Studio on the Pond

My Artistry

Creative Design versus hyperrealism

Though I can create artworks & portraiture in a realistic/hyper-realistic fashion, my heart prefers to illustrate & create horse designs (design in general actually) in a more specialized creative manner. I love color, all colors, and prefer to design my horse creations as I see them within my minds eye. Colorful, beautiful, wild, and flowing, embodying the vary nature from which my intuitive mind interprets. I have found that this style of design was similar to how my mother created her art, and traditional in many ways thus intuitively embracing much of my Scandinavian/Northern European heritage.

Like my mother before me who studied & created folk painting for the American Swedish Institute in Minnesota in her 20's, I am also a trained folk artisan, specifically in the art of Bauernmalerei. The word Bauernmalerei translates as "peasant painting" (literally "farmer painting") from German. One of the specific's of this style of folk painting is the outlining done in white, or a lighter color, other than the traditional black that is often seen.

Mediums & Methods

Creative Design versus hyperrealism

In the 40+ years I have been creating art I have learned and mastered many of its traditional methods and tools. I am fluent in brush, quill, pencils, and pastels, along with gold leafing techniques & calligraphy. I have experience in kiln fired painted glasswork, china, and porcelain, as well as actual stained & kiln fired painted glass. I crafted wooden carousels from my own pattern designs for many years under the business name of BhryiahrWood Creations, and wood carving is high on my list of creative outlet methods, as well as porcelain clay work. Beadwork, wirework, pyrography, and sewing, mediums of which I absolutely adore, and use often in my designs. Carved and painted gourds, dreamcatchers, leatherwork, as well as resin pour design are all favorite mediums of mine. And feathers, other than painting, feather art & quill making is my main specialty. Putting together all of these mediums and abilities into a single area is my goal at this stage of my career, depicting the spirit of horses with colour & beauty, embracing their wild and unique spirit and energy in each.

Chaeyahne

Creative Design versus hyperrealism

Chaeyahne

My work can be seen worldwide as the artisan known as Chaeyahne ie: ChaeyAhne SilverFox Designs. Early on in my career while my children were still young I felt it necessary to keep my public life separate from my private life, and so created a nom-de-plume.

... as an add in ... I am also a shepherd, and can take the wool shorn from my own flock of romney sheep or German angora rabbits, process it by hand, and spin it on my spinning wheel into a beautiful yarn for knitting or crocheting, and yes ... I can do both.

I get bored easily, thusly I have taught myself or learned how to do many creative things to keep my hands & mind busy. I do not believe in having idle hands.

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