Shannon Amidon

Three red trays containing soil blocks for seed starting. A variety of seed packets laying around, with soil and compost in the background.

Indoor seed starting set up. A silver metal wire rack containing five shelves with trays of seeds starting in soil.

Close-up image of soil blocks with seeds sprouting in them.

The past few years, I’ve really been getting into gardening and it seems I’ve gone off the deep end of this year 🤣 there’s no turning back now. 560 seedlings so far! Still working on my setup but so far so good.

#garden #gardening #plantlove

😊 thanks

Thanks to everyone who came out to the opening of Love is Love exhibition at Art at the Cave Gallery. Such a fun evening. Here I am with my two pieces that are in the show.

Mixed media and encaustic painting with Pacific bleeding heart flowers, the upper left side. The color palette is white, pink and green.

Pacific Bleeding Hearts, 40 x 30” mixed media and encaustic painting.
Currently on display at Art at the Cave Gallery in Vancouver, Wa for their Love is Love exhibition.

Mixed media painting with a red human heart.

Paramour, 40” x 30” Mixed Media Encaustic
This painting draws inspiration from the profound connection between writers Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin. It reflects their passionate love for one another, their deep devotion to the art of writing, and the unwavering loyalty they showed to each other's work

It takes curiosity to learn. It takes courage to unlearn.

Learning requires the humility to admit what you don't know today. Unlearning requires the integrity to admit that you were wrong yesterday.

Learning is how you evolve. Unlearning is how you keep up as the world evolves.

The invention of nature was sooo good (and long). I really enjoyed it.

Large painting with pink foxglove flowers and honeybees. Subtle pinks, green and white colors.

Foxglove - 48”x36”, mixed media encaustic painting.

Creating and nurturing beauty in dark times helps us endure another day. Beauty can help us appraise how we live and how we can build better lives.

Congrats!!

Blue cyanotype paper with image of human heat surrounded by flowers on a wooden table

Queen Anne’s Lace flower set on a blue ceramic dish in the sun on a picnic table

Queen Anne lace flower set on a blue cyanotype postcard with a pane of glass over it on top of a piece of cardboard in the sun

Enjoying the winter sun & making cyanotypes. The rains will be returning soon so I need to soak up as much of this as possible.

Welcome 😊

Happy Monday,looking forward to a week filled with time in the studio, garden & spending time with friends. Trying not to forget that joy & rest are acts of resistance.

Mixed media encaustic painting in earth tones with real bird nest and feathers in a little nook in the painting.

Only a week left to check out Birds Take Flight at Vashon Center for the Arts gallery. My mixed media encaustic piece Echos of Tomorrow is part of this exhibition along with lots of other wonderful artwork

Same 🤣 but I figure it’s time for something new. Definitely looking to extract myself from the greedy monsters. There is a bit of a learning curve, might have to jump on YouTube for a tutorial.

Thanks 😊

@bethanyrydmark.bsky.social Thanks! You too! Looking forward to seeing what this space can be.

In addition to being a professional visual artist, I am also the founder and Director of @verdancyproject.bsky.social a community centered Artist residency program that offers workshops, events, and community art projects in Troutdale, Oregon.

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Echoes and Shadows, 36" x 24" Mixed Media Encaustic. This piece can be seen at Gallery 114 in Portland, OR until Feb 1st. I've been working on a new series that is inspired by and diving into the world of maps and cartography.

#art #encaustic

Yay hi Melanie!

Hi Joseph, thanks!

Thanks!

Yay! Thank you so much.

Female artist smiling, wearing black standing next to an abstract painting.

Hello! Jumping over here with everyone else. I am Shannon, a multidisciplinary artist. Follow to see my artwork, process and learn about upcoming workshops & exhibitions.