Natalie Salminen
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Natalie Salminen teaches encaustic workshops both locally and internationally, exhibits and facilitates discussions on spirituality and what it means to live as an artist within the context of commitment. Encaustic has become for a valued medium as it allows for physicality, creative mixed media additions, use of poetic text and ultimately a powerful employment of color; each being vital..
Natalie Salminen
1y ago
It’s here! Fables of the North Shore
Here it is, in full printed glory! Fables of the North Shore, Volume 1 (third edition!!) is ready to ship. This book contains 60 pages of pure DELIGHT. Inside are five original fables specific to the North Shore of Lake Superior, illustrated by heaps of original artwork of various mediums. You’ll find encaustic paintings, collage, dioramas and printmaking goodness spilling from every page. (Some of the artwork in the book is available as prints or even originals!)
The best part of this storytelling project was that it began with the idea of creating in fr ..read more
Natalie Salminen
1y ago
Fables of the North Shore – a collaboration with artist Jordan Sundberg of Tin Cup Design, opens July 9th, 2022 at Fika Coffee in Lutsen, Minnesota, and runs through September 24th. We’ll be having a closing party, too – on the 24th, complete with puppet shows! You don’t want to miss this party Stay tuned over on our Instagram pages: @tuliptea and @tincupdesign. We created 36 pieces of art for this show. It’s a multi-disciplinary feast for the eyes and heart. So much DELIGHT to be had!
Here’s what Jordan had to say in a recent IG post: “Natalie and I have written five original fables woven w ..read more
Natalie Salminen
2y ago
31st Contemporary Finnish American Artist Series | Finlandia University
Click here for more information on Interstice: (noun) a small intervening space. The show opens December 4th, with an online Zoom reception, Thursday, December 9th at 6:00 CST. Zoom link included in the link above.
I would love to have you join me! This show is the culmination and heart of the last three years of my studio practice. Integrating the philosophical work of late French sociologist and theologian, Jacques Ellul, I am exploring the current dehumanizations rampant within our burgeoning digital landscap ..read more
Natalie Salminen
2y ago
It was the fall of 2018 and I was exhausted in every sense of the word. Mother to three, trying to be true to my artistic practice, being a pastor’s wife, maintaining relationships with family and friends, volunteering in my children’s schools and on top of all that, running a small business – a brick and mortar art and poetry showroom, Studio Haiku. I was beyond drained.
Vigils: Pre-Dawn | Liturgy of the Hours Series
Unfortunately my artistic practice had become a series of what I had deemed “difficult births.” The creative energy was present, but the joy and celebration in th ..read more
Natalie Salminen
2y ago
Naturalness + Simplicity
encaustic, mixed media on panel
6×12 diptych
2021
©Natalie Salminen Rude
“I believe this need of wilderness is inherent in most of us, even those seemingly farthest removed from it by civilized living. The cities may cover it up, make us forget temporarily; but deep underneath is an inherent urge for naturalness and simplicity and a way of life different from the one we know.” – Sigurd F. Olson
Culture of Sensitivity | encaustic, mixed media on panel 11×14 2021 ©Natalie Salminen Rude
You’ll find my first body of work after a year’s pause, Fre ..read more
Natalie Salminen
3y ago
Update! Has a year passed since I’ve closed the studio? Just about. I’ve been thinking since then…pulling my pressed-to-the-glass face back so that I can see, aching for the BIG PICTURE that we’ve somehow lost sight of. I’ve been largely away from all things digital/social media. I have been present with those given back hours – spending them on my children, on walking daily, on planting fall bulbs, on being quiet. How refreshing it has been. To stop and think. To refrain from consuming with such intensity. To slow. To consider what has been consumed. To turn a thought, over and over.
I ..read more
Natalie Salminen
3y ago
As my brick and mortar shop is closing, an inventory clearance sale is in order! Shop online and on my instagram stories over the next few days.
SALE runs May 6-10th, 2020.
Help me spread the word! I’ll be taking some time off this summer to rest and to listen for what’s next for me. There will be more original work coming in time – this I know. At this point in the Covid-19 journey, I have decided to sell my current inventory and have no immediate plans for re-ordering note cards or haiku prints. Please stock up if you are able!
THANK YOU for your continued support and for championing ..read more
Natalie Salminen
3y ago
Haa Haa Black Sheep emerged as I struggled to make sense of a bittersweet conclusion I had reached. It was time to close my beloved brick and mortar art studio, Studio Haiku.
It was in processing the closure that this piece emerged. Sadly, I had not been able to create anything for most of the previous nine months, as a confusing and stress-fueled weariness had earlier in the year overtaken me. With all my commitments, my energy had been divided and my creative energy was suffering to say the least.
As the image came into being, it was clear that I was dancing with a misplaced shame, a b ..read more
Natalie Salminen
3y ago
It was a joy to be able to share my new body of work, mono no aware at Lizzards Art Gallery in Duluth, Minnesota. Thank you to everyone who came out! The show runs from August 8th – September 28th, 2019. The artist statement truly reflects the spirit of the work. I hope you enjoy it.
Mono no aware is the Japanese term for the wistful awareness of impermanence. At the passing of all things, a gentle grief may be present, but the accompanying wistfulness is what heightens the appreciation for what is beautiful, even if transient. In this new body of encaustic work by ..read more
Natalie Salminen
3y ago
UWS | 125 years
Join the University of Wisconsin-Superior in celebrating their 125th year!
Group Alumni Show | Kruk Gallery
June 11, 2019 | 5-8 pm
I’m pleased to be showing my most recent sculptural work, featuring hand drawn plat maps of Duluth encased in encaustic – now artifacts. My artist statement considers this: Technology as Conquistador.
when we’re overthrown
values illuminated
please take directions
encaustic, hand-drawn plat map artifacts, found objects, dried botanicals, 23kt gold leaf
2018 ..read more