As a third generation artist trained in drawing and introduced to oil painting by my paternal grandmother, I completed a program in Commercial Illustration at Gulf States Art School, in Birmingham, Alabama. After a bachelor's degree from UAB and Excelsior, and a 30 year technical career in computer and aerospace technical writing, I found my love of environmental responsibility led me to *voice* my concern and enthusiasm in visual art. Using multiforms of mixed media art of all kinds, most often using waste-stream or recyclable harvested materials, I have created sculptures and mosaics, performed decorative painting to repurpose furniture, and hand produced books and booklets.
How I became *Eagleturtle.* As a child of nine, my maternal great-grandmother introduced me to a sort of vision-quest where we determined that my soul-representative animal was a turtle, and she called me her little turtle as long as she lived. Later, when I began piloting small aircraft, I took on a nickname of Flying-Turtle, then Aero-Turtle. Later yet, I met and married a remarkable and wonderful man whose surname is *Yarnell* which I learned means *cliffs where eagles dwell.* We named our corporation *Eaglecliff* and now the more organic art-identifier revealed itself as Eagleturtle.*
My art signature is similar to a Japanese-culture Hanko or Inkan or *Artist's Chop*
I *sign* my work with an *Art Signature Chop* that uses my initials formed into a symbolic Turtle shape, sometimes with Wings, and sometimes with only feathers to represent flight.
This Japanese-style personal logo is natural because of my enthusiasm for Japanese philosophy, calligraphy, art (especially wabi-sabi), and crafts (such as kintsugi), and haiku poetry. Hence I have adapted a similar type of *seal* called an inkan or hanko, or in British English a *chop* as my creative identifier used in lieu of a written signature. On paper products I might use a stamp, or a digital rendering, but often I will actually complete the *chop* by rendering strokes to execute my personal initials forming my symbolic turtle-shaped-token enhanced with two pseudo-eagle feathers on its carapace. The result also seems appropriate for an artist who is exalting nature and promoting sustainability.
[In Japan, an inkan or a hanko is a seal corresponding to a signature which can be stamped onto documents and used for most of the legal acts and contracts involving its owner.]
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Eagleturtle produces mystical visual art in various media, from photography, painting, digital art, to multimedia collage and sculpture. Many Eagleturtle renderings include celebration of early indigenous peoples of northern europe, ancient sumeria, india, the mediteranean, australia, america and cultural diversity in many forms.
Mountings and presentation for paintings, photography, and digital art are also created by the artist using re-captured post-consumer materials.
Sculpture is produced from waste-stream-rescued artifacts --as well as natural landscape harvested materials-- using Eagleturtle's signature *art-cycling* techniques, including recycled components of old furniture and upgraded painted or enhanced surfaces.
![ As a third generation artist trained in drawing and introduced to oil painting by my paternal grandmother, I completed a program in Commercial Illustration at Gulf States Art School, in Birmingham, Alabama. After a bachelor's degree from UAB and Excelsior, and a 30 year technical career in computer and aerospace technical writing, I found my love of environmental responsibility led me to *voice* my concern and enthusiasm in visual art. Using multiforms of mixed media art of all kinds, most often using waste-stream or recyclable harvested materials, I have created sculptures and mosaics, performed decorative painting to repurpose furniture, and hand produced books and booklets.
How I became *Eagleturtle.* As a child of nine, my maternal great-grandmother introduced me to a sort of vision-quest where we determined that my soul-representative animal was a turtle, and she called me her little turtle as long as she lived. Later, when I began piloting small aircraft, I took on a nickname of Flying-Turtle, then Aero-Turtle. Later yet, I met and married a remarkable and wonderful man whose surname is *Yarnell* which I learned means *cliffs where eagles dwell.* We named our corporation *Eaglecliff* and now the more organic art-identifier revealed itself as Eagleturtle.*
My art signature is similar to a Japanese-culture Hanko or Inkan or *Artist's Chop*
I *sign* my work with an *Art Signature Chop* that uses my initials formed into a symbolic Turtle shape, sometimes with Wings, and sometimes with only feathers to represent flight.
This Japanese-style personal logo is natural because of my enthusiasm for Japanese philosophy, calligraphy, art (especially wabi-sabi), and crafts (such as kintsugi), and haiku poetry. Hence I have adapted a similar type of *seal* called an inkan or hanko, or in British English a *chop* as my creative identifier used in lieu of a written signature. On paper products I might use a stamp, or a digital rendering, but often I will actually complete the *chop* by rendering strokes to execute my personal initials forming my symbolic turtle-shaped-token enhanced with two pseudo-eagle feathers on its carapace. The result also seems appropriate for an artist who is exalting nature and promoting sustainability.
[In Japan, an inkan or a hanko is a seal corresponding to a signature which can be stamped onto documents and used for most of the legal acts and contracts involving its owner.]
/////ooooo-----/////\\\\\------ooooo\\\\\
Eagleturtle produces mystical visual art in various media, from photography, painting, digital art, to multimedia collage and sculpture. Many Eagleturtle renderings include celebration of early indigenous peoples of northern europe, ancient sumeria, india, the mediteranean, australia, america and cultural diversity in many forms.
Mountings and presentation for paintings, photography, and digital art are also created by the artist using re-captured post-consumer materials.
Sculpture is produced from waste-stream-rescued artifacts --as well as natural landscape harvested materials-- using Eagleturtle's signature *art-cycling* techniques, including recycled components of old furniture and upgraded painted or enhanced surfaces.](https://sitestorage.art.art/eagleturtle.art/967b553bef10e0bd156311bcfa92d7b9.jpeg)