It has been a long time coming but the shop update is LIVE!

I have added some of my favorite pieces from works on paper to paintings on wood and canvas.  I also created my first card sets which were so fun to make and are a way to buy mini originals to share or frame.  I've  made a few changes in the shop: adding some floral photo prints and releasing prints for a last chance.  Once they are gone, they are gone.  

I've talked about this update for so long now and I am so proud and excited to share these with you.  Shop updates are so fun but they require so much work to get off the ground.  I am raising funds to sustain my studio practice into the next few months.  All the money I make from the sales of my art help me continue making and pursue opportunities to learn.   

As my loyal newsletter subscribers,

here is a discount code for you that

will last from

Sunday 5/1 to Sunday 5/8. 

15% OFF DISCOUNT CODE: 

MAYFLOWERS

(cause april showers bring may flowers...)

7 NEW CARD SETS

SMALL ORIGINALS

FLORAL PHOTO PRINTS

APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS

"Bridge Messy, Emerge Ignited" at Frontier in Brunswick

ArtVan's show is OPEN from April 27th to July 30th. 

50% of the profit on my piece will go ArtVan to help keep the van rolling,
 

bringing expressive arts to children and communities around Maine.   

My theme was "Bridge" which led to my painting

"Pathway through the sky"

While creating this piece, I was thinking about connections and pathways visually and spiritually. I was thinking about a bridge as the connection of many forms. What bridges do we create or destroy? Do we use them to become closer or as a form of escape? I was thinking of visual ways I was bridging and creating connections in the forms and colors of my painting. I started this from a very minimal sketch that I really loved and hoped to recreate, but I ended up allowing myself to respond and build upon that instead of trying to constrain myself to recreate it. But I think that’s what BRIDGE can come to represent. there is no outright starting point and how you choose to connect and respond is completely open, and somewhat infinite. I see a glowing burnt orange pathway peeking through the painting, connecting a corner to another and back to my original idea, but there are also different colors reacting to one another and whichever path your eye follows is okay.

It's the last couple of weeks to view ARTPM at the Buoy Gallery in Kittery, ME and Rumpus at Engine in Biddeford, ME.  Thank you so much for reading and viewing! Spread the word on the shop launch, and be sure to check out my new work from 2022. 

I love hearing what you think of the newsletter and new work so feel free to reply! 

<3 Raquel