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My Artwork: Digital Paintings & Mixed Media Pieces

Maureen — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:04:00 +0000

Most of these are available as limited edition prints, framed or unframed, in various sizes up to 36″ wide. I use archival inks on German Hannemuehle Etching paper. These are gorgeous printed extra large.
Please email me or comment below if you would like to purchase a print. Thank you.

spring melancholy

Maureen — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:53:00 +0000

spring melancholy, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

spring melancholy

my muse …

she hides in a forest
under layers of
leaves,
leftover
from winter

not so sure
she wants
to emerge,
yet
compelled

to awaken
by the bright
singing of
sparrow
and siskin

and roots
sucking water
expounding on
spring’s
insufferable
cheerfulness

Little Bird Art Studio is Open

Maureen — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:50:00 +0000

I recently fell in love with a wonderful oddly shaped space on a business-neighboorhood street about five blocks from our house. I have rented the space, moved my art “stuff” into it and am in the process of setting it up as an art studio. I’m planning to spend about half a day there every day — with no computer, no telephone, and no client-meetings. Just time to devote to my artwork, something I have been craving for years.

So … I am going to be sharing photos of the progress of “setting up” as well as artworks in-progress as time passes. I’ll probably start posting here on Land of Little Rain, but watch for a whole new blog and Etsy store for Little Bird Studio at some point in the near future. I hope to begin offering my work for sale on the web, through my Etsy store real soon.

In the meantime, I have a solo-exhibit opening next week in a small showroom space in downtown Helena. I will be exhibiting 6 of my limited edition large prints for 3 months.

I also plan to have a regular open-studio evenings beginning in a month or two. Those might be every other week or just one a month.

Thank you to all of my blog readers and flickr commenters who have, over the years, encouraged me to get back into my artwork in a serious way. Your feedback and inspiration have been invaluable. Thank you!

Relaxing after setting up 3rd annual woodworking exhibit

Maureen — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:30:00 +0000

When we finished setting up the exhibit of the Helena Woodworkers’ Guild last week, we paused for a few minutes to admire the different pieces of excellent craftsmanship in the show.

Our opening reception was Friday evening, a smashing success, though I’m glad it’s over. Took alot of effort to get to that point — effort by many guild members and a few of their partners (like me.)

I maintain the guild’s website as a favor to my husband, Tim, the current guild president. Naturally I’m proud of Tim’s beautiful furniture…. but I am also impressed by the many other talented woodworkers we have in Helena, Montana — a small city with a big arts culture. Their annual show just keeps getting better every year.

If you are interested in seeing some wonderful woodworking even if you can’t make it to Helena during November to see it in person, please enjoy this slideshow of the exhibit on the Guild’s website, Sawdust and Shavings, along with a collection of photos I shot during the reception. Comments are welcome either here or on Sawdust and Shavings. Thank you very much for looking.

Introducing Painter Photographer, Fleur-Ange Lamothe

Maureen — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:50:00 +0000

“Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice, a silent sermon moving me to the depths, touching my heart, and stirring up within my soul a yearning to give my all.” – Mary Webb, 1917

The above quote comes to me through Fleur-Ange Lamothe, a Canadian artist who blends photography and painting to create visionary art. Lamothe used Mary Webb’s words as the sole description for one of her elegant photos of trees. Yet the quote could as well describe Fleur-Ange’s entire approach to life and to communicating her vision of Nature into powerful, transformative art.

Fleur-Ange’s art is part performance, part canvas or film and part installation; she is all about communication and connection; counterpoint and balance; birth, death and rebirth. She translates her fertile psyche’s impulses and emotions into works of tangible beauty that challenge her viewers to look (and feel) under the surface of things.

I have been a “follower” of Fleur-Ange Lamothe on Flickr for the last couple of years. Recently she pulled all of the photos of hers that I had “faved” into one collection called MR’s Favorites. It is an understatement to say I was captivated by the slideshow of that set … watching a fluid river of incredible beauty float and dissolve on my computer monitor. The slideshow is so worth watching — with 66 photos playing 4 seconds each it takes only four and a half minutes to watch (unless, like me, you keep pausing the show to drink in the beauty every frame or so.)

Whenever I spend enough time to really look deeply at a piece by Fleur-Ange, I get the sense that I am on a journey with an old soul, with someone who has an inborn sense of connection to all of life, who sees even the stones as living beings. I get the sense that I am walking with a kindred soul, someone who has seen into the very heart of the Earth and who is striving with sincerity and courage to help others touch that place of healing as well.

Someday I really have to see her paintings in person. Actually, it would be wonderful to meet Fleur-Ange in person! In the meantime, since I can’t just hop on a plane and fly to Ontario, I satisfy myself by cruising through her flickr sets — on slideshow mode — at least once a week. And I have many of her images on my computer as a screen saver. I’m fortunate she is so generous with her photography.

I am honored to be able to introduce my friend, Fleur-Ange Lamothe, who is also an accomplished artist, to the folks who read my blogs. I hope you enjoy her photography and paintings as much as I do.

to see the individual photos enlarged, click the titles below:

Find more of Fleur-Ange’s photos at Wildflower Watch, or on her (Eglantine) Flickr stream

Portland 1st Thursday Art Update

Maureen — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:20:00 +0000

G abe has posted an update and a bunch of photos (shot by Arian Stevens and others) of his one-man show during the First Thursday Art Walk in Portland.

photos by Arian Stevens

Check out the live painting event at Berbati’s with Gabe Shaughnessy painting his impressions of local d.j. Cool Hand Luke who spins his magic for club-goers and art-lookers alike. Sounds like the opening was a success. Here’s an album with all his pics from the opening night.