Valerie Raven

Objects That Inspire

2012-01-23T12:09:00.000-08:00

Love the Ice Queen on Wheels

French Nest in Sonoma
Vintage Doll Dress

Frill Art and Design House Opens in January!

2012-01-16T12:11:00.000-08:00

FRILL
BE PREPARED TO BE INSPIRED BY THE OFFERINGS OF THE
NEW ART AND DESIGN HOUSE FRILL IN NAPA

THE UNIQUE DESIGN TEAM OF MARIE FERRINI AND VALERIE RAVEN
PRESENTS ART, FRAMING SERVICES, CREATIVE HANDS ON WORKSHOPS
AND ONE OF A KIND TREASURES FOR SALE.

THE IDEAL PLACE TO BE INSPIRED!

Frill is located at 2007 Main Street in Napa, CA.
Frill is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
707-255-7511

Trouble In Paradise

2011-10-25T12:23:00.000-07:00

Encaustic Painting and Collage 12" x12"

Femme Clan with Peeps

2011-09-11T13:00:00.000-07:00

Femme Clan with Peeps
Sparrow Doll Photo. Painting with Gold Leaf on Panel
13"x18" SOLD

Peeps and Boogie Man Space

2011-08-17T17:59:00.000-07:00

Peeps Invading the Boggie Man's Space with Dog. Painting
Tell me is this really a bad guy or a projection of our imagination.
I think the Peeps have it under control.

2011-08-17T17:52:00.000-07:00

Rabbit In Hand
Is the white, leather rabbit being saved by the Hand from the Terrier Dog?
Questions that I think about late at night.
Painting on panel

The Boogie Man, Rabbit and Peeps

2011-08-17T17:48:00.000-07:00

The Boogie Man, Rabbit, Dog and Peeps Painting

Disappearing Birds

2011-07-13T17:43:00.000-07:00

Disappearing Birds
Oil, Gold Leaf, Collage, Encaustic on Panel
12" x 12"

Lovebirds in Dream Landscape

2011-07-13T17:13:00.000-07:00

Lovebirds In Dream Landscape
Oil, Gold Leaf, Collage, Encaustic on Panel
12" x 12"

Seven Birds in Landscape

2011-07-13T17:04:00.000-07:00

Seven Birds in Landscape
Oil, Collage, Encaustic on Panel
12" x 12"

Yellow Birds and Snake In Grass

2011-07-13T16:30:00.000-07:00

Yellow Birds and Snake in Grass
Oil, Collage, Gold Leaf, Encaustic
12"x 12"

Japanese Screen with Birds

2011-07-13T16:12:00.000-07:00

Japanese Screen with Birds12" x 12" Oil, Gold Leaf, Encaustic on Panel

Mother Bird

2011-07-12T11:46:00.000-07:00

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Mother Bird

6"x6" Oil Collage on a book page.

SOLD

Flock of Birds

2011-07-12T11:40:00.000-07:00

Flock of Birds

6" x 6" oil collage on heavy cardboard book page.

SOLD

Now showing new paintings at The Gordon Gallery

2011-07-07T11:41:00.000-07:00

Sold

All original paintings now showing at The Gordon Gallery through August 2011.

All works are currently available for purchase on Etsy.

2011-04-05T16:53:00.000-07:00

Peeps Dancing to the Beat
Paper Clay, Glass Eyes, Porcelain

Porcelain Bird Stakes

2009-09-22T14:10:00.000-07:00

Porcelain Bird Stakes

Hand made birds great in the garden

The Studio Gallery Show URBAN CAUSALTY

2009-09-22T13:37:00.000-07:00

Red Bird Box

Cockatoo Feather Box

Black Bird Box

Urban Casualty Family Box

Dead Gold Fish Lives Again

2009-09-15T15:28:00.000-07:00

Friday
Dogs fed, inside and outside birds fed and the pond fish fed. Checked the pond leaf trap and found one of my original tank gold fish dead. He swam into the leaf filter and was now too large to survive the small space of the filter. I was very sad as I lifted him out. Holding him in my hand I looked at him and he seemed to have turned a dark brown color over brilliant gold scales that he once wore in the pond. Who knows how old he is….five, six, seven years old. I have a hard time remembering the ages of fish, dogs, birds and kids. I have had him for a long time. I walked around the garden with this good size fish in my hand looking for a place to bury him. The thought of throwing him in the garbage wasn’t a fitting gesture for him or any of my creatures. I found the perfect place among the bed of lilies. The thought “fish fertilizer” came to mind as I dug the earth around the lilies… they will thrive and grow from my beautiful gold fish. I will see him again in the lilies next spring.

Sunday
Dogs fed, inside and outside birds fed and the pond fish fed. Checked the leaf trap and found only leaves. As I walked my garden looking at the latest flowers that bloomed, traces of night insect visitors and the resident rats and squirrel damage to the bird feeders I notice a large hole in the lily bed. The fish was missing. Fox the furry, black dog had dug the fish up and eat it.

The fish lives again not as the “Spring Lilies” but walking around in another energy being…my dog Fox.

April 1-May 2 Barbara Anderson Gallery

2009-03-30T13:44:00.000-07:00

Urban Casualty......Little Known and Seldom Seen Birds

Valerie Raven is the poet of the everyday who believes in the secret life of inanimate objects and natural oddities.

Ravens work combines a passion for found objects with aspects of painting, collage and assemblage.

For Raven, anything can be used to make art ... bird skeletons, mummified mice, feathers and books ....all taking on a new life at her touch.

Urban Causalty Porcelain Bird Nest Book

This Is What I Look At

2009-01-31T21:10:00.000-08:00

School crossing metal sign with bullet holes

Birdie in her garden

Shooting Target with powder magenta

holes with Chinese Money God.

Bird Paintings

2008-11-14T17:53:00.000-08:00

Bird Moon Secret Keeper

House Sparrow Secret Keeper

Golden Finch Secret Keeper

Blue Bird Secret Keeper

Feather Books

2008-11-14T10:13:00.000-08:00

African Gray Parrot Feather Book

Feather Book

African Gray and Cockatoo Feather Book