Writer Storyteller
Artist Performance poet
They/Them
All images, words, art by Minnie Warburton except where noted.
For information on artwork or for performance readings contact me at:
photo by Samantha Warburton
As artists, we are so often expected to choose: writer, artist, musician, actor, dancer, director, designer, producer, sculptor, composer, photographer. Pick one, be that. But it is my experience that we are all many things. Here on these pages are a few of my things.
The Pages:
ARTWORK AND IMAGES
The Sketchbook: Drawings and sketches from my sketchbook that I carry with me everywhere.
The Girls: A Series and a Meditation: Acrylic paintings on wood panels, a series done in conjunction with What Happened on the Denton Road but a series that stands alone as well.
Tennessee Barns and Farmlands: A series of paintings and drawings done in the mid-1990’s when I was living in Tennessee and realized the barns that came down because of time, wind and weather and the economy would never be rebuilt.
Sky Divers Sky Dancers: A series of paintings that burst upon me and insisted on their right to be!
Pacific Northwest: These are all new paintings done in the past year in watermedia - acrylic, casein, watercolor, gouache, and watercolor pencil. They are of Washington State - Bainbridge Island and Tacobet (Mt. Rainier).
The Pond: A quiet space for the unquiet mind. Images, verbal and visual, for reflecting and reflection. The space between words can be more important than the words. A place of stillness. Minnie Aumonier wrote, "There is always music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it." The Pond, a place to let the heart go quiet, if only for the space of a breath. Inhale... Exhale...
Images: They may be visual, they may be verbal. They may be mine or someone else's. I will always give credit. The image enables us to face hard truths; the word enables us to live with the hard questions.
Inquiries about artwork - originals, prints, or notecards - should be addressed to me at: shepaintspoetry@gmail.com
For a number of years, in Sewanee, TN, I had my own gallery, the Sargent Gallery, named for my grandmother, the artist, Margarett Sargent. I billed it as “Fine Art, Fun Art and Folk Art.” There was something for everyone. From local artists to national and international, the focus was on original work. Many of the people who bought from the gallery had never bought a piece of original artwork before. It was my commitment then and still is today to be flexible with prices and help people start their own art collections.
WRITINGS AND WORD IMAGES
The Interview: Samantha Warburton's interview of me on writing and art for Up.St.Art Magazine, the extraordinary Annapolis art magazine. A link to the article, the magazine, and Allison Zaucha's portfolio of photographs of yours truly is provided.
The Bloggy Stuff: Well, that’s what Scott called it! Figured if it was going to be there it should get its own page, no?
Guns and Drums: A collection of poems first done as a reading, it saw limited print form. In these poems, voices speak on war, from WWI through Iraq and Afghanistan, different voices, varied perspectives. I did drawings for many of these poems. Poems, drawings and recordings will come and go from this page.
What Happened on the Denton Road: Eleven poems, one story. The story of girls gone missing. The intention of the piece was always to be a performance piece, thus there are sections from poems but not the whole poem. In time, perhaps...