Watercolors of the Southwest
Allow the transformative powers of Butterfly to bring new color, light, and joy into your life.
May the Ancient Ones speak to you through enchanting images and stories of the Southwest. May the nurturing stones ground you on your many pathways of life's metamorphosis.
Be embraced by "Butterfly Visions," creative expressions of ruins, rock art, and ravines by southwest Colorado artist Jan Wright.
Be touched by her visionary watercolor paintings, cards and posters, shields and fans, medicine cards, and stories.
"Butterfly Visions" comes from the Hopi name she was given upon studying with a shaman and becoming a ceremonial and healing pipe carrier. Now she, like Butterfly, brings color, light, and inspiration through her artwork and stories, helping all to taste the sweet nectars of life.
Original Paintings ~ Taking Flight
Jan's intensely colorful and clearly defined watercolors lead you into the mysteries of canyon narrows, ancient cliff and pueblo dwellings, and enchanting southwest landscapes. Often a spirit animal or ancient being are suggested in the textures, shadows, or reflections within the painting, adding a spiritual wonder to an already mesmerizing scene.
Papillon Posters
Selected images of Jan's paintings were created into posters, including southwest scenes, a Kiva ladder with hidden animals, and a colorful Coyote tale collage.
Cost of each is $25 if shrink-wrapped, $10 if rolled in a tube with free shipping.
Upon request, other images may be made into posters. Costs will be determined by size and quality desired. Please contact Jan below with request.
Chrysalis Cards
Share these enchanting Southwest images with others or enjoy them framed on your own wall.
Jan Wright's watercolors are perfect greeting cards for all seasons and occasions.
Most are blank, no text greeting cards. Canyon Yule has a Solstice greeting.
Tools for Change
As with Butterfly's many stages of metamorphosis, we as humans cycle through much change. Our ability to remain adaptable and open to our own transformation is vital to our evolution. Jan, through her own metamorphosis and spiritual awakening, developed along her way many tools for her own transformation and now shares them with all interested.
From her studies with a Hopi trained shaman, Jan began creating SHIELDS for honoring the directions, animal guides, ancient spirit guides, and for protection.
Mary, owner of Peace Tree Trading of Brooksville, FL, comments, "My customers love finding special representations of their totem animals. Jan creates masterful shields of a wide variety of animals and archetypes. I am pleased to offer Jan's healing tools in my store."
Because of her connection with Native cultures, Jan has always been fascinated with BEADWORK and began creating fans and rattles with intricate peyote stitch patterns. Jan also beads candle bands, bookmarks, and beadwork for bags on a loom.
Ceremonial fans are used for smudging, cleansing a space or aura, often with burning sage, cedar, or sweet grass.
Jan's 'HANDS OF THE ANCIENTS' MEDICINE CARDS, which are currently out of print, consist of 22 images of ancient rock art, bringing the past energies into the present. They are often used by spreading the deck and energetically selecting a card for the day or by requesting aid in solving a problem. Jan is in the process of expanding the deck to include 44 paintings of international rock art, not yet published.
'ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS ~ A Spirit Quest Journey' is a book of Jan Wright's short stories of extraordinary experiences and lessons with animals she has met on her spiritual path. Each recounts her contact with the animal and relates information regarding that animal that helped her to grasp the lesson it brought to her. Each story is illustrated by a painting, dream catcher, shield, or beaded fan by Jan.
'NATIVE WISDOM CARDS ~ A Child's Connection to Nature through Native Stories' is another project in process that is in collaboration with writer/teacher Nancy Maryboy that will be a deck of colorful, child like collages and stories collected from tribes across North America. What a fun way to learn the lessons from Native wisdom. Not yet in print.