Mural Artists
Juliene Sinclair
Juliene Sinclair is a Bozeman-based professional engineer and artist that has had a variety of artistic and cultural influences from around the world stemming from living and traveling internationally as well as in different areas of the United States. However, after six years of calling Montana home, her main inspiration has become the epic landscapes and wildlife of her surroundings. The spirituality she wove into her earlier portraits is making its way into her newer landscape- and wildlife- inspired pieces in an attempt to capture that distinctly soul-fulfilling feeling one gets when communing with nature.
Spending many of her younger years in Europe being surrounded by street art, she has been taking her art to the streets to enliven public spaces. She believes that public spaces should bring us joy and is constantly looking for the next opportunity to beautify a wall in need of some artistic love. When Juliene heard about the Montana Mural Project, she was so excited about it that despite her packed summer schedule she offered to paint the first mural to get the project moving along. She is grateful for the opportunity to bring the spirit of the endangered whooping crane to a public space, which will beautify the area and bring awareness to this majestic bird in peril.
You can find more about Juliene on her website at www.julienesinclair.com and follow her on her artistic journey on Instagram at @julienestudios.
Spending many of her younger years in Europe being surrounded by street art, she has been taking her art to the streets to enliven public spaces. She believes that public spaces should bring us joy and is constantly looking for the next opportunity to beautify a wall in need of some artistic love. When Juliene heard about the Montana Mural Project, she was so excited about it that despite her packed summer schedule she offered to paint the first mural to get the project moving along. She is grateful for the opportunity to bring the spirit of the endangered whooping crane to a public space, which will beautify the area and bring awareness to this majestic bird in peril.
You can find more about Juliene on her website at www.julienesinclair.com and follow her on her artistic journey on Instagram at @julienestudios.
Robert Rath
Robert Rath collects hyphens. Currently, he’s an illustrator-designer-author-art director-dog walker living in Bozeman. In addition to freelance graphic design and illustration, he is teaching graphic design at Montana State University–Bozeman and has his artwork showing in the Artist's Gallery at the Emerson Cultural Center. His clients include Lucasfilm, Scholastic Books, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, and many others. He isn’t allergic to anything, can’t remember names of housing subdivisions or birthdays, likes to cook, can wiggle his ears, and hates writing bios.
Griffin Foster
Griffin is a graduate of the North Carolina State University College of Design with a BLA in landscape architecture. He has been painting murals internationally for 10 years, exploring the dynamic relationship between public art and environmental design. By day his work revolves around revitalizing disturbed riparian corridors and master planning for ranches across Montana. Away from this work Griffin can be found in the backcountry analyzing environments through detailed plein air paintings.
You can contact Griffin at: ([email protected]
You can contact Griffin at: ([email protected]
Mimi Matsuda
Mimi Matsuda is a full time artist living in Bozeman, Montana.
Ever since childhood she has drawn animals and has been surrounded by them. She had pet chickens, rats, birds and fish as a kid and studied biology in school. She grew up exploring for salamanders, fishing for trout and watching birds and mammals in the evergreen forests of Oregon.
After graduating from college with a degree in biology, she worked her dream job in the National Parks, as a National Park Ranger Naturalist for Yellowstone and Grand Teton Parks.
Using her artwork to connect people with the natural environment led her to a new career as a full-time artist. Today she paints to encourage people to emotionally connect with nature, sometimes through sheer beauty, sometimes through humor. She hopes these connections will lead to preservation and protection of wild lands and animals.
Mimi works in soft pastels, acrylics, oils, watercolors, colored pencil, and enjoys the challenges of the variety of media.
Reproductions of her work are available. See more at: www.MimiMatsudaArt.com
Email: [email protected]
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