Angela Raincatcher | Nine Ravens Studio

with a strong and open heart

Nexus Deis

Our connection (nexus) to the Divine (deis) lies close to our heartbeat, burns with a holy fire, and allows us to soar.
I honor and cherish the Divine within you and the connection between us.
Namaste.
 digital collage created by Angela Raincatcher

New Jewelry

I’ve spent several days indoors with the Great Mid-Atlantic Snowpocalypse of 2010. After messing around some and doing some work from home, I got down to being creative. I pulled out all my beads, got reacquainted with them, and made three necklaces.  The one above is my Woodland Faerie Queen necklace, which I’m offering for [...]

Drawing What Makes Us Unconfortable

I’m linking this post to the one right before. I think they make sense together, but what do I know.
This last weekend, I participated in a workshop, Awakening Creativity Through Spiritual Practice, taught by Sylvan at Reflections Mystery School. You know you’re in trouble when your response to a trance is, “Whoa! Deep! F**k!” The big [...]

2009 Creations

Just a little mosaic of some of the artwork I did this last year. Clockwise from upper left: Happy Buddha mala, Bastet shrine, photography that I plan to use for artwork in future, Chango shrine, healing altar, Ganesha and Hanuman altar, Strength, cosmic building blocks, touch drawing, beaded necklaces, Oggun shrine.
Looking at this is making [...]

More Colors of Santa Fe

While in New Mexico last month, I got a bit crazy purchasing beads for making jewelry this winter.

 

Colors of New Mexico

There are two very sensual things about New Mexico that will always stay in my memory. The taste of chiles at every meal and the colors I found all around me.

A curtain of marigolds next to some old wooden doors arranged outside a little shop in Taos.

Storm clouds over Highway 68 driving from Taos to [...]

Rejection Letter

Earlier this month, I put in a proposal to create an art shrine for Ofrenda, Art for the Dead, a show in Alexandria during Halloween weekend.  I didn’t have anything already created to enter, so I wrote up a short proposal and sent them some images of past shrines I have created.
Last night, I got [...]

Deeper at Artomatic: Artists Who Moved Me

Well, my life exploded over the past month as my husband and I went through the last stages of buying a house.  So, I never got around to interviewing the artists at Artomatic 2009 that I wanted to feature here.  Instead, I will provide links to their websites (not a substitute at all, but) the [...]

Deeper at Artomatic: Tammy Vitale

Tammy Vitale’s inspiration comes from many places — her own restlessness and boredom, the nature of the materials at hand and a drive to learn how to work with them, her dreams, and other artists’ work.  After I saw her work at last year’s Artomatic, I’ve been wanting to connect with her. Being an introvert, I [...]

Deeper at Artomatic: Alyson M. Olander

Artomatic opens tomorrow and I’m imagining a series of post about artists whose work is informed and inspired by their spiritual journeys and interactions with the sacred all around them. Artists who dive deep into their souls and bring up images and visions to share of their journey. Artists who intentionally bring a spiritual dimension [...]

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