Gallery One - Prints

Prints Now Available For Sale

     As I mentioned on my home page, I am now offering prints for sale.   The images below, as well as the ones in my Etsy Shop, are arranged into three albums: Birds of a Feather, Landscapes, and Stepping Out. They represent a sampling of my original work in watercolor, acrylic and mixed medium. Click on the image for a larger view and to read the title.
     The prints are available in various standard sizes, depending upon the original work's dimensions. They are digitally printed, using archival paper and inks, with an Epson Stylus Pro 9800, courtesy of a local printship, pamorfineprint.com .   They are all open editions.
     For more information about a particular print, including pricing, sizes and payment and shipping options, please go to my Etsy Shop Prairie Storms Prints

Matting and Framing

     I do not offer matting and framing options, but I can offer you some advice.   Regrettably, this is going to be one instance when I don’t recommend you support your local economy, unless you have gobs of money and actually enjoy paying 20 times the cost of the print to have it framed.   There are a gajillion online frame companies who offer good quality frames and supplies for a fraction of the cost you’d be charged at your neighborhood framing store. I've been using americanframe.com for years and am very pleased with the quality of their products and service.
     If you don’t like ordering online, you can call their friendly customer service folks and they’ll walk you through your order step by step insuring you have everything you need.   Assembling both wood and metal frames is easy. The written instructions are clear, with lots of helpful diagrams and the only tools you need are a hammer and screw driver – a heck of alot easier than putting together your kid’s tricycle or that multilevel imitation wood grain stereo cabinet – trust me.

Home Decor 101

     While we're on the subject of matting and framing, let me add my two cents worth about color, style and size. Ideally, artists want to believe that folks buy their art because it speaks to them on some altruistic or aesthetic or spiritual level. For many of you that is the case, but if it also happens to match your pottery barn couch or grandma's comforter, all the better! When you're considering how to best showcase your newly acquired piece of art, please let the art lead and relegate the mat and frame to supporting roles only.
     I am a big advocate of plain white mats, wide enought to highlight and distinguish the print from its surroundings and sleek metal frames, preferably black or another neutral color. The mat and frame should complement, not compete with, the print.
     When in doubt, call in an expert. For those of you who live in the Raleigh/Cary, NC area, I highly recommend you contact my friend Amy, owner of Red Chair Interiors, and decorator extraordinaire. You can find her at redchairhomeinteriors.com She also has a blog, theredchairblog, which offers "decorating and organzing tips and tidbits".