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for nature through the mediums of painting
and metalwork design.
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My name is Marcella Rose.
I'm an artist, I paint, sculpt,
and design jewelry, and I live in
Pelican Rapids, Minnesota.
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I like to paint animals,
I love to paint nature and it's all divine to me so
bringing out that divineness in matter is
what counts for me.
I, I love the beauty of it and I like listening to
the messages.
I'm completely in the moment and I just look at
the image and let, and put some paint on there and
watch it happen.
Basically I just kind of let it come through
because I don't have any preconceived idea.
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I can't paint buildings, I can't paint fence posts,
I can't paint anything that's manmade
for some reason.
It's like that old thing about I can't draw a
straight line, I can't do it.
No I, I got to stick with something that's breathing
and living and alive.
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As a little girl I've always,
I've always drawn.
I started out drawing horses actually and I
started doing fashion illustration and just went
into advertising illustration,
but I always kept my love for doing anything with
nature so, I always did that.
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Here we have "Compassion."
It's a pelican.
I was inspired as soon as we moved up here
to Pelican Rapids.
Pelicans are very compassionate animals as
they will actually save their,
save their young by taking their own life.
Then we have "Promise of Glory."
A loon, I hear them every day,
off and on all day long.
We have a little family living
right out front here.
Blue heron of course, they're all over
around here.
The water birds are abundant.
The trumpeter swans are out front
especially in the spring.
This piece right here is, it's depictive of just,
just spirit, just pure spirit,
its called "Renew and Recharge."
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Unattached observer in this world,
not of it; journey beyond opposites,
the language of transcendence.
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Sincerity, honesty,
enthusiasm, tenderness, goodness and grace,
abundance of life.
I do write for my paintings a lot of times
it's just like whatever comes through to me once
the artwork is done.
And it's usually in a prose format,
cause I don't call myself a writer but it just kind
of comes through.
So I usually include that on the,
you know on the back of an article or on my website.
I eventually like to put a book together and then put
everything in there.
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I love to design jewelry;
it just feels like fine art that lasts
for a very long time.
I can cast in silver or gold.
This particular pendant, "Embrace the Fire Within,"
which I'm wearing right here,
is all about empowerment.
It's a symbol of inner strength and passion,
it's like a tactile affirmation basically,
you can feel it with your hand,
it was made to hold right there.
So that's "Embrace the Fire Within."
Then I have "Radiance," which is like a little
star, which is basically this same symbol times
four, it's like for the four directions,
four seasons, it's represented,
representative of consciousness,
creativity, compassion, and cooperation.
And that I have in a pendant and in earrings.
Every, all of my jewelry is sculpted in wax and
cast in silver or gold.
I just started playing with wax one day and
melting it with a hot tool and I love
the feeling of it.
It was again a lot like the oil paints,
just very fluid and, and life-like.
I could get some very interesting,
interesting things in it so I just kept doing it.
I just started doing it on my own and then I did take
a small course in casting to learn how that was done
and found out that that's not something I want to do
so I actually hire that out.
But the actual design and creation of the piece is
my own and I self taught there.
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And this is a portrait of Bobby Vee.
I was invited to be part of the invitational at the
Rourke Museum last year and the theme was the
American Songbook, so it was just a no brainer for
me to paint Bobby Vee since I listen to him
all the time.
So then when I, I painted it and I contacted the Vee
family, they suggested that I bring it over and
they could see it and Bobby loved it so much
that he actually signed it for me so
this is his signature.
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I want people to be inspired.
I want people to just see, see the divine in
themselves by seeing it come through the painting
I think because that's what I'm trying to portray
and I just believe if somebody's looking at that
they will pick up on the same feeling that I had
perhaps when I was in the moment painting and
inspire them to do it you know the fact that I do
believe that we're all artists and most people
don't seem to believe that but it's a way of life and
when I'm painting I don't hear,
see, feel anything else I'm just there and I
believe that that is a connection
with the divine.
I would like them to have that same experience and
find their own, their own path,
their own excitement, their own passion.
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