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ARTIST PROFILE - Donna Merchant-Crooks Donna Merchant-Crooks is a professional artist and woodcarver. She works in a plethora of mediums and is accomplished in each of them.Donna has a kinship with nature, where she finds solace and inspiration. She spent years cooking and pulling mule strings in Idaho’s Frank Church wilderness, developing an appreciation for the rare and untouched views of life. Today Donna’s wilderness is the San Juan Mountains of Southern Colorado. She sparks her creativity by fishing, hiking and horseback riding.Donna is self-taught. Ask her if she has worked in a particular medium and if she hasn’t, she’ll reply, “not yet”. She believes a person can do anything in increments. Her work proves this.Donna is currently building a body of work that reflects themes about women . . . their challenges, their joys, their friendships, their empowerment. Her pieces provoke a range of emotion and contemplation. She chose bronze as the medium for this body of work. Her first bronze, “Moon River” is shown at Handcrafted Interiors, Pagosa Springs, CO.To view more of Donna’s artwork visits Wild Spirit Gallery, Pagosa Springs, CO and her website www.merchant-crooks.com. “Moon River” is symbolic. She represents the embodiment of consciousness. She is always birthing the present which is represented by the moon. She carries the moon in her belly, moons on her side, and in her hand offering ”presence” to life ( the trout). We humans are like the trout in an over fished pool leery of the past and worried about the future. We don’t bite easily. But Consciousness knowing that presence is all there is, continues her offering gently coaxing us to bite.
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