The Quest

 Featured image: Roller Coaster Ride

“It is not the agony of the quest, but the rapture of the revelation” Joseph Campbell

Truth

 Featured image: Leap of Faith

“Truths never change, only their historical context.”

James Nathan Muir

Your and Yours Alone

 Featured image: Bottlebrush Waterlily

You as a person must do your thinking, learning and development of a system you can live by.  For me, it is a system of how I relate to nature. And, in turn, how this thinking translates into who I am and how I think and create as an artist.  

It’s hard work and many would rather not do the work, but you cannot be you until you do.

The way you think, learn, and develop should be yours and yours alone.

No Trace

 Featured image: Eagle's Nest, River and Terns

Watching two 

birds soar

within the energy of an

air current.

Their movement is

wonderful, delightful, 

so glorious.  And

the beauty of it all

is that their

movement leaves

no trace.  

Join us for the Northwoods Art Tour October 6-8, 2023

 

Tiny Lapis Ribbon

Watermedia on clayboard

30x30

$1500

“Lapis Ribbon”

 blue as the sky

tiny lapis ribbon

                tied around her neck

inspires her, gives her courage,

magnifies  her creativity

                awakens her senses

gives her peace

 

From the Earth

Watermedia on clayboard

30x60

$2200

I love to look into a geode that has been cracked and opened and look into its beautiful center of glory, its hidden crystal gemstones. You know we are all like a geode. We have a center of glory that are our hidden gemstones. 

Always allow others to see your magnificent gleaming crystals. And let them tell your story.

This painting “From the Earth,” is of a cliff wall of quartz, solid quartz in northern Canada. It is all about the wonderful. The earth is filled with so many magnificent layers.  This work is about the layer of quartz and its crystals and crystal formations that rose to the top layer. I felt so special to be able to touch it and walk on it.  Behind this beautiful wall was a field of wild, edible mushroom-colored gooseberries.  The solid quartz wall and the field of delicate squish-able berries historically tell a story of time and what we have all done and felt now and in the past that tell our story and the story of the earth and change. 

The Northwoods Art Tour is right around the corner!

 

The Northwoods Art Tour is right around the corner, happening this weekend, October 6-7-8! Join me all weekend long, Friday through Sunday, from 10 AM to 5 PM, and explore the wonderful world of art. To get your full guide and tour map, click here: https://christinealfery.com/pages/northwoods-art-tour-2023 Let's make this Northwoods Art Tour an unforgettable experience together! See you there!

Northwoods Art Tour

October 3, 2023 

The Northwoods Art Tour is this coming weekend.  October 6-7-8.  My studio will also be open on Thursday, October 5th, by appointment. The hours for all 4 days, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday are from 10-5. Just follow this link and schedule an appointment: HERE for Thursday.

If you need directions just ask when you schedule. Make sure I confirm your appointment.

I will be sharing all my new work – and the work I am creating for my solo exhibition at New Visions Art Gallery in the Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield in January 9, 2024 through March 1, 2024.

I just finished these works this past week: 

Sky, Land, Water

Watermedia on paper

8x8

$250

“Sweet sweet holy as the day begins”  CEA

River in the Fall

Watermedia on paper

8x8

$250

“You are a river
reaching the depth
of your spiritual seas.”
Carolyn Riker

Optical Illusion

Watermedia on paper

8x8

$250

“Art is grounded in the evolving, changing, formal, visual language that tries to define it.”  CEA

Connections to Earth

Watermedia on paper

8x8

$250

“touch the earth
and plant your heart
into what comforts you”   CEA