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Here, We Choose Joy
I'm Lizzie Selle, and this is my studio. It doesn't feel like any store you've been in, and that's on purpose. Original art, artisan-made treasures, a working studio where I paint, and a room built entirely around joy.
In a world that keeps talking us into greige, I'm making the case for color.
One rule: butterflies
When is a painting done? When it gives me butterflies. Obsession-level love. Anything less goes back on the easel.
I hold everything here to the same rule: the artists I represent, the jewelry and handbags, the pottery and gifts. If it doesn't light me up, it doesn't come in. That's why the room feels the way it does.
The work
I paint abstracts with expressive movement, fearless color, and layers of brushwork and oil pastel that build until the composition clicks.
Plot Twist, my largest piece to date, is a living reminder of how I approach my art. Underneath it is a completely different painting. It was soft, safe, and good. People complimented it, but I didn't love it. So I painted over it, went bolder with every color, and finished with a hit of fiery orange because it needed something hot. At the same time, I was letting go of one plan for my next space and saying yes to a better one. That's where the name comes from.
The pieces I love most come straight from my life. In 2025, my daughter Avery, then three, was diagnosed with a brain tumor and came through surgery. That season became my BrAvery Collection, my favorite body of work to date and the one where I found the confidence to fully embrace bold, unapologetic color and composition. Ten percent of its sales go to Winning With Wyatt, which funds pediatric brain and spinal tumor research.
How could something so beautiful come from something so hard? That's the story of my art.
How I got here
I spent a decade in fashion: designing, merchandising, traveling, defining the next trend. Then a car accident in 2019 left me with a brain injury I still live with, and a paintbrush rerouted everything.
Those jobs seemed random at the time. Every one of them was building the skill set I need for this exact moment. My designer brain never left. I photograph paintings in progress, study them on my iPad at night, and mock them up in rooms until they're right.
Every big turn in my life came from trusting myself in increasingly bigger ways: trading fashion for paint, opening my studio in La Grange in 2023, painting over Plot Twist.
I've learned to listen to myself, and trust her.
Working with me
You don't need to "know art" to be welcome here. Follow what gives you butterflies, and I'll help with the rest: choosing it, framing it, and getting it on your wall.
It usually starts with a home visit. I bring the art to you, and we see how it lives in your space.
That's how it went with Michelle, who told me she was "allergic to color" when we first met. One home consultations and several paintings later, she hasn't seen her home, or color, the same way since.
Ali fell for a piece at the One of a Kind Show and booked a home visit that same week. I brought along a few other pieces I thought might work, and one space turned into three. On installation day, we discovered we'd both lived through brain injuries, and the art meant more to both of us after that.
Lola and Joe had wanted more color and joy in their home for years. They came to the studio, then I came to them. Now, they gravitate to the rooms with the art, and they're building an addition. More walls, more art.
Emily, my longtime collector, came to me for her first gallery wall and didn't know where to begin. With every project she's trusted her own eye more and more. Seeing her now, empowered, confident and excited to choose the pieces that give her butterflies, makes me so proud.
This year we worked on gallery walls of her four kids' artwork. We chose the pieces, frames, and mats together, and I handled everything from there. She said installation day felt like Christmas morning, with her kids running downstairs shouting, "Mom, that's mine!"
And then came Plot Twist. She borrowed it to try on her wall…and simply couldn’t give it back. She was completely, absolutely obsessed.
That obsession-level love? That’s the goal. Finding art that gives you butterflies, makes you light up, and feels like it was always meant to be yours. There’s nothing better.
Come see me!
522 W Burlington Ave. Ste 2E · La Grange, IL
Until then, I'm in the current studio every Friday (11-4) and Saturday (10-3), Starting October 9!
Grab a friend and come shop.