Paint Metal & Mud's Artist of the Week: Tim Hintze

Paint Metal & Mud's Artist of the Week: Tim Hintze

A native of the north woods of Wisconsin, Tim Hintze has dabbled in woodworking for decades, but rekindled his passion for wood after retiring in 2018 from a career in meat processing and sausage making.

He started his retirement business, Table Top Timbers, in his home workshop just outside Whitefish, Montana. Tim specializes in one of a kind cutting and charcuterie boards, and makes a variety of wood products, including cribbage boards, serving trays, wine bottle and glass holders, and coasters. You'll find a variety of domestic hardwoods in Tim's products, such as maple, walnut and cherry, as well as exotic woods like purple heart, bubinga and wenge.

Find Tim's beautiful work along with our other talented local artists at 8 1st Street E, Suite 104 in downtown Kalispell. #supportlocalartists #kalispellmontana

 

Paint, Metal & Mud's Artist of the Week: Michelle Hoag

Paint, Metal & Mud's Artist of the Week: Michelle Hoag

"I am a professional wildlife and landscape photographer, based in Kalispell, Montana. My original passion was capturing the beautiful landscapes of the Pacific Northwest with images being published as photo essays for local newspapers, charity calendars and on front covers of magazines.

It wasn’t until my husband and I started exploring the national parks, that I found true enjoyment photographing wildlife. Made sense, I am an animal lover! I began updating my camera gear to include telephoto lenses. Attended a week long educational workshop in Jackson, WY for wildlife and landscape photography. I also hired a well known wildlife photographer based in Jackson, WY for a one-on-one session. His first questions to me; what is your objective for our day of photography? My answer; see and photograph grizzly bears. We had a successful day of early morning landscape photography and in the afternoon photographing a Grizzly Sow with her new cub. From that point forward, I have been specializing in photographing the amazing diversity of wildlife and landscape of the national parks, local state parks and wildlife management areas. Every time I go out, I strive to make beautiful images, be an ethical photographer and behave respectfully in the field." - from www.michellehoagphotography.com

Find Michelle's incredible work along with our other talented artists at 8 1st Street E, Suite 104 in downtown Kalispell. #supportlocalartists #wildlifephotography

 

Paint Metal & Mud's Artist: Pia Eaves

Pia Eaves was born and raised in Nurnberg, Germany, a city known since the Middle Ages for its goldsmiths & their finely crafted wares. Pia is a Jeweler at the Paint Metal and Mud Art Gallery in downtown Kalispell. Pia found her home in the beautiful Flathead Valley, an area reminding her so much of where she grew up in Southern Germany. After running her own successful business for nearly two decades, she decided it was time for a new adventure. Pia enrolled at FVCC to learn the art of goldsmithing. She brings to her work high quality and meticulous attention to detail that goldsmiths of her first home are famous for worldwide. Pia's love for dogs, cats, and horses is now her inspiration to create jewelry for pets and people who love them.

Find Pia's work along with our other incredible artists at 8 1st Street E, Suite 104 in downtown Kalispell.

 

Paint Metal & Mud's Artist: Michaela Eaves

"Montana isn't a place you can live or visit and be unaffected by your surroundings," says Michaela Eaves. Michaela is a Mixed Media artist at the Paint Metal and Mud Art Gallery in downtown Kalispell. She is a graduate of Flathead High School and attend FVCC, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Oklahoma City University. She achieved a BFA, graduating with a double major in illustration and graphic design. Most of Michaela's work is mixed traditional media such as watercolor and color pencil, though she is currently working with experimental medias as well.

Find Michaela's work along with our other incredible artists at 8 1st Street E, Suite 104 in downtown Kalispell.

 

Paint Metal & Mud's Artist: Vernon Anderson

Vernon Anderson from Columbia Falls is a member of the Paint, Metal & Mud artists cooperative, showcasing and offering his artwork for purchase at the Art Gallery in downtown Kalispell. In his retirement, Vernon has delved into the realm of oil painting, focusing primarily on depicting landscapes of the Montana outdoors and Glacier National Park. His intricate paintings serve as the visual accompaniment to a series of books titled "A Year in the Life," authored by him, which narrate the tales of various beloved animals in Montana.

Find Vernon's work along with our other incredible artists at 8 1st Street E, Suite 104 in downtown Kalispell.

 

Your Kalispell Downtown Association invites you and your friends and family to an evening in Historic Downtown Kalispell. 

Friday night, February 9th the Chocolate Affair, promises to be an evening to remember. Walk through various downtown businesses tasting a variety of chocolate treats and shopping for your special valentine. 

Shop, taste and judge the chocolate from 5:00 – 8:00 PM. Treat yourself to a beer at one of our great breweries, a glass of wine, or a great meal, appetizers and drinks at one of our wonderful downtown Kalispell restaurants or bars.

Stop by Paint Metal & Mud to taste our delicious Rum Balls. We will will treats for the kiddos too! Pick up a locally made Valentines gift for your sweetie too! We are located at 8 First Street E, Suite 104 in beautiful downtown Kalispell.

 

 New Year, and New Artists!

Thank you for another great year supporting local art and artists! Will will be open New Year's Eve until 4pm. Swing by to wish our current fiber artist Monique Kleinhans well, as it will be her last day in the gallery with us! (Not to fear if you have become addicted to her lovely creations however, as her work will still be available downtown Kalispell at Sassafras gallery on Main Street!)

We hope you have a wonderful New Years' celebration and can't wait to welcome you back into the gallery starting Tuesday Jan 3rd (as we are switching over to our winter hours Tues-Sat)

We are also excited to welcome some new artists into our co-op:

Joe Roberts: https://www.woodcraftbykate-joe.com/ and fiber artist Maureen Louden!

Father's Day Salute! June 17th from 4-7pm

 

With Father's day coming up, we are celebrating our four male artists here in our Co-op! Join us for a fun reception on Friday June 17th from 4 to 7. There will be food, fun as well the opportunity to pick up some locally-made art perfect for Father's day! Paint Metal and Mud is located downtown Kalispell at 8 First Street East, Suite 104.

New Artists at Paint Metal & Mud!

Have you stopped in to see the gallery lately? 

If not, you're in for a treat. We have been fortunate to welcome a number of new artists into our membership the past few months; including pottery by Bob Cass and Metal Art by Gene McDaniel.  

Be sure to enjoy the warmer spring weather, and take a stroll downtown Kalispell--and swing in to see this fine work in person!

8 1st Street East, Downtown Kalispell

Suite 104

Chocolate Affair 2022

 Swing on by the gallery on Friday, February 11th from 5pm-8pm 

for the Chocolate Affair!

Vote for your favorite chocolate dessert while entering to win a gift certificate to be used at participating locations in Downtown Kalispell! It's a great opportunity to enjoy some tasty treats while while falling in love with locally made art!

We hope to see you there!

Welcome New Member Artist: Tim Hintze

A native of the north woods of Wisconsin, Tim Hintze has dabbled in woodworking for decades, but rekindled his passion for wood after retiring in 2018 from a career in meat processing and sausage making.

He started his retirement business, Table Top Timbers, in his home workshop just outside of Whitefish, Montana.

Tim specializes in one-of-a-kind cutting and charcuterie boards, and makes a variety of wood products, including cribbage boards, serving trays, wine bottle and glass holders and coasters. You’ll find a variety of domestic hardwoods in Tim’s products, such as maple, walnut and cherry, as well as exotic woods like purple heart, bubinga and wenge.

Give and Take Tree

This year for the holidays we are doing something a little different and a lot of fun! We have a 'Give-and-take' tree* outside our new gallery location (8 First Street East). If you have a little extra ornament that you would like to share with someone, simply hang it on the tree outside our gallery. If you are needing a little extra cheer this year, then please come and choose an ornament to hang on your own tree, (or even in your car!) to act as a little extra light and love this season. *please be kind and leave the tree so that everyone can enjoy it!

While you are sharing or shopping, we hope you'll come in to see what our collection of local artists have created to help celebrate our beautiful community and the area we all love to call home.

We are Moving!

Have you heard? We're moving at the end of February.

But not far...Just a short walk across Main street to

8 1st Street EAST.

And soon we'll be telling you all about some of the new local artists who are joining us! Stay Tuned!

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Paint Metal and Mud Special Offers for December 2020

Special Offers 

for the month of December 2020 

at Paint Metal and Mud

 10 % Off *

Ardith Karlsen, Lois Sturgis, Paul Yancey, John Wdowin 

Raette Meredith, and Mimi O'Neil

Buy one pair of earrings get a 2nd pair 50% off Pia Eaves 

20% off John Wdowin Wooden Vessels priced at $200 or more. 

*discounts not applied to greeting cards

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12 Artists: Monique Kleinhans

Hello all! My name is Monique Kleinhans and I'm the 12th Elf in our 12 Artists of Christmas this year.

My work at the gallery is made mostly of fibers and fabric. I combine traditional quilting with art techniques to create both pictorial and abstract pieces that can hang on your wall, dress your table or even wrap you up in a warm hug while your read in your favorite chair or are nestled all snug in your bed. Always looking for ways to use each and every ounce of fabric and accoutrements, I also make quilted greeting cards and Christmas ornaments that are miniature thread paintings placed on old wooden spools.

My love for working in the medium as well as experimenting within the craft, came directly from one of the most wonderful people on this planet....My Mother! She is still one of my favorite people to experiment new ideas or techniques with and an inspiration to always keep learning and dreaming.

You'll find me at the gallery tomorrow morning, or if you're not able to swing by, you can always visit me at my website: www.ladybugscabin.com

I hope you have a very Merry Christmas, wonderful holidays, and a New Year full of art!

12 Artists: Linda Sole

Hello there! I'm Linda Sole, another of the 12 artists of Christmas here at Paint Metal &  Mud. 
Along with the jewelry making I have done to get ready for the Christmas season, I have been dabbling with air drying (two to three days depending on the temp and humidity) enamel over wood products. The ones I like doing the most are the wood cutout ornaments or wall plaques. I have been buying commercial made colors, but find they are discontinued or the formulas change which makes consistency tough. So, I began experimenting with making the liquid colors myself to make my own fanciful colors. Sometimes I come back to the studio to check on the pieces' progress after the drying process (which takes about eight hours to show the true colors) are looking and find a yuck - :( well that didn't work to WOW! :))) how cool is that? I also have been surfacing carved pieces and find the three-D color working out pretty well. I get to play with found objects like buttons and feathers to enhance the pieces. I have several of these unique pieces at Paint Metal and Mud and on my website mooncradlestudio.com. 

Hope you all have a happy holiday season filled with love and family.

12 Artists: Pia Eaves

I'm Pia Eaves, jewelry artist and co-founder of Paint, Metal, and Mud which has been a part of Kalispell for 17 years now. While I've been in Montana for almost 35 years, I was born and raised in Germany.

From an early age, I learned to reuse and recycle everything and to value craftsmanship in what I make. To this day I love making something new out of old. Sometimes I'll upcycle a cymbal from a drum set to make some fun earrings, or using a bit of leftover electrical wiring to make a bracelet. When you give my work as a gift, you're also giving a gift to the environment as well as supporting a local artist.

For my day, Thursday, December 20, I'm offering a deal to help with your last minute Christmas shopping. Buy one pair of earrings and get a second half price. And while you enjoy picking out a special gift or two, or maybe one for yourself, enjoy some hot cider and cookies made by yours truly. 

See you in the shop, and as we say in Germany, Frohe Weihnachten (Merry Christmas)!

12 Artists: Larry Phan

Seasons Greeting!

I live and work in the Flathead valley. As a potter my work is focused on food and drink. My forms range from coffee mugs to large serving bowls. All my work is made with high fire stoneware that will last a life time of use.

Come in and receive 10% off your entire purchase. Only a couple of days left for this discount.

12 Artists: Judy Petterson

Judy is a photographer with a twist.
Using filters and post work on her images she creates the look of paintings from photos.

Check out some of her work here: