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AN INTRODUCTION TO OUR COLLECTIVE..Hi, My Name is Rachel Houseman I am the founder of Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery. It is a pleasure serving our community and delivering unique artwork featuring diverse and sacred themes.

"Long live the creative spirit in all of us!"
 

                "Upaya"      17 x 24      Stained Glass

"Desert Wildflower Goddess"  24x17   Acrylic on Canvas

"Gemini"  17x 27" Mixed Mediums on Wood

 "Flower of Life" 24" x 48" Oil on Panel

"The World in Transition"   17x11"  Pastel on Paper

"Ravens and Prickly Pear"  12x35   Acrylic on Canvas

"White Tara"    24x 35"  Pure Pigments & Gold on Canvas

Detail of White Tara's Face.

Spiral Necklace Copper, Silver and Semiprecious Stone

Ladder Necklace, Copper, Silver and Yellow Garnet

 

"Grand Canyon Sunset"   24x22"   Acrylic on Canvas

"Seahorse"         24x17"           Colored Pencil on Paper

Funky Fantastic Magnets Made with Real Block Prints!

"Amphibians & Peach Trees" 19x24  Collograph Print

"Light Waves"  24 x22" Photography in Motion
"Megalaton" 50' Metal Sculpture Aaron helped create at Goddard College.

Rachel Houseman

Artist/Art Therapist/Art Director Eye on the Mountain Gallery Taos, NM

Rachel is a graduate of Prescott College with a Masters Degree in Art Therapy. Rachel loves to paint the desert landscape, human figures and also enjoys the meditative quality of stained glass crafting and beading jewelry with stones that hold healing qualities.  She also works through the medium of art and healing with artists in the community promoting original vision and cultural understanding.
Rachel creates her art from visions and dreams.  She believes that: "Art is not merely an extra 'addition,' but a necessity for human survival."  Much of Rachel's artwork seeks to reconcile a perceived loss of connection that humans have with the natural world. These paintings and artworks are prayers for healing the disconnect and guiding us to our true center, as beings who strive to sustain beauty, peace, understanding and balance within our world. In the words of an influence of hers, NM native Martin Pretchel,  "It will be creative thought that saves us from ourselves." 

 Stevon Lucero
By Tana Lucero
Stevon Lucero is a vibrant, unique, and valuable member of the Denver Community. He has lived and worked in Denver since 1976 when he moved his small family from Laramie, Wyoming to ‘the big city.' With a unique vision and voice, he quickly became an active participant in the growing Denver art scene. He helped to create the dynamic Latino arts organization, CHAC, which has anchored and facilitated the exciting revitalization of Santa Fe Drive.
His art and his personality have inspired generations of artists. He has lovingly, generously provided his experience and advice to dozens and dozens of young Creatives looking for a mentor, and not just in his field of visual art. He has been a beacon and an inspiration to young writers, musicians and actors, as well. Articulate and thoughtful, he helps both young and old people to learn to express their inner artist; to appreciate the magic and beauty that exists in any act of creation; to recognize the vital importance that every voice brings to the community table. He is loved and respected by so many people in this community. His art, his philosophies, and his compassion have made him an asset to everyone in this city, regardless of race or status.
He has contributed his passion and love, via his art, to Denver and the world for nearly his entire adult life. His paintings have been presented to world leaders as gestures of friendship and unity. In my own mind, he is something of a landmark; a human entity which is more than the sum of his parts. He represents an iconic belief in the powers of the human imagination and a resounding declaration of our ability to achieve our dreams.
 

Anne Legge

Artist/Cartoonist

Prescott, AZ 

"I create original woodworks that tell the story of everyday life and I try to set the scene of events that exist with or without notice. Some of the works are just backgrounds that people travel through. Others are capturing the daily routine in a person’s life. The images are from my past and present, places I have lived, visited, or are currently experiencing. I want the viewer to imagine they are able to see what lies in the lives of others.  I create woodworks that are fun, inspiring, and original. I add found objects to some of my works that better tell the story. The end result is a glimpse into the world others may experience."

Reagan Schmissrauter 

Artist/Musician

Dallas, TX

Reagan has many talents and enjoys making art that inspires.  He was born in Chattanooga, TN and has been an art student off and on through out his life.  He uses traditional training and visionary inspiration to create his works.  he loves to paint with oils and also enjoys making sketches to inspire his art. He is a student of Sacred Geometry and Herbalism.

Judd SchiffmanArtist/Activist  Prescott, AZ  Artist, Judd Schiffman grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and graduated from Classical
High School in 2000.  Since then, Judd has traveled throughout the United States and has spent six months volunteering in Zimbabwe.  While in Zimbabwe, he helped to initiate the
Friends of the Honde Valley project during the summer of 2002, and is now the United States co-coordinator of FOTHV.
Judd is currently reaching people through his work at Yavapai College.

  ArtistSanta Fe, NM Art for me is about speaking a truth, not as dogma, but as one might dream of being a star or a tree in another life. It is about feeling the texture of poetry in the celestial chorus of grass and cloud. It is also about praying, when in great need, for life and feeling. Folk art, per my definition, is an expression broadly defined to include surrealism and abstract art as these artistic genres, like geniis greater in stature than any individual artist, embracing the passion and spirit of folk art that was itself a jinn of place, communal space and states of mind. Into this embrace I join my creative journey, beginning with self-expression and then leaving self behind.

Lalman Lama Master Thanka PainterKathmandu, Nepal
Lalman Lama was born in the Newari Region of Nepal.  His grandfather was a master painter that began to teach Lalaman how to paint traditional thanka paintings at age 10. At the age of 13 he was discovered and was considered to be a true master  talent.Since then, Lalman Lama has been published around the world in posters and calenders.  He has worked with international figures of Buddhist  studies such as Robert Beer.  He currently has an art galleryin Kathmandu, Nepal  and paints thankas in the sacred manner.  Each layer of paint is prayed over, each brush made by hand, all pigments are hand crushed, and even the gold leaf is also created by hand. 

 Artist/MetalsmithAustin, TX  Artist, Chad Mote specializes in hand forged

      
Bill JohnsonArtist/Art TeacherBagdad, AZBill is an artist and art teacher.  he loves to paint the desert, especially sites along Canyon de Chelly in Northern Arizona. 

  
 Renee MillerArtist/Muscian  Prescott Valley, AZ  Renee is an artist and muscian origianally from New York City.  She seeks to support endangered speciaies of the oceans and has been researching rare and endangered sea-life for her subject matter.  She is also interested in metaphysical designs and symbols.

 
Kelly RobergeArtist/Art TherapistJerome, AZ Kelly lives in a small, mountain- top mining village in Northern Arizona called Jerome.  This is not your average city and Kelly is not your average artist.  She is a print maker, leather worker, painter and dreamer.  She educates and heals using Art Therapy as a medium.  She has a sense of adventure and a sense of humor that are as healing as her funky images and healing skills! 

   Artist & Master Print MakerSaugatuck, MI "I grew up on a hobbie farm with chickens, sheep, horses, ponies, rabbits, geese, dogs and cats and was allowed to have every animal I wanted as long as I did my chores.  The time and labor required in keeping horses comes to mind when I reflect on my choice of printmaking as an area of study and work as an aritst. The process requires both physical and mental labor, and a lot of ground work.  Also, many of the momeories and stories I use as a source of material when creating images go back to the time when my life was dedicated to the care of animals. I almost always draw from memory and imagination and dreams are a source.  Agiculture, death and rebirth, harvest and cycles are all themes in my work.  Fossil imagry represents the death of thoughts, ideas and stories. I intend to tell my stoires using this process of creating and combining printed images."

Aaron Jones

Artist/Musician/Blacksmith

 Aaron Jones calls himself an"Art Technologist" this translates that he is a true Modern Renaissance man.. an ordained priest, visual artist, photographer, musician, poet, sculptor, performance artist, blacksmith and visionary technology designer  Aaron studied art with many fine artists, craftsmen,and has apprenticed with blacksmiths. He has been making art and  functional sculptures for over 15years.  He grew up in Vermont, an area flooded with a wide variety of craftspeople.  Drawing from the inspiration from nature and technologies of the future, he considers the connections between art and technology essential to the future of human evolution.