A title arrives like an invitation slipped under the door. This is how Danielle Kosann begins—not with a sketch or color study, but with a phrase, often borrowed from songs and poetry, that unlocks entire universes before brush meets canvas. In her latest collection, You Still Haven’t Met All of the People Who Are Going to Love You, these fragments become keys to luminous worlds where women move freely through spaces that glow with possibility, where romance expands beyond its traditional definition to encompass the full spectrum of human connection.
Each painting springs from a specific emotional charge made visual—the intoxication of youth and movement in Paris Is a Feeling; the overwhelming swell of a deepening bond in Looking for Somebody to Love; the hypnotic pull of the unexpected in It’s Easy to Get Lost Along the Way. To capture these ephemeral feelings, Kosann departed from her typical process of creating studies with oil pastels, embracing instead watercolor’s fluid spontaneity as a foundation before resolving each world in oil.
This collection marks Kosann’s most intuitive work to date, guided by feeling rather than deliberate design. Smaller works sometimes emerge in fevered single-day sessions, seized by emotions too insistent to delay; larger works build slowly, their atmospheres thickening with each layer. Her studio becomes a sanctuary where she inhabits each painting’s world until it’s fully realized.
The resulting works function as both sanctuary and invitation. More than escape, Kosann’s paintings guide us toward a deeper recognition—that transformation awaits not in distant places but in the quality of our attention to one another. The collection operates as a visual antidote, revealing the love and joy that surround us, often hiding in plain sight within our everyday encounters. They point to a simple truth: the magic we seek has been there all along—in our capacity to love and be loved, to connect deeply with ourselves and others.
