November’s Featured Artist

Alexis Moyer

Reflections

This woodpecker is enjoying his own reflection

15"h x 10"w x 6"d

Reflections Woodpecker

Trillium

Spring bulbs appear and bring joy back to the forest.

19"h x 9"w x 4"d

Trillium Detail

Spring

With spring comes the renewal of the greenery.

18"h x 12"w x 2"d

Spring Mushrooms

Spring Leaves

Returning

Almost immediately the birds begin to come home.

15"h x 9" w x 3.5"d

Returning Bird

Home

The redwoods survive and so does this owls home

19"h x 6.5w x 2.5d

Emerging

Mushrooms sprout with the winter rains

16"h x 11"w x 2"d

Emerging Mushrooms

Renewal

Watching the wildfires burn in California, and wondering how much my own special forest would be forever changed by the fire, I began to think about the idea of renewal.

How, once the devastation was over, the forest would regenerate itself.

How would it heal from the fire and renew itself in new ways?

I thought about the way nature uses fire as its housekeeper, clearing out old dead wood and making room for new growth to emerge. It seems nature always provides for the life it supports.

As I watched and waited for the fire to take its course I decided to create a body of work representing the forest at work. It was my way of finding hope through the fire and billowing clouds of smoke.

The progression of these pieces takes a journey from the early post fire stages of being bare and empty, to the sprouting of new growth, the return of the birds and animals and finally the coming of spring and eventual renewal of the forest and the animal life within it.

Each is part of this is continuous cycle we are witnessing.

I hope catching a glimpse of yourself in these natural settings will help remind you to be renewed and find the best in yourself and hope for a better future.