Cherie Fontenot is a multi-media creator living in Seattle and filling in the blank spots on the map every chance she gets.

My inspiration for making art is to capture the ephemeral moment of the numinous in the everyday. While the mystical might not come through for the viewer, as each person sees their faith and the sacred in different ways, it is my way of capturing that for myself. Much of my work is abstraction and distractions of landscape, where god and man touch. In this work, I am not capturing the landscape per se, but capturing how it makes me feel at the time, through its shape, colors, and texture.  These artistic moments well up in me like a conversation with a lost friend. The central ideas in my work are landscapes, impermanence, and escape.

As one might experience the Rothko Chapel, the Ukiyo-e of Yoshitoshi, the great northern landscapes of Lawren Harris, or the black potteries of the Longshan or Puebloan cultures, I strive to make the simple sublime.