About Monette Satterfield + Art Gallery

I’m not a lighthouse warning you away from danger. I’m a fairy light deep in the forest, beckoning you toward the dangerous joy of wild creation.

Welcome to the edge…
I don’t make art to fit inside anyone’s definition of what art should be. I make it with my hands, from real materials, guided by that wild pulse I feel when a bluebird catches the light or the mountain turns its flank to the setting sun. Raw, imperfect, completely human. Not a flaw—the whole point.

Art doesn’t belong behind velvet ropes or gallery walls. It’s not trapped in the sterile language of critics and institutions. It belongs in the hands and hearts of those who’ve wandered off the prescribed path. The outsider tradition I work in? It’s for those of us who stopped listening to the “shoulds” and followed the glimmer between the trees.

Here’s what happens: people tell me that being around my creative practice sparks something. A remembering. A permission they didn’t know they needed. The courage to trust their own creative spirit and leave the safe, well-lit path.

I don’t teach or coach because creativity can’t be taught—it’s already yours. You don’t need another instructor pointing at the map. You need companionship while you wander. Proof that someone else is out here in the dark forest too, making wild things by the light of their own fire.

I make art because I feel The Creation moving through me—that dangerous, generous force that makes everything sacred and fleeting. I don’t make it to heal anyone or soothe anything or prove I’m acceptable. I make it because refusing to follow that energy would be a kind of death.

So if you’re looking for the proven path, tidy answers, or art that stays safely inside the lines—you won’t find that here. But if you’ve already left the path, or you’re standing at the edge ready to step into the forest, and you need to see a light glowing somewhere in the trees to know you’re not alone—

Walk with me. I’m holding the light steady.

Series Gallery

Spider Moon Series

Water Spirits Mixed Media Series

Dark of the Moon Mixed Media Series

Vibrant Floral Mixed Media Series

Bounty – A Mixed Media Still Life Series

My Creative Process

I’m driven by curiosity and the solitary joy of making things, by hand. My work is enlivened by the spirits of The Creation and my efforts to meet them. The work itself grows into layered, thoughtful pieces that invite connection.

I work intuitively, mixing media and following where the materials lead. It’s not perfection – it’s the messiness and electric joy of creation.

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