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A Riverside artist mixes media to realize her sun-filled

dream home

BY CAROLINE SHAHEED

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When artist Anna Church renovated her Riverside Victorian, she

had a purpose: to find the light. The moment she and her husband,

Nick Dalton, bought the house for their family of four in 2014, she

started planning. The house was dark, rundown and cramped,

but the saving grace of high ceilings and a quick all-white paint

job meant Church could take time to figure out exactly how she

wanted to craft her ideal space.

“I wanted to create a functional and beautiful home, but also a

place I can invite customers to view my art outside of the gallery

walls and to connect with it in an actual living space,” states

Church, whose work merges sculpture with photography. Using

leaves, plaster mouldings, old pieces of china, antique instruments

or whatever sparks her creativity, Church makes sculptures, which

she then photographs and turns into fine art prints.

TOP In the sunshine-drenched,
open-concept ground floor, savings (Wayfair
pendant; Ikea chairs) mingle with splurges
(custom dining table by Atelier Arking; area
rugs from Christie Antique & Vintage Show).