My friend Ione Skye showed 16 new oil paintings in L.A. at the Hall Courtyard Brasserie at Palihouse Holloway in an open-air gallery with guests like husband Ben Lee, Rose Byrne, Rufus Sewell, brother Donovan Leitch and Kirsty Hume, Aimee Mann and Tatiana von Furstenberg. Palihouse Holloway is West Hollywood's hippest hotel and a hangout for artists, musicians, actors, writers and fashionable folk. "The common inspiration in the images I want to paint is to have a sensual, lush feeling," Skye tells me. "Or I paint a fantasy I want to live in."