Unusual Gift Ideas

Notched Plate

Nancy Young
28″ diameter x 3″ deep  Cast Paper Wall Sculpture.  Handmade Paper with Metal Patina.

Notched Plate. A great holiday gift idea from La Fuente Gallery. Nancy J. Young incorporates Native American designs into her art that truly represents the influences of the American Southwest. The use of handmade paper allows Nancy to express her art with more depth and character that complements many types of decor.

Saint Francis

9.25”H Ceramic plaque

A great holiday gift idea from Feliz Navidad. Handmade ceramic artifact depicting St. Francis. This ceramic artifact represents Saint Francis and is a product of St. Andrew’s Abbey, a Benedictine monastery situated in the high desert of Southern California.  It is unique not only in style, but in execution: made entirely by hand with natural materials, twice fired, the second fire to cone 10 (2350 degrees Fahrenheit), no two exactly alike. Each is an expression of the wonder of creation. Most saints also available.

Seeing Eye to Eye

Andrea Smith
22” x 30” Limited Edition Giclee Print

Seeing Eye to Eye. A great holiday gift from Andrea Smith Galleries. Painted in 1982, this image of Andrea Smith’s is her most well known. This painting represents the act of going within and facing our selves. In order to get along in this world and see Eye to Eye, we have to look at the whole picture. You have to look at the other person with love, as everyone thinks differently.  Each limited edition Giclee print is hand embellished by Andrea Smith, making each one unique.

Quiet Brook

Laura Mann
18″ x 18″ Original Oil Painting.
Quiet Brook, a poetic landscape.
A great holiday gift idea from La Fuente Gallery. Laura Mann’s reverence for the landscape is evident in the images she paints. This portrayal of the ever-mysterious beauty of nature complements any decor.

Patchwork Tapestry – Harvest

34”x9.5” Fabric, cloth fragments
 Hand-sewn three dimensional fabric collage depicting a harvest.

A great holiday gift idea from El Picaflor. The term “arpillera” means a rough, course fabric.  It derives from an old Chilean tradition of using old remnants of fabric to make hand-sewn appliqués. These patchwork tapestries are made by a co-op of women in Peru and they tell stories of life. This one shows the typical Andean harvest.  Variations in color and textures are natural to this item and make it unique. Hanger not included.

Before The Wheel

Sedona Artist Erin Lofton
A great holiday gift idea from Verdigris Gallery. Collaged texture mediums with inks, pencil & powders on stretched cotton canvas. This is a painting about our ancestors and their dreams. Erin feels the ancient ones had abstract visions of the future and recorded their dreamtime on the walls of sacred caves. These visions coupled with celestial visitations brought about the quantum leaps for civilization, like the wheel.

Truth

Douglas Edward Andrews
14×18 inches
“Truth” Cathedral Rock, Sedona AZ. Giclee available.

A great holiday gift idea from Point of Sedona. Douglas Edward Andrews captures the beauty of Sedona’s red rock country, famous Cathedral Rock.  Andrews, well known to the southwest, has been painting in Sedona for 30 years.