from purple sandstone above emerald water.

Lakehouse Goods · Art Print

Chipmunk Under the Sassafras

Sassafras leaves, sandstone, fungi, and bright woodland color.

Canvas Collection

Smallmouth Bass in Clear Water

Bronze-green fish, submerged rock, and clear moving water.

Lakehouse Goods · Wall Tapestry

Wildcat Above the Gorge

Bobcat, mountain laurel, sandstone, and blue-violet distance.

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Four Reflected Light canvases installed together along a collector's home staircase

In a collector’s home

The last few minutes before heading in.

The sun sits highest in the top canvas, then lowers with the stairs until evening settles at the bottom.

“I love looking at these every day.”Verified purchaser · Reflected Light collector

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