Alana Garrigues: Intuitive Artist, Poet

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Alana Garrigues: Intuitive Artist, Poet

"The Tree Lady!" Artist and Poet working in communion with nature, intuition, and beautiful creative souls.

01/17/2026

Between all the rest of it, we make time for play and joy.

"Play!" opens Jan 22 at the Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery. The group exhibit promises to be a lot of fun!

My community loom made out of an old window frame will be included... stop by and add to its story! There's plenty of yarn... I look forward to seeing what your imagination and hands to contribute to the finished piece. ✨

We change the world not only through resistance, but also in creating the spaces and energies we wish to grow.

Sending love and joy, dear ones. 🫶🏻

10/21/2025

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grateful for collectors, creative pivots, artist grants, and aligned opportunities to exhibit

a million thanks to artsworcester and the new patrons who will be taking this work into their spaces ✨ may you be blessed with the sense of reverence and devotion imbued in this work

10/03/2025

So grateful for this awesome arts coverage in the local town paper, The Landmark!

Fellow Holden resident Dominic Quagliozzi and I were each awarded ArtsWorcester grants in the 2024-25 cycle, and our shows are up in Worcester now.

It was a fun coincidence to be able to meet another local artist... who also happens to have a history of residing in L.A. County for a decade or so overlapping my time there! Love these threads of synchronicity. Extra fun to see this story feature about both of our work!

Feels full circle from my journalist days at The Beach Reporter... if you know, you know! ☺️

✨✨✨We'll both be at ArtsWorcester tomorrow afternoon, along with with five more awesome artists in the show: .maclure and Susan Slepetz. ✨✨✨

📢Meet the Artists runs from 1-3 pm. Light refreshments! I'll be there from about 1:30. 🎉

Bonus: the work in this show travels deep into intersectional justice with themes of disability justice, racial justice, environmental justice, and mental health.

Wanna connect about things you care about?

Let's commune over art and bend that arc and trajectory back toward justice. ✨

06/19/2025

Nearly five years ago, I began publicly sharing my Journal for Justice project: a quiet way to meet one's self on the page in art or words or stickers or collected quotes or lists. Or anything that might relate onto the page one's most inner self's beliefs of what is true and just and beautiful.

Its roots go back many years as intermittent moments to soothe the anxiety in my own journal.

It grew into public practice as a way to welcome and invite others into the calming (and also invigorating) practice that I was using in shaping my self, my world, my conversations.

I envisioned 40 days as a nod to a sustainable practice, a built habit, and a highly symbolic number. I have since dropped the 40 because it feels at once too long and too short. And I believe from initial engagement, it is a practice that will hold space for a person as often as needed throughout a lifetime.

I am forever grateful to for accepting my invitation and becoming a sounding board, an accountability check, a wise guide, and an enthusiastic partner that first summer.

In my own life, the journal waxes and wanes.

These are some journal pages I have created.

Do you see the page welcoming your input? Comment or DM me and I will add your energy of justice and love to the Together We Will page.

If you would be interested in coming together every so often to make journal pages and build creative activist artivist community, I've created a free Patreon. First (also free) gathering date TBD.

I'll post occasional links for online gatherings at the intersection of art and justice there. (Your info is private! I don't even see your email outside of paid members.) I'm more comfortable sharing a link there than on a completely public site, considering the content and the current moment.

The Patreon site is in my bio if you want to be the first to know.

Please feel free to share with loved ones.

All who believe in intersectional justice and creative and collective liberation are welcome.

No one is perfect---most definitely including me.

A gentle and kind calling in is always welcome. Courage over comfort. Process over production. Elasticity over certainty. ❤️

11/24/2024

❤️❤️❤️So grateful today❤️❤️❤️

11/20/2024

Catch the show before it comes down at the end of the month!

I'll be doing an artist talk about my RE•CLAIM solo show this Saturday at 4 pm in the Grassroots Gallery (downstairs at New Dawn Arts Center), immediately following the Massachusetts Women's Caucus for Art reception in the upstairs gallery (2-4 pm).

Come hang out!

If you can't catch it this Saturday the gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday 9 am - 6 pm and Sundays 10 am - 2 pm. Closed Mondays and holidays.

I'm still working on getting the show up on my website for those who want to catch it virtually instead.

10/27/2024

I love how my tree painting is hanging out with these fellow earthy vibes at the Flora & Fauna show, up now thru Dec. 14 at the Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery at Worcester State.

Seriously in love with the vibe and wishing I could just move the whole show into my living room. ;)

I am so sorry I didn't snap photos of all the IG handles for surrounding artists on opening night!! But it's a good reason to go back to the show soon so I can tag everyone.

In the meantime, if you know the artists, please let me know and I'd love to add their tags.

It's a beautiful show with so many pockets of nature's colors, from this soil and tree-colored corner to bright, vibrant flora and fauna to sweet dreamy pastels.

There are photographs, textiles, sculpture, assemblage, paintings, creations that I cannot figure out for the life of me how the artists achieved them... so much good stuff.

Many thanks to for holding the exhibit and to and Rachael Drinker for jurying the show and including this piece. So fun chatting with fellow artists at the opening!

Also many thanks to who sent me pictures of an ancient tree in the BC rainforest that inspired the radial cracks without rings in this painting. 😘

Well worth a visit, especially as colors fade and we all need a boost of bright color!

(Swipe for a close-up.)

10/11/2024

✨ Walk into a storybook with me? ✨

I couldn't resist posting beyond the stories. Amazing.

I will admit at first when I saw the bright pink more than an hour after sunset (while taking out the trash), I was afraid it meant there was a chemical fire in the nearest city.

Luckily when I walked back in the house, I found a text message from a friend who lives an hour away with the same bright sky and I knew it couldn't be what I had feared.

I think one of the coolest things is that you can still see the stars within the pinks and purples.

No green lights for me... surely because the horizon is hidden by lovely green-growth-of-the-land.

So, so beautiful and unexpected.

09/23/2024

And I wonder why my hips and back tire by the end of the day... 😂

At some point in painting anything larger than a foot, I end up a floor troll... limbs cubed up like this, or in a deep squat with my torso extended over the painting.

I just can't help myself! It's sort of like being barefoot or kissing my hand before setting palm to bark to greet a tree.

I am more ground than sky.

It is the earth that holds me and sustains my creative practice, be it soil or floor.

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I am days away from dropping off my work at the New Dawn Arts Center for a solo show in October and November, and now it's pretty much just final touches. A lot of final touches, but final touches.

There will be 26 pieces in the exhibit, give or take a couple (part of final touches is always final curation), ranging from the itty bitty 3x3 inches up to quite large... more than 3 feet by 3 feet and another more than 4 1/2 feet tall.

My studio is getting emptier and emptier as I move readied work to the staging area.

Physically, mentally and emotionally, preparing for a solo show or a small group show that incorporates multiple pieces is exhausting. But oh so worth it.

I'm working on a blog post about why in the world an artist puts themselves through the arduous experience... I shall share when it's ready. ❤️

And of course I can't wait to share more pictures of the pieces themselves. And I really can't wait to stand in the space of the Grassroots Gallery at NDAC with the work up and hung by Abby at NDAC and see all the unspoken, unknown stories and threads of connection that come through only in witnessing a body of work all together, outside the artists's own studio.

Send me love and luck and sleep as I approach the finish line!

xoxox,
Alana

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09/17/2024

You'll have to wait to see the *new* new work (tho a couple of these are new/never before displayed), but... I just wanted to share that I pulled some of the pieces together and out of the corners of my home and studio (stacked a couple deep still) to relax my mind around what still lies ahead in the prep,and...

It just never ceases to boggle the mind when I see what I created together as a body of work.

This show is called RE•CLAIM and it includes tree paintings as well as other work, the majority of it (like 85% of it) from reclaimed building materials or upcycled stuff, so it will be interesting to see the additional variety of substrate and theme hang out all together, but in the meantime...

just...

taking a moment to acknowledge that this all came from me and through me and that is pretty cool.

If I can invite people to do one thing that invites self wonder and awe, it is to follow a curiosity and make something. Anything! Food, garden, poem, furniture... just to see what can be created.

In other news, I'm celebrating that I've recently licensed a tree ring painting that will be reproduced and used in MA DCF buildings, hopefully bringing a moment of calm to children and families experiencing a stressful time.

It means a lot to extend my artwork beyond my immediate reach, so if you know of public spaces looking to beautify their environment through licensing or original artwork, I truly appreciate those moments when someone puts my name in the pot. ☺️✨

Address

Worcester, MA
01601–01610, 01612–01615, 01653–01655

Website

http://www.alanagarrigues.com/, https://patreon.com/alanaofloveandlight

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