Looking to enhance your home and grow your collection with awesome art by local makers? You can now shop a selection of my small (4"x4") tree ring paintings on BackgardenArt, an online art gallery exclusively featuring Massachusetts artists! Keep your eyes open, as they start to schedule pop-ups around the MA.

hello love!

Welcome to my little corner of the world.

My name is Alana Garrigues.

I’m an intuitive artist, lover of land and trees, mama of newly-grown identical twins, and strong believer in multidisciplinary magic.

Though I live in New England now, I am forever a cedar-loving Oregonian at heart.

Art and writing have healed, shifted, and transformed me, and I love to share the beauty of creative process with others. My work in turn explores transformation, nature, the human condition, and themes of environmental and social justice.

Lately, I’ve been obsessing about a few specific ways of making art:

  • interactive work: artwork in public or private spaces that invites play or creates comfort and sanctuary
  • book arts: an intimate conversation between the maker’s hands and the viewer’s eyes
  • reclaiming and making new: exploring histories of objects and reimagining what they might become next 
  • color swatches: observing surprise and emotion through color mixing
  • mother tree holds the stories: always and forever, a reverence and love story for the forest that allows for life and breath

Beyond this website, I am on Patreon, where you can support me with a free membership, or become a patron and collector as a paid member. You can shop a selection of mini 4″x4″ tree ring paintings on backgardenart. And I share somewhat regularly on Instagram.

I also welcome you to reach out via email at alana@ofloveandlight.org. I am often open to commissions and collaborations, and happy to schedule a phone or video call by appointment. Check the banner at the top for the latest news, and look below for current and upcoming exhibits and workshops.

xoxo,

alana

Artist Alana Garrigues smiles into the camera, a Micron pen in her hand, sitting over a large 24x24 inch piece of reclaimed plywood as she works on her Mother Tree Holds the Stories series.

Upcoming Exhibits and Appearances

“Community Loom” is included in the “PLAY!” juried group exhibit at the Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery, located inside the Ghosh Science and Technology Center at Worcester State University in Worcester, MA. Check it out through February 21… and go ahead and add your special touch to the weaving!

Love creative community? Come hang out with me at the Gale Free Art Club: the last Wednesday of each month at Holden’s historic Gale Free Library. Use the library’s materials, or bring your own.

Subscribe to my newsletter for information about events and exhibits as details are finalized. Visit my CV to review a selection of past exhibits.