I’m happy to announce my artwork is officially on 1st dibs website- link below.
This is made possible because of the great collaboration between Curator & Co. & nmcguirestudio. I’m happy to see my art career going to the next level and having the ability to share my talents with a wider audience. Check out the new website where you can officially buy my artwork online. I do commission work and include my website (below), which has examples of commissioned works created for some of my clients.
Autumn is Summer’s last party celebrating a colorful season, so step outside and participate in Mother Nature’s gorgeous grand finale! For me, it’s like the trees are excited to shed the old in a colorful magical way; getting ready for their much-needed hibernation to rejuvenate and start fresh coming spring.
Commando photoziac artwork series statement:
My award-winning Photozaics are inspired by where Van Gogh’s textures meet Ansel Adam’s simplicity near the intersection of Bob Ross’ healing vibes. This technique is a labor-intensive multi-step process and starts with my journey into nature; recording the landscapes that spark my eye whether it be rolling hills or a babbling brook. After modifying the composition, I take the print and head to the stained-glass shop to find matching colors. I cut the glass by hand by taking smaller shards and placing them in a rock tumbler to remove sharp edges while larger pieces are sanded by hand and assembled in the frame. Grouting finishes the artwork allowing the detail of each cut glass shape to add texture to my art. This series I call commando, it’s liberating to see the photo in sync with the frame no boundaries separating these two mediums from dancing: just beautiful fluid flow.
There’s a difference between pretty and beautiful. When someone is pretty, they have a good appearance, but when someone is beautiful, they shine from the inside out. – by Rishikajain.
I am honored to share that I was one of 23 artists chosen to join the Restoring Waters Project at Emma Norton. The project is titled: Heart + Home: Artwork that Heals (A project of ACW and Emma Norton at Restoring Waters).
The link below for more information about this project:
Rainy Lake CalmSleeping Bear grassy BeahOrange WatercolorHarriet Island Eagle
About Emma Norton
Vision statement: Emma Norton Services is a trauma-informed organization that promotes healing and recovery, operating at a scale that brings a full array of resources to women, individuals, and families who have experienced homelessness. Housing and services are exemplary, and offered in collaboration with key community partners.
This year’s photograph Hint of Gold is framed in my Commando Photozaic.
Hint of Gold:
Robert Frost wrote this perfectly: Nothing Gold Can Stay. Nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then the leaf subsides to leaf So Eden Sank to grief, so dawn goes down today. Nothing gold can Stay. This view recharges my soul, I love sitting on my parent’s shoreline watching the sunsets and June didn’t disappoint. There’s no better way to reflect on a beautiful day than watching the sunset, knowing tomorrow is going to be just as amazing. I enjoy my time spent with Mom especially after Dad passed away a few years back. It’s funny how life’s perspectives change after you lose a parent. I know that someday my time witnessing these beautiful sunsets on my parent’s shoreline will end but they will forever be locked inside my heart.
Patiently Waiting comes from two souls that found each other in human form; spending their days together as one. Until one day she passes on separating them into two. She lays patiently waiting for her true love to join her again.
A collection of landscape infrared images of my travels across the US and Canada.
This collection is available for solo shows, exhibitions, and gallery representation. Please feel free to contact me for more information about this collection.
My work is mixed media joining together my two loves of photography and mosaics that I call Photozaics. Just recently I experimented with matte-less print as has been suggested in the past, but this time I listened to Emily Schiffer’s suggestion from a recent portfolio review, and this is the result. This line of photozaics, which I’m calling commando-as for me is liberating to see my photo dancing in sync with the frame.
Four of my Commando photozaics were accepted into Works of Excellence exhibition at The Studio Door gallery. Wolf n Bear will be physically in the gallery; Gateway to Racepoint beach will be on their website and Breakpoint at Racepoint and Forest of Birch will be included in the catalog. Honored and humbled to not have just one accepted but four works accepted into this exhibition.
Wolf n Bear
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while, leaving footprints on our hearts and we are never the same- by Flavia Weedn. This image reminds me of the ones that left their footprints on my soul.
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Gateway to Racepoint Beach
Gateway can offer up an over-welcoming feeling of “come on in”. This scene offers that feeling with a side of warning to those that don’t pay attention to their environment. I don’t mind the locals and will respect their home. If I’m not meant to be in the ocean I will sit quietly on the shore watching a movie of waves play on repeat for my pleasure.
Gateway to Race point Beach
Breakpoint at Racepoint Beach
Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free. – Christy Ann Martine. Sitting at the ocean’s beach I spend hours just zoning out to the sounds and everchanging views of waves crashing the shore to help recharge my soul. It’s nature’s symphony that warms my heart.
Breakpoint matte less
Forest of Birch
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“In Celtic Mythology the silver birch tree is sacred and symbolizes new beginnings and protection.” This quote speaks to me and helping me understand why I love Birch trees and my Irish Heritage. This image was taken at Jay Cooke State Park in February 2012 just a few months before this region received an unpreceded amount of rain in a 24-hour period; forever changing the landscape of this park forever.
Daisies are a true sign of spring: A lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.
Sleeping Bear Beach photozaic 16x14x1
The Ashininaabek people used the Mother Bear as a landmark and tell the story about how she came to be there. Long ago, along the Wisconsin shoreline, a mother bear and her two cubs were driven into Lake Michigan by a raging forest fire. The bears swam for many hours, but soon the cubs tired. Mother bear reached the shore first and climbed to the top of a high bluff to watch and wait for her cubs. The cubs drowned within sight of the shore. The Great Spirit created two islands to mark the spot where the cubs disappeared and then created a solitary dune to represent the eternal vigil of a mother bear. These images reminded me of the gulf coast just minus the salty ocean air.
I watched as morning fog kissed the landscape, slowly burning off showing Lake Michigan’s beautiful teal-blue waters. While I was exploring Sleeping Bear Dunes, I had the story above playing around in my head; carefully documenting the landscape with both color and infrared cameras.
