Prints for Your Home: Bring Nature Inside with Tree Ring Prints by Alana Garrigues

Looking for a way to make sanctuary in your home? Seeking out ways to support living artists, small presses, and nature in the midst of all the chaos outside? Earlier this year, I signed a licensing agreement with Papernoten, a small independent business located in Astoria on the North Coast of Oregon, to print six of my tree ring paintings.

Why did I say yes to Papernoten? Simply put: because I care about quality, I care about my home state of Oregon, and I care about an ethos of “creativity is a human right and a natural human characteristic” that Papernoten embodies. I’d been looking for a way to make my work into prints for a couple of years, but I really wanted to make sure that I felt good about it. I wanted to make sure I was entering into a relationship: one in which art and creativity came first, and artists and writers were celebrated, while contributing to beauty but not waste.

Papernoten is such a cool concept, and I really, really hope you’ll buy from them. Little businesses and artists need you more than ever right now!

I am one of a handful of artists licensing with Papernoten (they also carry poetry and zines, greeting cards and seed packets), and as they grow, I look forward to growing alongside them. Right now, it’s a very small business with a very big vision… not one that involves world domination through capitalism, but rather one that involves world invitation through creative play and practice while paying artists fair wages for their work. Early years in business are hard, but beautiful concepts deserve to be supported.

Each work of art is printed on gorgeous archival paper, so it is printed to last and priced to sell. The originals of these paintings sell for upwards of $2500 (even with a generous inflation-era discount), but prints are available for only $60 each. Buy one or buy a few to start a mini-collection. (And pick up some poetry or cards or other gifts while you’re there!) They are sized 12 x 12 inches, including a border, so they fit in standard frames.

It makes a great gift… to yourself, to a loved one, to a favorite public space. And if you’re in New England or the Pacific Northwest and you buy one, please let me know. I would love, love, love to sign it for you next time I see you.

Here is a direct link to the six prints available from my collection. And here is a link to Papernoten’s creative mission and home page. If you’re on Instagram, I highly recommend checking out @papernoten over there… the posts and stories always brighten my day.

poster/flyer for an event with the Women's Caucus for Art. three art works are included on the flyer, featuring work from left to right by the following artists: Zehra Dogan, Jay DeFeo, Lottie Reiniger; two abstract artworks and a silhouetts of a girl wearing a dress looking into the air at two falling leaves, are presented side by side on a turquoise background in the top three-quarters of the flyer beneath the event title: Women in the Visual Arts, and the bottom quarter of the flyer includes the event date and time of 2-4 pm on Sunday, April 21, 2024 at Main Street Studio in Fitchburg, MA on a black background. presenters of the three artists, from left to right, are listed at Cicek Beeby, Alana Garrigues, and Nicol Wander
poster/flyer for an event with the Women's Caucus for Art. three art works are included on the flyer, featuring work from left to right by the following artists: Zehra Dogan, Jay DeFeo, Lottie Reiniger; two abstract artworks and a silhouetts of a girl wearing a dress looking into the air at two falling leaves, are presented side by side on a turquoise background in the top three-quarters of the flyer beneath the event title: Women in the Visual Arts, and the bottom quarter of the flyer includes the event date and time of 2-4 pm on Sunday, April 21, 2024 at Main Street Studio in Fitchburg, MA on a black background. presenters of the three artists, from left to right, are listed at Cicek Beeby, Alana Garrigues, and Nicol Wander