The Owl Called my Name (Original Work)

  

'The Owl Carried Change'

20" X 20" X 1.5"

Work In Progress
Continued

Lady in the Wind (Original Art)

I drew out a couple of sketches at 3 am to capture the mood and the next day laid out an outline on an 16" X 20" X 1.5" canvas.

The completed piece is heavily layered and textured using acrylic paint.  Para-gliders soar, cumulonimbus clouds build, far off rain falls and wild ocean waves spray a rocking sailboat; All held by the mood of the Lady in the Wind.

 

'Lady in the Wind'

16" X 20" X 1.5"

Acrylic - Stretched canvas

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Molten Insomnia at 3am (Original Art)

Molten Insomnia at 3am
15" X 14" X 1.5"
Acrylic 
(Details: (4) 5" X 7" X .75" canvases on (1) 12" X 12" X .75" canvas) 
**Sold**

Take Flight - Falcon (Original Art)

Take Flight - Falcon (Original Art)
8" X 10" X 1.5"
Acrylic on stretched canvas

Take Flight - Hawk (Original Art)

This original gorgeous hawk, painted in vibrant purples with undertones of pink, is posed mid-landing (or launching) on a red and orange 8" X 10" X 1.5" canvas. The work has been sealed to help protect against fading. Edges are painted using a mix of the same reds and dark purples on the bird.


https://www.etsy.com/listing/219187509/take-flight-original-art?ref=shop_home_active_1

Skagway, Alaska

Skagway, Alaska
12" X 36" X 1.5"
Acrylic

(this work is unavailable) 

They Leave

"They Leave"

18" X 24" X 1.5"

Coffee with Sunday Morning (Original Art)

'Coffee with Sunday Morning'
***SOLD*** (Details: 4" X 12" X .75" permanently mounted to a 8" X 10" X .75", Mix of Medias include Acrylic, Ink, Oil Pastels, Watercolor)

Winter is Coming (Original Art)

'Winter is Coming'
16" X 20" X .75"
Print Available 

Serenity - Maggie's Tree (Original Art)

'Serenity' 
Maggie's Tree

8" X 12" X 1.5"
(1) 4" X 12" X .75" mounted to (1) 8" X 10" X .75" 

Oregon (Original Art)

"Oregon"

10.5 X 13.5 

Acrylic, Oil Pastels/ Loose Heavy Multi-Media Paper

Sunrise with the Wind Woman (Original Art)

Sunrise with the Wind Woman

12" X 16" X .75" 

Acrylic Paint/ Oil Pastels

Early September (Original Art)

'Early September ' 

11"X 14"

On Mixed Media Heavy Paper 

Acrylic/ Oil Pastels

It is framed in a 11”X 14 black matte with a 8" X 12"opening.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/191754192/early-september-original-fine-art?ref=shop_home_feat_4

'Wind Woman Sing me a Song' (Original Art)

'Wind Woman Sing me a Song'

11" X 14" 

Heavy Weight Drawing Paper

Permanent markers & Oil Pastels

https://www.etsy.com/listing/190727332/wind-woman-sing-me-a-song-original-fine?ref=shop_home_active_2

**Sold**

'Remember the Light after the Storm' (Original Fine Art)

Sunday evening I landed, I packed and then I stepped away to close my eyes and breathe deeply.  I took a long sip of air slightly chilled with a cold front passing, warmed with early summer rays and sharp with a taste of cut grass and dust.  I have the perfect amount of quiet gratitude in my glass of joy.  

I am lost in time again; looking around at a little eclectic community framed by wild clouds and golden sunset.

And I remember… I am twenty again, twenty and cold.  I hadn't anywhere to go that night and I was afraid to be found by the one person looking.  There was no one to call and no way to call anyway.  I had snow soaked tennis shoes on, a small stash of squirreled away cash in my pockets and the sudden inexplicable belief that I would 'will' myself out of the corner I'd painted myself into.  

I remember this night like it is now; I cup my soul’s hands gently, carefully, around that night with palms full of humble recognition.  That beautiful night I huddled, shaking and shivering, in the shelter of a covered door entry at a closed grocery store. I remember a fire born in darkness and determination.  The heat of it burned my heart, my ribs - the inner flames torched my icy fingers -I would get out of this mess.

I closed my eyes at that moment on that night and I pictured what this would mean, how it would taste, what I would be able to do.  I pictured the road trip Dee and I promised each other, I pictured my identity,  I took my fears of water, of heights, of friendship, of roots and I held them to this fire and watched them burn.  For hours, alone and un-found, until early dawn, I concentrated on this vision.  

I had realized one of my truths, (I have a few now), and this one is a big one.  Maybe an obvious one but that’s the thing about being young- we all start out not knowing anything. 

Truth#4:  We forget that both happiness and storms will come and go and pass.  Again and again. Happiness is such a fleeting, painfully fragile, delicate and wondrous thing. And we forget, as we bask in it's luminous glow, our arms stretched out and up to the welcoming sky, that it will come and go and pass.

Storms, so wild, wicked and dark, as our ship is sinking, ropes lashing in the wind and unsecured sails perilously unfolding; we despair and forget. We forget it will pass. That the heavy suffocating rain will lessen, the clouds will break and the moon will return with stars to guide the way.  

Here is the point; Storms will come all on their own.  Sometimes we may mistakenly steer ourselves into them, sometimes we choose a course that lengthens the duration we ride through them -but storms will come. 

Happiness, while it may seem to 'just happen', happiness is always a choice.  Happiness is in our heads.  Sometimes it is a hard choice, one reached for with grasping hands blinded by pain, loss, or most terribly of all, with regret. 

Happiness was the moment I believed, that night and the nights after, with all I wanted to be; I believed I could and I would figure out how to get out of that situation. And every happiness since then leaves my mortal beating heart shaking with thankfulness to the person inside me trying her best, the man standing beside me and all the people around me reaching out with giving hands.

Remember the light after the storm Reader.  Even if that is all you can do as you hang on to the wheel of your ship, nose into the wind, the world black and your horizon tumbling, remember the light outside of the storm.

'Remember the Light after the Storm'

16" X 20 X .75"

Original Art - Oil Pastels/ Acrylic (Sealed to protect against fading/UV)

Wings in the Air (Original Art)

'Wings in the Air'

24" X 30" X .75" 
Original Fine Art - Acrylic (Sealed to protect against fading/UV)

'Red Fire Dawn' is at Urban Arts Gallery (Salt Lake City, UT)

Friday, 9 May 2014

Urban Arts Gallery  - 137 south Rio Grande Street, Salt Lake City, Utah

Yay for first tries!  

Friday, May 9th I attended CONNECT.  This event occurs every second Friday of each month hosted at Urban Arts Gallery (located in the Gateway mall, SLC, UT), (http://utaharts.org/connect). 

My work, 'Red Fire Dawn' was selected to be displayed for one month, May 9th through June 9th.

My Etsy Shop is now up and running! :) 

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Bike Ride (Original Fine Art)

'Bike Ride'

"20" X "24" X "1.5"
Original Fine Art - Acrylic (Sealed to protect against fading/UV)

Distractions (Original Fine / Contemporary Art)

'Cool Distractions' (left)

16" X 20" X 3/4"'

Original Fine Art - Acrylic (Sealed to protect against fading/UV)

'Warm Distractions' (right)

16" X 20" X 3/4"

Original Fine Art - Acrylic (Sealed to protect against fading/UV)

'Balanced Distractions' (left)

16" X 20" X 3/4"

Original Fine Art - Acrylic (Sealed to protect against fading/UV)

'Measured Distractions' (right)

30" X 24" X 3/4"

Original Fine Art - Acrylic (Sealed to protect against fading/UV)