Alaskan Raven Studio

Art in Alaska. Story of an Alaskan artist.

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my story

I was a little girl in the branches of a treehouse.
Just a few boards wedged into some branches, really.
I remember leaning back on the tree trunk,
my legs dangling in empty air, a breeze in my hair.
Robins, Bluejays and squirrels shared my tree with me.
We watched the bees on the flowers in my father’s garden and inhaled the sweet smell of summer.

Then came high school.

The other kids knew what to say to each other
when they gathered in the gym after school. I wanted to walk in but I didn’t know what to say and the clever kids were always
laughing, laughing, laughing.

I didn’t want it to be at me.

I traded my tree house for an easel.
I knew how to have a conversation with a canvas.
A canvas is like a book, except that shapes and colors
are the words.

I was surprised when others were able to hear the stories
in my canvases. It seems they, too, were struggling to get
by without a script.

A canvas and a palette full of paint allows me to speak
with others. With a brush in my hand, I can share my
robins, bluejays, squirrels and bees. I can share my
tree house and the flowers in my fathers garden.

I can share Alaska.
I can reveal fascinating people.
I can wrestle polar bears.

You can too.

To face a bear is to face your own fear.

I paint bears for you to face.
I paint motion holding still.
I paint things that surprise me.

Do they surprise you, too?

What could be more surprising
than to live in a land of midnight sun?

Do something unexpected today. Surprise yourself.

And I will tell you why I sign my paintings, “Raven.”

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Raven Ramblings

A Poet’s Homestead

He built the cabin on his homestead in 1947. Lived off the land. Trapped. Survived harsh winters. He was trained as an artist and planned to paint in Alaska but his paints froze so he ‘drew’ with words instead. Prose and poetry earned him awards. Fellowships. National recognition. My friend and I hike around his […]

Prince of the Arctic

Kroma Bear: Prince of the Arctic 6′ x 4′ painting on Sky Cloth by Raven $1500. sold Prince lumbered all the way down to Dallas, Texas to be with his new Ravenistas. I am thrilled they are giving him a good home. I love Texas. My dad was born in that big and beautiful state. […]

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contact me with questions or comments

Alaskan Raven Studio
PO Box 80231
Fairbanks, Alaska 99708
USA
alaskanblackbird@yahoo.com

 

Represented by:
Well Street Art Co.
1302 Well Street
Fairbanks, Alaska
907 452-6169

Stephan Fine Arts
939 West 5th Ave.
Anchorage, Alaska 99501
USA
(907) 274-5009
http://www.stephanfinearts.com/

more about Raven

I ventured to Alaska before there was an oil pipeline and fell in love with the gnarly spruce trees, intense weather and mountains I could touch. Very different from the landscape in St. Louis. I was looking for different. The spruce trees: those scraggy, wizened, lanky conifers danced onto the first page of my sketch […]

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