Towne Creative Studio

Art Fair on the Square completed!!

I am happy to report that my first year as an emerging artist at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art ‘s annual Art Fair on the Square was pretty successful! I met a lot of great people and saw so much cool art and learned a lot as well!

We also raised $165 for the Aldo Leopold Foundation !!!! At my booth, I had a station where for any amount of cash, anyone could make their own art print with stamps I had carved. Whatever cash was made from this, I said I would donate 100% of it to Aldo Leopold to support local conservation efforts in Wisconsin.

If you know me and you know my art, you know I love wildlife (especially birds) and I love to support conservation in any way I can. Since the Industrial Revolution, wildlife habitats have be rapidly decreasing. This has caused many species to go extinct/become endangered. Luckily, with the help of convincing from Aldo Leopold, Teddy Roosevelt implemented stricter conservation laws and opened up 5 new national parks. Not many years, later the National Parks Service was founded.

Unfortunately, even over 100 years of efforts, America has consistently passed laws favoring companies that harm the environment and removing their restrictions to increase profit. Over the last year alone, our government has defunded the NPS, harmed the Migratory Bird Act, allowed tons of data centers to pop up with little to no restrictions, and just a few days ago rolled back significant protections under the Endangered Species Act.

I believe the wealth of this world is not money and greed, it’s the beautiful planet we live on and the connections with our loved ones. Humans are animals and are meant to live alongside everything else, not destroy it.

Sorry for the rant, but the recent actions by our government a few days ago has had me a bit down and I’m really happy we were able to raise money to help even just a little bit!

Thank you to all my friends and family that came out to see me, I love you all. Thank you to anyone to purchased from me, it made me feel so much more confident to be there and like I could fit in with all those other amazing artists!

Hopefully I can attend again in the future!

Just a few more days!!!

New painting!! I am getting ready for the Art Fair on the Square this upcoming weekend so I am finishing up some paintings to have out.

This 11x14in painting was inspired by a photo I took! A bit ago, I was driving past Monticello and parked on the side of the road to take a picture of a Kestrel. When I looked to my side, I noticed the cows on the nearby farm got curious and came right up to the fence to say hi! Not only that, but I managed to capture a photo of two cows next to each other that also had tags with numbers right after the other :)

In my head they are best friends, which is what this piece is called, "Best Friends".

Just finished this painting of a peregrine falcon!

Oil on canvas
3.5in x 5in

NEW!!! I am now offering $25 mini pet portraits!!

Getting a painting of your furry friend can be a big investment that not everyone can afford, so I wanted to offer a service that was less expensive! I will definitely still be open for oil painting commissions, but will now have smaller colored pencil drawings as well.

Click the link if you're interested!
https://www.townecreativestudio.com/copy-of-shop-art-1