Julie Rips Magnets

Julie Rips Fridge Magnets | tiny landscapes, big feelings

Your fridge is doing a lot. The least it can do is look good doing it.

These magnets are reproductions of original landscape paintings by Monterey-based artist Julie Rips, who has spent years hiking from Carmel Valley to the Big Sur coast, painting what she sees and feels along the way — the warm purple hills, the dramatic cliffs, the cypress groves, the light hitting the water just right. Her paintings don't just depict this place; they feel like this place. And now that feeling lives on your refrigerator.

Julie works in the plein air tradition — painting on location, outside, in the actual wind and salt air — which means every image carries something a print-from-a-stock-photo never could: the real thing, made by someone who was genuinely there and genuinely moved by it.

BEST FOR
People who left their heart somewhere on the Big Sur coast, people who live on the Big Sur coast and still can't believe it, gifting to your friend who moved away and gets misty-eyed about the fog, holding up nothing in particular but doing it beautifully, and turning "I need to clean out the fridge" into "wait, isn't this lovely."

SIZES
4 x 5.5 inches. Small enough to collect them all, large enough to actually see the art.

ARTIST
Julie Rips is a Monterey County-based landscape painter. To see her original works and prints, visit julierips.com.