Eleanor Guerrero

Country where you live:

United States

City where you live:

Red Lodge

Website:

http://eleanorguerrerostudio.com

Instagram:

http://www.instagram.com/eleanorguerrero475

Statement :

The natural world should not be taken for granted. We see it in pretty photographs and in our phones as we work to connect with each other in daily life. But the actual world sings and vibrates with song, color and strength! Don't miss it! By visiting it even for a short walk, we feed our souls and our health and keeps our rhythm in tune the way it should be. I work to stimulate that desire with the magnificent animals, wide landscapes and people of this world.

Quote:

The natural world is precious-experience it now.

Medicine Bear's Gift

Upon emerging from hibernation, the big grizzly climbs down out of his frozen cave in the Northern Rockies (sometimes at 4,000 meters or more!) to the greening fields. He immediately digs up the Osha or Bear Root to rub on his body and as a digestive to stimulate his appetite. The Tribes watch the bear and use its medicine which is powerful-even for streph throat!

Grandfather

This old bull is part of a line of the original bison of the plains. I put him in the foothills of the Rockies where I live and where his species used to roam freely in the thousands making the giant hills "thunder!" He dreams of glory days.

Dancing the Dawn

After a long, dark winter, we await the sound of the flapping giant wings and crackling vocals of the returning Sandhill Cranes! They are magnificent, and awe-inspiring. Each spring, they engage in courtship dances on our hills and in our wetlands of Montana.

Spirit Grizzly VII

The grizzly of the Rocky Mountains is an apex predator. There is nothing like him. He roams the mountains at will and all have to give way-including humans! He is the subject of mystic ritual and shares his power with the Tribes of Montana who revere him.

Aylson's Kinaalda

This young modern Navaho woman still returns to Shiprock (the sacred mountain in the distance) to stay overnight in her family's hogan with a medicine man and female relatives for an all night coming of age ceremony or Kinaalda. I have run at dawn with these young ladies as they celebrate the coming of the sun and the good blessings it brings for all that morning. Afterwards, we feast on sacred corn cake that she had made and buried to cook for hours. A great celebration follows!

Bio:

Eleanor Joan Guerrero was born in northern New Jersey. Guerrero absorbed the art scene while quite young, hopping the bus to major NYC museums. She painted her first oil painting at 8, carrying books on Michelangelo and Vermeer home from public libraries. She studied art methods in oils, watercolor and sculpting at Penn State University earning a B.A. in cultural anthropology. She was soon selling her large oils at metropolitan area shows and taking commissions. Her goal is to create beauty in this world to and inspire others to action and joy-it is all about balance.

She visited many American historic locales and Native reservations, even participating in a Hopi Ceremony. Her paintings adorn corporate offices in New York City and Florida. She traveled the world studying art and culture from Italy to India. Drawn to vast vistas and Native cultures, in 1995, she moved out West in 1995. She finally settled in Red Lodge, Montana where she exhibits at the Beartooth Fine Art Gallery in Red Lodge. She independently exhibits and sells her art nationwide. Her large work, Spirit Grizzly, is in permanent exhibit at the Montana State Capitol building in the Governor’s office, Native American Conference Room. She founded the Native American Childrens Association with her sister, which for 15 years has provided children with food, new coats and art.

Guerrero paints historic and current Western Tribal members striving to portray their dignity and respect for their sacred traditions.