Cassandra Bohne-Linnard

A creative life with room to change.

For Cassandra Bohne-Linnard, a butterfly is more than a subject. It is a meeting point between painting, the natural world and the possibility of transformation.

A native Houstonian who also works under the name Cassandra Bohne-L, she began painting long before art became her full-time focus. Oils and acrylics accompanied a corporate career and family life. When she stepped away from the corporate world, she made more space for a practice that had been developing for years.

That history matters to the work. Her creative life did not arrive fully formed; it grew through close observation, experimentation and a willingness to follow an unexpected idea. Today, Blue Butterfly Designs connects her interest in nature with the practical challenge of bringing an original art object into someone’s home.

A blue butterfly, a new direction.

Her painting Freedom, centered on a blue butterfly, became a turning point. The painted subject led her toward real specimens: their colors, patterns and delicate structures. A fascination that began on canvas expanded into three-dimensional work.

Butterfly cloches and clocks bring preservation into the act of making. According to her artist biography, she selects sustainably sourced specimens for their natural colors. The butterfly becomes both the material and the subject, held within a composition that asks the viewer to notice its individual detail.

Between a painting and a moment in time.

Her different forms of work offer different ways of looking. A cloche creates a small world to examine closely. A clock pairs a fragile natural form with an object that measures passing time. A painting gives her space to move beyond the specimen into imagined color and landscape.

The contemporary paintings belong to the same creative conversation. Trees, plants, moons and other forms from nature become the starting points for images that feel dreamlike rather than documentary. Preservation and invention sit alongside each other in a practice that continues to return to the living world.

Her work also connects to Houston’s public creative life. Butterfly pieces have been sold through the Houston Museum of Natural Science, and her practice is represented in the city’s studio and gallery community. Our interviews offer a way to hear more about that work directly from the artist.