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YeloMonki Works Visual Anthropologist Offering Stories via Images Kin2Folk

Painting & Illustration

Originals/Commissions:

Portraits Logos Memories

animals plants people

fantastic creatures

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YeloMonki Works Visual Anthropologist Offering Stories via Images Kin2Folk

Painting & Illustration

Originals/Commissions:

Portraits Logos Memories

animals plants people

fantastic creatures

.…

Before Now

I have done many things in my past… more than the average person. All along, I was longing to be a painter. Years and years rolled by while I juggled and deconstructed what I had been told a painter was and what they did. Then finally, with the encouragement of my husband, I just sat down and started to paint.

I have NEVER been happier.

So, being completely untrained, my work could easily be deamed “Folk Art“. I prefer it to be addressed simply as “Visual Storytelling”.

Honored

2022- Two YeloMonki Works paintings were added to the permanent collection of the Presque Isle’s Reed Art Gallery at the University of Maine.

Titles:

A Conversation & Tend To My Garden Now…

2023- CSIRI.org featured YeloMonki Works as their Featured Artist for the months of January and February.

Thoughts for Tools

Oil, Acrylic, Walnut Oil, Stuff

”You’ve left me with nothing but I’ve worked with less.” Ani DeFranco

”It’s what I have to work with.” Hedwig

“I was always working steady but I never called it art.” Leonard Cohen

Fuel

Inspiration is Everywhere. People, Animals, Plants, Food, Music, Movies, Books, Landscapes, Sunsets, My Lover And Best Friend…..who keeps me laughing constantly.

Mottos Dictated through Adaptations:

Don’t let things surprise you - Let them validate you.

Cherish the art of long distance relationships.

Learn from those who have passed on before you.

The word Artist is not exclusive - Everyone is an Artist at something.

To a friends house, the way is never long.

Experience

1987 - Collaboration with Artist Vikki Vaden, for The Mattress Factory Art Exhibition (in Cabbagetown , in the Mill). Instillation: The Power of Mask Media.

1993- - Invitation to work in collaboration with other artists to create an Exquisite Corpse piece for an Art of The Century Gallery Event at Rebecca Shipley's place.

2011- Traveled solo to Checam, Guatemala (S.W. Of Quetzaltenango) to learn about the iconography within the back-strap-loom weaving of the Ke'che Maya. At night, I conducted painting time with the supplies I had brought with me anticipating this happening. The first night, a few kids showed up. By the end of the week there were whole families (who had never painted before) and leaders of the community painting together. Each painting was a story. It was a dream come true.

Originals ~ Working On ~ Sold ~ Commissions

Tools to Conquer

My Studo

It’s Always The Beautiful That Get Locked In The Cage

(My response to N.A.F.T.A.)

*Inspired by a lyric by Prince

Oil on Canvas

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Pushing Back The Glacier

Oil on Wood Cabinet Door

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*Inspiration from a lyric of Tori Amos

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This Is Her…Now

Oil on Wood Cabinet Door

Commission

Available in Prints

Studio

The Challenge Has Always Been Fun

Acrylic on Wood Found Outside of the Cactus Forrest, AZ.

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*My first International Sale. Norway. Owner is a huge R.E.M. Fan

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YeloMonki Works Visual Anthropologist Offering Stories via Images Kin2Folk

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