Meet Jack — properly known as Aeonium ‘Jack Catlin’, a striking bicolored succulent developed at the Huntington Botanical Garden in California and officially named in 2010 after the horticulturist who created him. Jack is, in every sense, a survivor with style. His rosettes spread wide and waxy — bright sour-apple green at the center, deepening to a burgundy-red at the outer leaves — and the whole plant can stretch to eighteen inches tall and twenty-four inches wide, forming a dense, generous mound. But here is the part of Jack's story that earned him the mug: most Aeoniums are monocarpic, meaning the entire plant dies after it flowers. Jack does not. The rosettes throw up their conical clusters of yellow star-shaped blooms in late winter or spring, and then they keep going. They simply persist. They keep being themselves long past the point where most of their botanical family quietly bow out. Beth Grimm painted the quiet rebel of the succulent world. The mug is for the persisters, the late-bloomers, the keep-going-anyways — and for the mornings when the most quietly defiant thing you can do is just keep being here.
About the artist
Beth Grimm is an Iowa native, a photographer, painter, mixed-media artist, and writer who has spent more than seventy-five years building a life shaped by creativity, resilience, and reinvention. Her path has never been linear — and that is precisely the point.
After marrying young, raising two children, and supporting her husband through dental school, Beth reached a turning point in her thirties: she had built a life, but somewhere along the way she had lost connection with her own. In 1978, she moved to California with her kids and started over. She helped launch her brother's law practice, put herself through paralegal school, and then made the audacious decision to go to law school. She was 34 when she started, 38 when she graduated, and by 40 she had built her own practice. For the next three decades she became known as the “California Condo Guru” and “The Plain English Lawyer.”
Creativity was never separate from any of it. As she transitioned out of law in her mid-sixties, photography became her anchor. At 70, she marked a single unforgettable day: her retirement, her first art exhibition, and her birthday, all at once. Today her work is rooted in photography but extends far beyond it — layered, expressive pieces built through digital manipulation, collage, and mixed media.
In 2025, Beth relocated to Hillsborough, North Carolina, where four generations of her family now live within a few miles of one another. She is currently writing her memoir and has already published The Great Grandpa Chronicles. She lives by the words she offers anyone who will listen: “Create as if your heart depends on it — because it does.”
Beth Grimm is a valued member of the Monarch Shoppe family.
About this mug
Available in 11 oz, 15 oz, and 20 oz · premium white gloss finish · printed with dye-sublimation so the image is fused into the ceramic for vivid color that won't fade, crack, or peel · handle stays cool · microwave- and dishwasher-safe. A Kate Shu Collective exclusive, available only at the Monarch Shoppe.
Meet Jack — properly known as Aeonium ‘Jack Catlin’, a striking bicolored succulent developed at the Huntington Botanical Garden in California and officially named in 2010 after the horticulturist who created him. Jack is, in every sense, a survivor with style. His rosettes spread wide and waxy — bright sour-apple green at the center, deepening to a burgundy-red at the outer leaves — and the whole plant can stretch to eighteen inches tall and twenty-four inches wide, forming a dense, generous mound. But here is the part of Jack's story that earned him the mug: most Aeoniums are monocarpic, meaning the entire plant dies after it flowers. Jack does not. The rosettes throw up their conical clusters of yellow star-shaped blooms in late winter or spring, and then they keep going. They simply persist. They keep being themselves long past the point where most of their botanical family quietly bow out. Beth Grimm painted the quiet rebel of the succulent world. The mug is for the persisters, the late-bloomers, the keep-going-anyways — and for the mornings when the most quietly defiant thing you can do is just keep being here.
About the artist
Beth Grimm is an Iowa native, a photographer, painter, mixed-media artist, and writer who has spent more than seventy-five years building a life shaped by creativity, resilience, and reinvention. Her path has never been linear — and that is precisely the point.
After marrying young, raising two children, and supporting her husband through dental school, Beth reached a turning point in her thirties: she had built a life, but somewhere along the way she had lost connection with her own. In 1978, she moved to California with her kids and started over. She helped launch her brother's law practice, put herself through paralegal school, and then made the audacious decision to go to law school. She was 34 when she started, 38 when she graduated, and by 40 she had built her own practice. For the next three decades she became known as the “California Condo Guru” and “The Plain English Lawyer.”
Creativity was never separate from any of it. As she transitioned out of law in her mid-sixties, photography became her anchor. At 70, she marked a single unforgettable day: her retirement, her first art exhibition, and her birthday, all at once. Today her work is rooted in photography but extends far beyond it — layered, expressive pieces built through digital manipulation, collage, and mixed media.
In 2025, Beth relocated to Hillsborough, North Carolina, where four generations of her family now live within a few miles of one another. She is currently writing her memoir and has already published The Great Grandpa Chronicles. She lives by the words she offers anyone who will listen: “Create as if your heart depends on it — because it does.”
Beth Grimm is a valued member of the Monarch Shoppe family.
About this mug
Available in 11 oz, 15 oz, and 20 oz · premium white gloss finish · printed with dye-sublimation so the image is fused into the ceramic for vivid color that won't fade, crack, or peel · handle stays cool · microwave- and dishwasher-safe. A Kate Shu Collective exclusive, available only at the Monarch Shoppe.
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