New Local Artist on the Art Wall

The quarter has already shifted and that means Eclectic Healing Guide has a new local artist on the Art Wall. The next three months (September to November) I will be showing the creative works of Anne Yates. Again if you fall in love with the art you see here, I will provide you with a means to contact the artist so that you can purchase the next addition to your home or office. If you would like to see a piece up close feel free to schedule a viewing time and a massage (to schedule go to www.colettemassage.com).

Who is Anne Yates:

In May 2000 Anne Price Yates joined a group of plein air painters in Provence, France. The experience initiated her current style, which is more impressionistic than her earlier work. In September 2001 at the Desert Empire Fair, Ridgecrest, California, the four paintings Anne entered in the competition in the professional category took first, second, and third place and also honorable mention.

Paintings of Anne Price Yates have been exhibited in California, both in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the high desert, as well as in Manhattan—in SOHO and Chelsea galleries. In late 2007 and early 2008, some of her French paintings were shown at the Kingstad Gallery in Beaverton, Oregon. In March she exhibited at the Riviera Country Club’s 24th Annual Exhibit in
Coral Gables, Florida. Her giclées are available either from her or from the Coleman Studios in Orem, Utah (Colemanart.com).

At the age of four, Anne was asked by neighborhood children to draw pictures for them. At age 10, she was a student in the Carnegie Institute’s (Carnegie Museum of Art) Tam-O-Shanter Saturday classes in Pittsburgh and continued in the Saturday Palette classes as a teenager. Anne began painting with oils at 11 or 12. As a young teen, she won several awards for her painting, including the gold key in Kaufmann’s Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit and first place in a Florida state art contest by the Florida Division of the American Association of University Women.

Anne was among the youngest of 16 students between the ages of 14 and 16 selected to research, design, and paint four large backdrop murals for a major exhibition of Medieval and Renaissance Arms and Armor at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh (see Carnegie Magazine, Nov. 1953, pp. 300-305). The project was covered by the local newspapers, KDKA television station, and Life Magazine. Anne is shown here, on the cover of The Pittsburgh Press Roto Magazine (Sunday, September 6, 1953) with artist Jack Butler.

By the time she studied Art at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Anne was focused primarily on figure drawing. Her interest in the human form was evident in both her drawing and painting, although her work included an occasional landscape. Her portrait work was usually in either colored pencil or graphite.

 

The Art on the Wall:

 

To view more of Anne's work you can visit her online gallery at www.annepriceyates.com
You can contact Anne at AHPYates@gmail.com, for prices or other information.
To schedule an in office viewing go to www.colettemassage.com

Thank you very much for supporting this local artist.

 

Eclectic Healing Guide's Art Wall

Artist Wall

What is the Artist Wall
In an effort to support the talented people in my life and fill my office with beauty that inspires relaxation, I have created the Artist Wall.
One wall in my Office is devoted to serving as an artist gallory. All the art is for scale benefiting the artist.
If you come into my office and fall in love with one of the pieces you can become its owner and take the feeling it provided you home with you. If you can't make it into the office but see a piece you would like to purchase you can contact the artist directly and I can make arrangements for you to pick up your art.

How can you or an artist you know become part of the wall
Just contact me. Send me a link to your work. If I feel it will blend with the decore and feel of my space then we will make arrangements for you to display your art. The theme of my office is Asian/French, Eclecticly Zen.
Each artist's work is on display for three months. I hope to have a meet and greet the artist night for each artist as everyone's schedule allows.

My Current Artist
About Paz and her work:
For Paz, painting is an intuitive journey. She approaches her work completely open to what might happen, to the process of emotion, spirit, thought and impulse interacting with the media. She is never attached to the outcome, only the experience. The experience, unpredictable and exciting, allows the final piece to emerge. Light, color, texture and compostition prove the form that connects her inner world of spirit and emotion to the shared reality of the earth-world, a platform that becomes the painting. The movement is great or small, bold or timid, loud or soft, just as the relationship of spirit is with the physical realm. She truly loves this experience and loves to paint.
Wheile Paz travels often to mexico, she calls Portland her home. She lives here in Portland.
To contact Paz for more information: Email her at redwind_7@hotmal.com


What's on the Wall Today

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Medicinal Benefits of Hops as Related to Your Muscles

Most of us know Hops as it is related to beer. But there is more to hops than just giving beer its taste, and going along with pizza and sporting events.

I was originally introduced to the benefits of Hops from a friend who told me about an old wives tale of adding beer to Epsom salts and hot bath water to help decrease muscle pain.  This was long before I started practicing massage or even receiving massage.  One night after a hard day of work and coming home with sore muscles I decided to try this remedy. To my amazement, I ended up falling asleep in the tub and waking feeling like a wet noodle. I dried off and went right to bed. I felt great the next morning and now use this remedy anytime I need fast relief and cannot get a massage. Sometimes I’ll even use it after a massage just to ensure better results for myself.

Though there is not much conclusive research about the medicinal benefits nor exactly what aspects of the plant’s chemical make-up help reduce muscle pain and support joint functioning, recently the International Society for Horticultural Science did publish a study that does support its medicinal uses.

Hops is named after its fruit. It is related to the cannabis family and is native to the Northern hemisphere.

What I can gather, Hops has a high source of Vit B3 (Niacin), Vit C, Manganese, Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium, Valerianic Acid.  The aroma of Hops can enter the limbic system.  It would be the combined work of Hops’ Valerianic Acid and its ability to affect the limbic system, that a person can become drowsy. The hops can also cross the blood brain barrier which is another route to the limbic system. The Vit B3 affecting the peripheral circulation can help bring new blood and oxygen to the muscles. While Vit C can help decrease inflammation and help with muscle repair. The Minerals can all help with regaining electrolyte balance and help ease muscle soreness. When combined with Epsom salts, which also contains Magnesium and hot water, we achieve a synergistic affect and more benefits occur.

I have not yet tried buying dried hops and boiling them to add to hot bath water and Epsom salts but I think it would have the same effect as using beer. I have been told you can put the hobs in cheese cloth and add that to the bath water allowing it to brew in the tub. I use what I consider cheap beer, but you can use whatever is handy.

Now you have some idea of other uses of your beer.

As always, make sure to consult your doctor before using any plant or substance that can affect your health. And also remember that if a medicine you already take achieves the same result, taking a plant on top of that will increase any positive or negative effects. Therefore, only use one and if possible go the natural route especially if you have the support of a Naturopathic Doctor.