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"Bubbling up in our own good time-- online."
| Alix Mosieur |
Biography:
Alix Mosieur of Lorane, Oregon kindly volunteered to draw the Groundwaters cover art using
pen and ink for this issue featuring the theme, “crow.”
The great-great granddaughter of a “Nez Perce/Blackfoot,” Alix Mosieur has been painting all
of her life. She grew up in California and moved to Lorane in 1970, where she and her
husband Bruce started showing her work at art fairs. She and Bruce formed their own
company, Red Horse Art Co., in the early 1990s and are now... according to Alix... “making our
living with our work, which is nice, since neither one of us has a job!” Bruce does all the
woodworking and sanding and finishing to form interesting and unique backgrounds for Alix’s
work. Alix proclaims to be mostly self-taught although she did study art at Santa Barbara City
College and at the University of Oregon. Alix’s rich artwork is diverse, but her first love and
consuming interest is in painting portraits of Native American Indians, concentrating on the
great chiefs involved in the Indian Wars of the 1800s. She is also known for her wonderful
portrayal of the natural beauty of the horse, the wolf, the deer, the bear and other wildlife
found in the Western United States. Besides her earlier work with oil on canvas, Alix has
become very successful with her pen and ink drawings on slabs of wood, gourds, and even
musical instruments. She’s also successfully used watercolors, acrylics, and colored pencils.
She and Bruce have joined forces to provide one-of-a-kind artwork on custom-built tables,
screens and mirrors, as well. They have now scaled back on the art fairs and are represented
by art galleries and gift stores in multiple states and along the Oregon Coast.
Alix also graciously volunteers her services to S.A.R.A.(Shelter Animal Resource Alliance)
which has been rescuing, assisting and advocating for Shelter Animals in Lane County,
Oregon since 2001. For a minimum donation of $25 per portrait to S.A.R.A., Alix will create a
beautiful 8" x 10" color pencil drawing (suitable for framing) of your dog, cat, horse or other
companion animal. All proceeds go toward rescuing shelter animals in Western Oregon. For
more information, call 541-607-8892. (Summer 2007)
I’ve been making art since I was 5, starting with my first love, horses, which I drew endlessly
on any surface I could find in any media that didn’t disintegrate in my hand. But, by the age of
8, there were Indians on my horses and in my head and its been that way ever since.
When I was 16, I learned I may have Native American ancestry, and that really built a fire
under me. I amassed hundreds of books on the history of the Plains Indians so that, later,
when I was commissioned to paint the famous chiefs from the wars of the 1860’s and 1870’s I
knew a lot about who they were and what contributions they had made to their people and
their land. Their stories are as amazing and heart-rending as their strong and courageous
faces. Chief Joseph is probably the best known and most awe-inspiring of them all. His tribe,
the Nez Perce, originated in the Pacific Northwest. He is a hero to me in so many ways and he
worked until the end of his days to bring peace, freedom and justice to his people.” (Fall 2009)
Website address: http://www.olympicartgallery.com/Red Horse Art.htm
Index of Groundwaters contributions:
Volume 3 Issue 4 - cover art
Volume 6 Issue 1 - cover art
Alix Mosieur of Lorane, Oregon kindly volunteered to draw the Groundwaters cover art using
pen and ink for this issue featuring the theme, “crow.”
The great-great granddaughter of a “Nez Perce/Blackfoot,” Alix Mosieur has been painting all
of her life. She grew up in California and moved to Lorane in 1970, where she and her
husband Bruce started showing her work at art fairs. She and Bruce formed their own
company, Red Horse Art Co., in the early 1990s and are now... according to Alix... “making our
living with our work, which is nice, since neither one of us has a job!” Bruce does all the
woodworking and sanding and finishing to form interesting and unique backgrounds for Alix’s
work. Alix proclaims to be mostly self-taught although she did study art at Santa Barbara City
College and at the University of Oregon. Alix’s rich artwork is diverse, but her first love and
consuming interest is in painting portraits of Native American Indians, concentrating on the
great chiefs involved in the Indian Wars of the 1800s. She is also known for her wonderful
portrayal of the natural beauty of the horse, the wolf, the deer, the bear and other wildlife
found in the Western United States. Besides her earlier work with oil on canvas, Alix has
become very successful with her pen and ink drawings on slabs of wood, gourds, and even
musical instruments. She’s also successfully used watercolors, acrylics, and colored pencils.
She and Bruce have joined forces to provide one-of-a-kind artwork on custom-built tables,
screens and mirrors, as well. They have now scaled back on the art fairs and are represented
by art galleries and gift stores in multiple states and along the Oregon Coast.
Alix also graciously volunteers her services to S.A.R.A.(Shelter Animal Resource Alliance)
which has been rescuing, assisting and advocating for Shelter Animals in Lane County,
Oregon since 2001. For a minimum donation of $25 per portrait to S.A.R.A., Alix will create a
beautiful 8" x 10" color pencil drawing (suitable for framing) of your dog, cat, horse or other
companion animal. All proceeds go toward rescuing shelter animals in Western Oregon. For
more information, call 541-607-8892. (Summer 2007)
I’ve been making art since I was 5, starting with my first love, horses, which I drew endlessly
on any surface I could find in any media that didn’t disintegrate in my hand. But, by the age of
8, there were Indians on my horses and in my head and its been that way ever since.
When I was 16, I learned I may have Native American ancestry, and that really built a fire
under me. I amassed hundreds of books on the history of the Plains Indians so that, later,
when I was commissioned to paint the famous chiefs from the wars of the 1860’s and 1870’s I
knew a lot about who they were and what contributions they had made to their people and
their land. Their stories are as amazing and heart-rending as their strong and courageous
faces. Chief Joseph is probably the best known and most awe-inspiring of them all. His tribe,
the Nez Perce, originated in the Pacific Northwest. He is a hero to me in so many ways and he
worked until the end of his days to bring peace, freedom and justice to his people.” (Fall 2009)
Website address: http://www.olympicartgallery.com/Red Horse Art.htm
Index of Groundwaters contributions:
Volume 3 Issue 4 - cover art
Volume 6 Issue 1 - cover art
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