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BIOGRAPHY ESTHER MUELLER Aboriginal / Native Artist |
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BIOGRAPHY ESTHER MUELLER Aboriginal / Native Artist |
| BIOGRAPHY ESTHER MUELLER - Aboriginal / Native Artist Esther Mueller is a Canadian Aboriginal Artist, from the Cariboo Chilcotin region of British Columbia Canada, and is a member of the Tlsilhqot’in - Chilcotin tribe. She has been painting for nine years and is a self taught artist. She works with oil on canvas, and acrylic on hand tanned buckskin hides. The oils on canvas are usually done in landscapes with a two-tone color, and also native designs that she draws and creates on her own. The work of her hand tanned buckskin paintings-dream catchers reflect her traditional back ground of being aboriginal from the area that she lives in. Her own unique style and images come from her own reflections of the nature-beauty that surround her in the rugged mountains of British Columbia, Canada. She can remember that she has always loved and appreciated art works. She use to tell her self that one day she would know how to paint, even though it seemed so far away at the time, with so many different things to know about oil colors, canvas, and brushes. After she taught her self to paint while studying books and reading at the library, she discovered the unique acrylic painting on hand tanned buckskin hides. She would acquire the hides that are tanned the traditional way, and begin to paint with her own designs that she created herself. She found the hides to be not forgivable when painting, as she could not scrape it off when she made a mistake, like canvas. It requires a lot of patience and is time consuming. She enjoys working with this kind of art, as it is unique and Challenging to her. Her art brings her close to her culture and heritage that she knows. As she studies the native ways and culture to try to regain what it was like to live in her peoples time and know their ways of life - through this she believes comes her designs for her art work. She looks forward to sharing her art work with the world, and hopes they can enjoy it and appreciate it as much as she enjoys creating the art. |
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Away in a Circle Buckskin Painting
with a Dream catcher design Title: Away in a Circle |
This hand tanned buckskin (deer) hide is tanned the traditional native-Indian way. This is an ever so dying traditional native art that is becoming extinct within the aboriginal communities of the Chilcotin region. It is a labor intense process, and when finished the hide can be either smoked with pine cones or left white, as this one is left white. The design of the dream catcher is painted in acrylic-oil colors. The design comes from the Artists own images and represents a far away distance of a dream within the circle. She captures her own images within herself from being raised in the rugged country of British Columbia, Canada. |
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