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sonja rue

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art from the inner wilderness

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Original paintings, canvas and brushed metal prints, wearable art, home decor

Scarves and Blankets

ghost for web.jpg

sonja walk forest

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sonja and norbert fishing 1979 for web.jpg

Support Slocan swung by to do an interview and ask me about my art and business - see the article here

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ghost F2

Somebody planted flowers F2

“Song” acrylic on canvas 36x48
See it live at Bliss Cafe in Slocan

“Song” acrylic on canvas 36x48
See it live at Bliss Cafe in Slocan

I want freedom but I don’t want to be the sole proprietor #freedom

I want freedom but I don’t want to be the sole proprietor #freedom

“I want freedom but I don’t want to be the sole operator” ~ Anna Sale (death, sex and money podcast)

“I want freedom but I don’t want to be the sole operator” ~ Anna Sale (death, sex and money podcast)

Turtle Island dreaming
Acrylic on repurposed canvas
36x24
See it live at Bliss cafe

Turtle Island dreaming
Acrylic on repurposed canvas
36x24
See it live at Bliss cafe

Spring be: juggling plans from 5 different dimensions while trying to keep everything that’s alive happy for at least the next 2 months 😂

Spring be: juggling plans from 5 different dimensions while trying to keep everything that’s alive happy for at least the next 2 months 😂

I don’t want to speak my fear
Because
My kids
I don’t want to be honest about my disappointment
Because
My parents

I don’t want to speak
Because of the drowning internet
I don’t want to feel
Because the news

I don’t want to share
Because
Deep fake
Silenced while free

I don’t want to believe
Because
It’s always a buy in

I wish I could be heard without money as the mediator
I wish I could hear you
Without money as the value creator
That would be so much better

Do we even know how anymore?
It’s all very confusing
I hear that was the plan
From both sides I hear that

I almost never bother writing anymore
It is drowned and obsolete by the time I find the language.
No more time to digest
And no one cares if I retreat and check out
Those aren’t modern weapon
Or if they are, they’re on no side of mine

I have a few things to say
But they make no matter in this soup
In fact I have some screaming to do
But so does everyone
And it’s always a competition around here
So whatever
I’ll just quietly try to find ears that choose to listen
And voices that use real bodily sounds.

My art, your heart, not sure it’s done yet

I don’t want to speak my fear
Because
My kids
I don’t want to be honest about my disappointment
Because
My parents

I don’t want to speak
Because of the drowning internet
I don’t want to feel
Because the news

I don’t want to share
Because
Deep fake
Silenced while free

I don’t want to believe
Because
It’s always a buy in

I wish I could be heard without money as the mediator
I wish I could hear you
Without money as the value creator
That would be so much better

Do we even know how anymore?
It’s all very confusing
I hear that was the plan
From both sides I hear that

I almost never bother writing anymore
It is drowned and obsolete by the time I find the language.
No more time to digest
And no one cares if I retreat and check out
Those aren’t modern weapon
Or if they are, they’re on no side of mine

I have a few things to say
But they make no matter in this soup
In fact I have some screaming to do
But so does everyone
And it’s always a competition around here
So whatever
I’ll just quietly try to find ears that choose to listen
And voices that use real bodily sounds.

My art, your heart, not sure it’s done yet

Day 3 #reprogrammingforbeauty
Sometimes it can be balanced and all line up
Show me the beauty and all the real, important things you’d rather pay your attention to.
Photo by me, beauty by nature… more to come
Join the alternative attention “economy”

Day 3 #reprogrammingforbeauty
Sometimes it can be balanced and all line up
Show me the beauty and all the real, important things you’d rather pay your attention to.
Photo by me, beauty by nature… more to come
Join the alternative attention “economy”

Day 2 #reprogrammingforbeauty
Show me the beauty and all the real, important things you’d rather pay your attention to.
Photo by me, beauty by nature… more to come
Join the alternative attention “economy”

Day 2 #reprogrammingforbeauty
Show me the beauty and all the real, important things you’d rather pay your attention to.
Photo by me, beauty by nature… more to come
Join the alternative attention “economy”

Show me the beauty and all the real, important things you’d rather pay your attention to.
Photo by me, beauty by nature… more to come
Join the alternative attention “economy”

Show me the beauty and all the real, important things you’d rather pay your attention to.
Photo by me, beauty by nature… more to come
Join the alternative attention “economy”

“Somebody planted flowers” acrylic on canvas. Prints available on my website sonjarueartist.com. #canadianartist #abstractartdaily #abstractart #abstractpaintingart #originalcanadianart

“Somebody planted flowers” acrylic on canvas. Prints available on my website sonjarueartist.com. #canadianartist #abstractartdaily #abstractart #abstractpaintingart #originalcanadianart

Art w mum, circa 1982, slocan lake, little off grid cabin near Silverton. I guess it all started around here

Art w mum, circa 1982, slocan lake, little off grid cabin near Silverton. I guess it all started around here

I have canvas prints available of this favourite. This one was so much fun to paint 😊😂 “Made of you” 10x8 $60 20x16 $130. #canadianartist #artforkidsroom #playfulart #canadianartforsale

I have canvas prints available of this favourite. This one was so much fun to paint 😊😂 “Made of you” 10x8 $60 20x16 $130. #canadianartist #artforkidsroom #playfulart #canadianartforsale

“The Question” acrylic paint on canvas 24x36 Prints available. sonjarueartist.com

“The Question” acrylic paint on canvas 24x36 Prints available. sonjarueartist.com

“Guardian” acrylic on canvas. 40x30. - prints available. sonjarueartist.com. #canadianartist #CanadianArtDaily #artincanada #canadiansrtforsale #originalpainting

“Guardian” acrylic on canvas. 40x30. - prints available. sonjarueartist.com. #canadianartist #CanadianArtDaily #artincanada #canadiansrtforsale #originalpainting

Godwyn sings the blues

Godwyn sings the blues

“Ancestor” Acrylic on canvas board 18x24

“Ancestor” Acrylic on canvas board 18x24

Exciting announcement coming soon, stay tuned

#originalpainting #canadianartist #horsepainting #spiritpainting #artwork #artistsoninstagram

Exciting announcement coming soon, stay tuned

#originalpainting #canadianartist #horsepainting #spiritpainting #artwork #artistsoninstagram

I’m celebrating love day with a special offer! The piece that brought me back to art.
“Owl Medicine” on brushed metal.
$222 (regularly $350)

I’m celebrating love day with a special offer! The piece that brought me back to art.
“Owl Medicine” on brushed metal.
$222 (regularly $350)

My art studio roof is a piece of art in itself 😂🥰

My art studio roof is a piece of art in itself 😂🥰

The hardest part of most scenarios is the emotions we have about them (or even just the anticipated emotions)

The hardest part of most scenarios is the emotions we have about them (or even just the anticipated emotions)

If you don’t like it
Figure out how to do it better
Skip the energy suck of loaded judgement
If you find yourself bitching
Take that energy and figure out the next best step available to you and take it.

~ art is an unfinished experiment by me

If you don’t like it
Figure out how to do it better
Skip the energy suck of loaded judgement
If you find yourself bitching
Take that energy and figure out the next best step available to you and take it.

~ art is an unfinished experiment by me

I have decided to stop berating myself for needing to hibernate in January lol... I keep thinking I "should" be more social, reach out etc etc... yet I don't do it.
So instead of hating myself for being rather bear-like, i will request that my loving friends not take it personally (also lot of you are likely caving out also) and bug me again mid-feb/early march if you think about me and i haven't resurfaced yet. I will do the same with you ❤
I'm working on my art and my website and I'm learning new things in a quiet way and so there will be lots to share once the northern part of the world starts to thaw.

art is by me... actual photo w photoshop effects

I have decided to stop berating myself for needing to hibernate in January lol... I keep thinking I "should" be more social, reach out etc etc... yet I don't do it.
So instead of hating myself for being rather bear-like, i will request that my loving friends not take it personally (also lot of you are likely caving out also) and bug me again mid-feb/early march if you think about me and i haven't resurfaced yet. I will do the same with you ❤
I'm working on my art and my website and I'm learning new things in a quiet way and so there will be lots to share once the northern part of the world starts to thaw.

art is by me... actual photo w photoshop effects

"Turtle Island Dreaming"
Acrylic on repurposed canvas
Sonja Rue 2021

It's so sad, weird, frustrating, infuriating and also somehow relieving and validating to be listening to a few of my favourite podcasters who live in L.A in how they are talking about the fires there.
I realize its a huge population and so its a very different situation to our fires here and dire to a lot more people. But the reflections are the same.... about what is important... who stays and how they help, lack of information from official channels, questions about "security", community, climate change etc.
The podcasters are broadcasting (Hollywood-style) and making a big thing about all the same things we in the koots went through so many times in the past few years.
I wish I had been able to vent my emotions on some big podcast last summer (or the 2 summers before that) lol - to share with others the reality of this experience so that maybe people would start taking climate change, forestry etc etc seriously
Sometimes i don't know what to feel... sigh...
Huge empathy and total exasperation at the same time.
Heartbroken for all the people experiencing this same trauma and weird cultural existential crisis that we did... yet pissed that all the first-hand-account writing from our local-small community that was ignored when we went through it, because we aren't L.A
Hashtag-many feelings at once
Hashtag-perspective
Hashtag- I'm only human
Hashtag- holding multiple truths at once
Hashtag- not taking sides
Its a lot, for everyone, no matter where, what or how much.

"Turtle Island Dreaming"
Acrylic on repurposed canvas
Sonja Rue 2021

It's so sad, weird, frustrating, infuriating and also somehow relieving and validating to be listening to a few of my favourite podcasters who live in L.A in how they are talking about the fires there.
I realize its a huge population and so its a very different situation to our fires here and dire to a lot more people. But the reflections are the same.... about what is important... who stays and how they help, lack of information from official channels, questions about "security", community, climate change etc.
The podcasters are broadcasting (Hollywood-style) and making a big thing about all the same things we in the koots went through so many times in the past few years.
I wish I had been able to vent my emotions on some big podcast last summer (or the 2 summers before that) lol - to share with others the reality of this experience so that maybe people would start taking climate change, forestry etc etc seriously
Sometimes i don't know what to feel... sigh...
Huge empathy and total exasperation at the same time.
Heartbroken for all the people experiencing this same trauma and weird cultural existential crisis that we did... yet pissed that all the first-hand-account writing from our local-small community that was ignored when we went through it, because we aren't L.A
Hashtag-many feelings at once
Hashtag-perspective
Hashtag- I'm only human
Hashtag- holding multiple truths at once
Hashtag- not taking sides
Its a lot, for everyone, no matter where, what or how much.

“communion” acrylic on canvas 36x24
Reflecting on regeneration and faith in process ❤️

“communion” acrylic on canvas 36x24
Reflecting on regeneration and faith in process ❤️

“discipline is remembering what you want.” – David Campbell

“discipline is remembering what you want.” – David Campbell

Godwyn, Godder, Log, Logwyn, Diggity Dogger, Old Man, Buddy,Dude, Goodest Boy, bestest guy 🥰

Godwyn, Godder, Log, Logwyn, Diggity Dogger, Old Man, Buddy,Dude, Goodest Boy, bestest guy 🥰

My pants are turning into paintings of their own 😂🤪

My pants are turning into paintings of their own 😂🤪

Still finishing up some details on this one but was excited to share
“Communion” Acrylic on canvas 48x36
Reflecting on regeneration after crisis and faith in process and nature’s wisdom
❤️

Still finishing up some details on this one but was excited to share
“Communion” Acrylic on canvas 48x36
Reflecting on regeneration after crisis and faith in process and nature’s wisdom
❤️

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