Jeannie Sutherland · Wildlife Artist, Laser Engravings & the Cooperative Gallery

0:00Okay, I’m good. Sutherland and when I was 4 years old I I did a drawing of a turtle with a top hat. And I got so much attention for it and I was like, “Oh.” And then I did a a monkey with a bolo hat and then I just kept going and so all my life I was doing my artwork. But then when I was in high school I was thinking of being a wildlife conservationist or I was trying to decide between that and art and I stuck with the art. But guess what? You got all the landscapes here, I see that. And I got wildlife.

0:40So I’m still including the wildlife conservation So now I’m retired and I do my artwork and I’m part of a cooperative gallery which I absolutely love. And so what’s it been like, yeah, being a part of this kind of artistic community? That’s why I I I didn’t I I I just I just been documenting stuff but this is super cool. I’m very happy to be here. Yeah, I absolutely love it. I I did belong to an eco-village once and it it’s it was also a co-op, a cooperative community. I I just thought about the other day I have belonged to so many communities and it’s just my thing. I just love it so

1:21much. Um yeah. I’m not really a business person per se but I mean I do sell my work. But I’m more about Well, these are like my babies, you know? I’m like the Humane Society trying to find homes for my babies. Mhm. So um yeah. Has your Has your spring sale been lucrative? Have any of your things been finding homes? I’ve been I’ve been finding a few homes but to be honest with you, March and April are the Well, January is the slowest month in the year for sales and then February and then it slowly gets better but people are doing their taxes right now and then

2:05sometimes when they get their tax return they get really inspired. I get that. I get that. Yeah, but in the meantime it’s just starting to take off like I sold two today. Oh, congratulations. Thank you and then I sold one like a few days ago. Um, yeah. And do you sell like digital prints? Digital prints? Like if people like buy it and then print it out themselves or like could you mail it to them? If digital prints is wrong, sorry. Do you sell like prints people can have mailed to them? Oh, like Etsy and all those. I have prints. Mhm. But like I said, I’m not a

2:39business person and so I don’t want to send them out. But I have like these these are prints up here. Oh, okay. Even though they’re framed. You know, I didn’t realize these were yours too. I was trying to get them in the frame. It’s good that you told me. Yeah. I like these mugs. These are cool. Well, you know, sometimes

2:59Here’s your contact info. Sometimes people love my work but they don’t want to put something on the wall. Mhm. And um This is cool. This too. So yeah, so I put them on mugs as well. Yeah.

3:12So that they have an opportunity to still have the artwork. It’s like some people make cards. You make laser art engravings? Oh, yeah. I had some light box dioramas but I sold all of them. I wow, that’s cool. Yeah, I just sold my last one a few days ago. Oh, congrats. Yeah. That’s fantastic. Thank you. And then I these I call them wildlife wood scraps because I would have like pieces of wood left over and so I was like, oh, okay, I’m going to just So like, okay, here is the original I flipped it but that’s the painting Mhm. in a print form and then I took

3:48that and then I I put it I did some photo shopping so that I put it on top of a jam and everything and that’s when I and I laser engraved it. That’s cool.

4:00And then I did this in the back so people can hang it on their wall. My great aunt might like that. My great aunt she takes like full branches and she like does like walking sticks and like she’ll put whole like portraits and stuff on them and stuff like that.

4:11She does like whole collages out of wood. And I belong to another corporate Well, it’s not a corporate it’s a community. It’s called Hatch Space. Oh yeah, yeah, I saw that down here. Yeah. And so I get I that’s where I made all That’s how I get out of editing. I just make sure I put it right in the frame when I talk about it. That’s not how I get out of it but that’s my approach. Somebody whoever edits is going to be mad. You know, you got to shot for someone to edit. But so So I did this squirrel painting and these guys This?

4:46Yeah, this that’s squirrel I’m sorry skunk I’m sorry. It’s okay. I was like damn. So then I’m I’m not confused. Um I have a skunk behind my house and um You said you have a lot by your house? Yeah, behind my house I have different animals. Um I have seen a bear near my house but they’re not frequent and that’s a good thing because people freak out when they see bears. Yeah, absolutely. Do you freak out when you see bears? No. Oh, you said people I’m like You know, you’re not us? No, when I saw when I saw a bear the first time in my

5:18life I went out and I stood there and looked at it and my landlord came and he started yelling to scare the bear. Oh, yeah.

5:28And I just stood there and looked at the bear was going into the trash can and then the bear ran off and and and my landlord ran off and then I was still standing there and then like 5 minutes later the bear popped its head up. And then and it came through and I wasn’t scared. Mhm. Well, these guys they don’t hurt people. Yeah, they just living life. Well, grizzly bears are different. The grizzly bear they they you know they go and they do more people and animals but these are black bears and they do things like eat berries, things like that.

6:11Okay. And garbage of course. That’s a good lesson then. Black bears are our friends. Well, I actually prefer this black bear. I’m not really happy with that one.

6:23This is our preferred black bear. And his eyes will follow you. Oh yeah, I can see that. Side to side. Mhm. And his eyes follow. And these are so pretty. So, there you go and you can edit it to whatever you want.

6:37show you my artwork if you want. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you want to take us? But I don’t want to take a picture. Oh, you don’t want to be in the video either?