Art by Alana Holst

ORIGINAL FINE ART FOR SALE:
Twisted
Acrylic on canvas, sides painted
12" w x 36" tall
$520.00
www.artbyalanaholst.com

Available for pick-up near High River, or for shipping (shipping charges extra)

ORIGINAL FINE ART FOR SALE:
Where the Horses Were
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, framed
31" w x 23" tall
$900.00

Available for pick-up near High River, or shipping (shipping charges extra)

Fab Over 40

I made the first cut!! (But barely)

Did you know, this competition is in support the
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I have a set of four questions that I really need input on, as part of my Artist in Business Mentorship. I need quite a number of answers from people who like and appreciate my work, so, I am going to post them here, and hope that I get responses. Please copy the questions and send me your answers in a PM. Thank you so much to any of you who can answer these questions for me. This is about trying to find my ideal buyers. I am not asking you to purchase anything, just for your input. 🎨 I do need answers as soon as possible. 🙏

1. What was the first thing you felt when you saw my work?

2. What does my work remind you of?

3. How would you describe my work, in your own words? (Please be as detailed as possible)

4. When it comes to finding the beauty in everyday things that society typically views as worthless or of having no value (ie. falling down houses, barns, overgrown sheds, old cracked, bare, splitting, peeling wood, rusty relics, etc) what is your single greatest challenge (in being able to see/find that beauty in these types of things)?

If you need to view my work again in order to answer these questions, my website is www.artbyalanaholst.com

Thank to all!!!

I am really working on building my art business as part of a mentorship program. Right now, it's all about building the business, so that it can support my artistic career in the future. I would deeply appreciate your follow on my Instagram page . 🙏. In the coming weeks I will be looking for input into my business and I need a following of art lovers who appreciate my work to interact with me and help to shape the future of my art business.

You can also check out my work for sale here: http://www.artbyalanaholst.com

Photo: JUGS, acrylic on back-framed hardboard
36" x 48"
$4,330.00 CAN, plus shipping (available for pick-up in High River)

Thank you for reading!!!

Please visit my website and online shop at http://www.artbyalanaholst.com

Please visit my profile and consider voting for me 😇 🙏

Is Alana Holst Fab Over 40? You Decide! Who will be featured in NewBeauty magazine, take home $40,000, and experience the spa-cation of a lifetime?

So ..... I've been short-listed in the Fab Over 40 contest!!! Voting opens October 9th and I would SOOOOOOOO appreciate all your votes?!

Is Alana Holst Fab Over 40? You Decide! Who will be featured in NewBeauty magazine, take home $40,000, and experience the spa-cation of a lifetime?

"Jugs"
Jugs invites you to step into a forgotten world where time slows, and the beauty of imperfection reigns supreme. This large-format original acrylic painting captures a scene of nostalgia and contemplation.

In this composition, the spotlight falls on old, rusted dairy cans nestled within the confines of a weathered shed. Each detail of these once-utilitarian objects is masterfully textured, giving them an almost tactile presence that draws you into their history. The rust, the dents, the years of service—all beautifully portrayed to remind us of the resilience and character that age bestows upon the simplest of things.

As your gaze moves beyond the dairy cans, you're met with the sight of an old barn, its paint peeling gracefully, offering glimpses of the layers beneath. Nature reclaims its territory with a flourish of overgrowth, as if painting its own story of renewal upon the canvas of this rustic backdrop.

Jugs evokes a sense of timelessness, inviting viewers to reflect on the allure of the past, a time when life unfolded at a gentler pace. It's a tribute to the notion that beauty exists not only in pristine perfection but also in the patina of age, in the blemishes that whisper stories of a life well-lived.

With each brushstroke, this painting beckons you to rediscover the enchantment hidden within the forgotten and the aged, to see the world through a lens that cherishes the inherent beauty of all things, however weathered by time.

Allow Jugs to transport you to a simpler era, where the passage of time enhances rather than diminishes, and where the overlooked becomes a mesmerizing work of art.

Please visit my website: https://art-by-alana-holst.square.site/

Hi everyone. I have been starting to work on my business, as far as the back end of things. I finally have a place where you can shop my work online. Please check it out! Would love it if you'd share!

art-by-alana-holst.square.site

Hi friends!! If you don't already know, or you did know, but haven't followed me, I am an artist/Acrylic painter. My passion is for old, abandoned, falling down buildings and featuring how truly beautiful they actually are, in all their textures and peeling paint and stunning imperfections. I would so appreciate your follow, and please share!!!!! I appreciate you!!!

Guesses as to what this is?

Took me 3 years, but I finally finished this piece!

JUGS
Acrylic on Board
54" x 36"
$2,330.00

I am back at this piece that I started back in 2019!! This piece is kind of my nemises. It haunts me. "You cant finish me, I'm too hard, who do you think you are? you've bitten off more than you can chew! Nah na nah boo boo!" I will finish this piece! I have so many long days into this piece, just not all together!!! You can look back through this page at old progress shots. Let me know in the comments what you think! Still a few days to go on this piece. It's very large. "Jugs"

Finished Work.
Title: Twisted
Acrylic on Canvas
12" x 36"
$520.00
Did you know, you can shop my work through my Gallery Facebook Shop?
https://www.facebook.com/bigrockart/shop...
You can also visit me on my website at www.bigrockhubgallery.com

Finished

Autumn Glow
12" x 12"
Acrylic on Canvas

Aspen Lights
12" x 12"
Acrylic on Canvas

Sunset Through The Aspens
20" x 20"
Acrylic on Canvas

Working on a new piece this week

I packed up all my supplies and headed off to Canmore for a break...to relax, rejuvinate and PAINT, before my regular world gets crazy busy again. Ive got two new peices in various states of drying. Thanks to my hubby for holding down the fort so that I could have this time ❤

Latest work.
Aspen Lights
12" x 12"
Acrylic on Canvas
$290.00

Latest work.

Title: Imbued
Size: 24" x 48"
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Price: $1,200

Hahaha

Another progress shot of "Jugs". Hoping to spend the remainder of today in my studio with this piece.

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Working on this large painting again, "Jugs" after taking time off for Christmas. Soon my other passion and full-time job will be getting busy again and I'll have to split my time. Hoping to knock this piece out before then. This piece, along with several other pieces currently on display, will be available for sale.

Have a space in your home that's crying out for something special? Commissions are happily accepted.

— in High River, Alberta.

Sad. There is such a disconnect between artists and the art society. Art should be something that you love, that moves you, that brings about a feeling or a casts a memory, it should be something you cherish and just love to have around you. It should never be about politics or shock value or God Forbid, a joke. Please buy art from an artist, a flesh and blood human, not a mass-production machine. Please buy art that you love and cherish, not art that matches your decor. Purchase art from an artist who has left their passion on the canvas. Buy art that shows you a glimpse of what matters to the artist. Buy art you connect with, feel, that brings about emotion in you, or memory or that tells a story. Buy art that moves you, be that in a painful way, a beautiful way or a joyous way. Don't buy art because someone told you too, or that you think will appreciate in value. Buy art for you and for the now. This cartoon doesn't feature art...it features a gimmick, a joke. One day you will miss the artists who took years and devoted their lives to honing their craft and their skill and their voice. Don't let real artists die before you ever realize the true value they bring.

Just Finished this new piece. It's the latest piece in my "Blue Doors" series.
Title: 'Wired'
Artist: Alana Holst
Size: 18 x 24
Medium: Acrylic on board
$520.00

End of day progress shot. I'm tired. Even though I'm jammin'away to Harry Connick Jr...time to rest. I'll be back at it tomorrow, so, stay tuned!!!