Montana Rock
Creations
Artists: Josh and Mary Inabnit
Montana
Rock Creations originated as a vision by Josh’s father, Steve Inabnit. In
the late 1990’s Josh, his brother Jeremy, and Steve set out to develop their
first candle holder. "After several broken rocks and other
challenges, a simple rock was transformed into a beautiful candle holder that
remains a center piece display in our home today."
Steve
turned his hobby into a business in 2001, and expanded it to include a variety of
functional art for the home: lamps, candle holders, salt and pepper holders
among many other items. Over the next several years numerous products
were developed and occasionally shown at various art shows and farmers markets
around the region.
In
2009, Steve passed away unexpectedly and a year later Josh and his wife Mary
moved to the Flathead Valley from Missoula. With much encouragement from
friends and family, they decided to start designing and continue the work in
Steve’s honor.
"We've
created our own style and flavor to these functional rock art pieces while
developing new ideas along the way. We’ve enjoyed sharing our work at the
Whitefish Farmers Market and at several art shows throughout the past summer
and are now thrilled to be showing our work at Paint, Metal, & Mud!"
