12 Artists of Christmas: Lois Sturgis

Today in the gallery as a part of our 12 Artists of Christmas, Lois is doing a raffle on one of her beautiful watercolor prints!

Your choice of print if you're the lucky winner!

(here are just a few samples of her work!)

Reasons that we are Thankful...

As we approach Thanksgiving this week and the launch into the Holiday and Christmas season we wanted to take a moment to list a few reasons of why we are thankful.

Our artist community:
Being part of an artist co-op affords us unique opportunities to learn and grow not only our creative work but our ability to reach out to customers and participate in events difficult to navigate as individual artists. We value and celebrate each other's artwork and achievements and enjoy the benefits of having our own gallery within Paint Metal and Mud.

This year we are also thankful that we have two new artists to welcome into our co-op! We would like to welcome Philip from Philip Granrud Photography and Judy Petterson. Both work in photography but in completely different ways! We hope you'll stop by the check out their work (and be sure to like and follow Philip's page on facebook if you enjoy having beautiful images show up on your computer screen!

 

The beauty that surrounds us daily.
We are so fortunate to live in the Flathead Valley and be reminded everywhere we turn just how precious our natural resources are. We are thankful that more and more people are seeing the value in celebrating these vistas and being able to share them with travelers when they come to visit. (As well as the art that reminds them of their trip when it's time to return home.)

And last, but certainly not least--we are thankful for YOU!
Thank you for your patronage, your support, your conversations about your homes and travels, your enjoyment of our work and for sharing our art with those you love.

We will be offering sales and specials through-out the holiday season and we hope that you'll come by and enjoy some wonderful and tasty goodies with us during the December art walk (December 1st!) as well as during our '12 Artists of Christmas' specials leading up toward Dec 25th.

Happy New Year! and New Guest Artist!

We hope you are all staying warm and comfy in this chilly start to the New Year!  The gallery remains toasty and full of art that is sure to bring you comfort!  

Need a new calendar to keep track of the days to come? Grab one of John Ashley's Glacier Park After Dark calendars that are not only full of his beautiful (and award winning) night time photography but also includes interesting scientific facts, details on events through the year that you might want to take a peak at!  (Did you know there is going to be a solar eclipse in August this year?!)








If you're looking to keep yourself warm in style, pour some cocoa or your favorite hot drink into one of Cheryl's or Joanna's beautiful mugs!






Or if wrap yourself up in a beautiful hand made quilt from Monique.  Who says that art can't also be functional!

While you're visiting be sure to check out our newest Guest Artist: Ron Kelly

Ron developed this decorative and pictorial mosaic style by laying precious and exotic materials into or onto a ground-work of solid wood. the intarsia wood decoration method dates back to the fifteenth century Germany and Italy, where the ancient art of intarsia was first used to create beautiful works of art from wood, inspiring both marquetry and inlay. Ron combines these past methods of art design with wood color and grain to produce the desired effect, adding a three dimensional element to each of his wildlife creations. Each art piece is an original design using color, grain of wood and style to create a unique wood masterpiece.