Rosy Ghost Curios is run by Jaeda Reed, a lifelong Western Washington resident, currently living and working in Tacoma’s Eastside with her husband, two Corgis, two fish, and tortoise.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pacific Lutheran University in 2013, she went on to cultivate a career as a wedding photographer. Despite her success, her passions are in the traditional mediums of watercolor and oil and she now works full-time as a painter.

A self-described “Halloween person,” Jaeda’s work tends to focus on the macabre through a whimsical lens. Believing Death to be the greatest mystery, she finds it to be an endless font of inspiration and source of creativity. She believes that grief walks hand-in-hand with joy, and there is as much room for celebration as there is mourning.

Focused very much on the cycle of life and death, much of her work features ghosts, which she finds to be the perfect medium for projection, as they are quite literally a “blank slate” for viewers to see their own loss and loved ones in her work.