Rachel Houseman MA, LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC

"I believe in the evolution of human consciousness which is occuring simultaneously with the Earth, it is peaceful, spiritual, synchornistic and unstoppable!" 

Introduction

Rachel Houseman received her BA in Liberal Arts with a focus in Art and Healing at Goddard College in Plainfield Vermont culminating in a multi-media art show based on her studies in Art, Ritual & Healing. She went on to get her MA in Counseling Psychology and Expressive Arts Therapies from Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona 2007. (She currently works as a Licensed Professional Counselor using Art Therapy to help others.) She managed Blinking Light Art Gallery in Plainfield, VT 2000-2002 and went on to found "Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery" in Prescott Arizona 2004-2011 & Taos New Mexico 2011, now located in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico since 2014!  Her gallery and studio features colorful, visionary art with themes of the Southwest.  From 2004-2011 her gallery produced over 60 shows monthly of featured artists and original artworks. Rachel is also a published illustrator and author, including her first children’s book “The Song of the Trees” available on Amazon. She is a life-long learner currently studies psychology, anthropology, world cultures and world religions.  She is an avid traveler and has visited many countries around the world. Rachel’s unique style is fresh and has no official name, but has been called Colorist, Fauvist, Formalist, Neo-Impressionist, Neo-Symbolist, Visionary, Psychedelic and Contemporary Minimalist. Rachel likes to help the viewer "feel" the colors and joy around them by heightening the senses. Making the everyday extraordinary is just a small part of her journey as she strives to awaken her viewers to the spirituality of the Earth and its miracles through spontaneous brushwork and playful, intuitive color.

Art Exhibits & Juried Shows

Rachel’s Artwork has been featured all over the nation in individual and group art shows and in the southwest at many esteemed galleries and juried art shows and has been featured on local and national magazine covers and has been featured within notable publications such as The Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, Southwest Art Magazine, The Santafean Magazine, Now Magazine, Pop Rocket, Seven Days, EPIC Magazine, Essential Guide of Santa Fe and We'Moon Calandar 2020. She created Covers for the New Mexico Counseling Association Annual Confrences in 2018, 2019 and 2020, selling the cover art as a donation to that organization. Rachel's artwork is currently on display within the Office of the Mayor located in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Downtown City Hall and at the New Mexico State Office of Behavioral Health. Rachel's art has been recognized by the Governor of New Mexico. She was Awarded three State Public Art Purchases as Permanant Installations from Art in Public Places of New Mexico in 2016! Rachel also was commissioned to complete a large "mural-sized" Painting for Paradigm Malibu back in 2015 and it is currently on permenant display at this Treatment Center for Teens. Rachel also completed and donated a large children's Mural to Agave Health in Santa Fe, NM.  (Now Presbyterian). She also created and donated a Mural in 2011 for the West Yavapai Guidance Clinic Child & Family Meeting room as donation to that Organization which she worked at for over 5 years helping children and families. Prior to this, she helped create a large hallway Mural for the children of Peterbourgh Elementary School, in Peterbourgh New Hampshire. She created this mural as a collabrotive art project in 1997.

A comprehensive display of artwork can currently be viewed on some of the featured websites:

https://rachel-houseman.pixels.com/

www.zhibit.org/rachelhouseman

www.eyeonthemountaingallery.com

www.fineartamerica/rachelhouseman

www.artmajeur.com/eyeonthemountain

www.saachiart.com/eyeonthemountain

https://www.etsy.com/shop/eyeonthemountain

http://artq.net/artistwork.asp?page=0&artist_id=SPBRQ1411912768010814

https://eyeonthemountain.wixsite.com/mysite

https://www.artpal.com/rachelhouseman/



Artist Rachel Houseman at Birthing Rock, Kane Creek Moab Utah  2015



Artist Insticts

"My interest in becoming a professional artist, gallerist & psychology major started very early.. I grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan in a small art community called Saugatuck, Michigan. I basically soaked up the vibes in and around art galleries within my small town which was home to the famous Ox-Bow Art School. I was exposed to art through the many different artists within my town. I also took studio art and graphic design classes during my high school years at Saugatuck High School and Careerline Tech Center. And at 14yrs I went into a hands-on 2yr exploration World Religions. I toured many different places of worship as part of the youth world religion class at Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, MI. At the same time I also studied World Religion and Philosophy Course taught by Dr. Donald Hooekstra. All this was a psycho-spiritual launch pad for artmaking before the age of 18!"

Medias

"I created art in and out of school growing up. I developed my own 'self-taught' skills in life drawing, portraits, magical realism, fashion design, illustrations and creating books. I started with using charcoal, watercolor, pastel and pen and ink and alcohol markers.  Later on in high school and college I would learn about  oil paints, gouache, photography, digital art, pin hole photography, jewelry making, stained glass, mosaic, glassblowing, sand painting, dance, ritual, music, weaving, as well as many other art forms. I love the watery medias- appreciating their workability as well as the spontaneity of the medias that spread unpredictably across the canvas or paper. Gouache has to be my favorite. One thing remains the same thorugh the medias, as my work is diverse, but it is always about color!"



Travel

"World Travel is my passion and continues to greatly influence and inform my work as an artist. Inspiration comes from connecting to people and places arcoss the globe. I have been to China, Italy, Spain, England, Scotland, Guatemala, Belieze, The Carribean, Canada, France, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Greece Switzerland, Austria, The Netherlands, Crete, Belgium, Iceland and Peru, I saw Africa off in an 8 mile distance from Rock of Gibartar and I have also traveled to most of the 50 states!"

Artist Rachel Houseman at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico 2014

Artist Rachel Houseman on the Island of Santorini, Greece 2018

Educational Background

"My many teachers in early stages of my life include Perry Sevitt who was an inspriation to me in my love of graphic art, Pop Art and Andy Warhol. I also learned a great deal in my BA at Goddard College from Janet Massad and Sarah Bowen both art teachers who helped my cultivation of unique, brave and informed art making. Painting I was naturally drawn to, but these two made sure I explored Religions, Alchemy, Eco-Psychology and All of the Studio Arts!"

"There are many outstanding Art Therapy Professors that I had through the MA Program at Prescott College. They were each the inspiration for my persuit of an Expressive Arts Therapies Degree. I worked with Pat Allen, Shaun McNiff, Bruce Moon, Mildred Lachman-Chapin, Dr. Cappi Lang Comba, Debora McCall, Mary Reich, Art & Sandy Robbins, Gabrielle Roth. I met Michael Franklin at Naropa University and took my first workshop on Art Therapy with his instructon."

"Working with these amazing artists and art therapists created within me a real appreciation for the work and for the goal of being present and aware of the sacredness of all life and through the art making process."

Additional Educational Enrichment

"I owe a lot to my art-loving parents.. My parents toured me around some of the best art museums in the world by age 13yrs.  This included: London National Gallery, Murano Glass Museum, Parc Gruell in Barcelona, The Louvre, The Uffizi, Saltzburg Museum, Galleria dell'Accademia, Vincent Van Gogh Museum at The Hague, Jean Miro Museum, Museu Picasso, Stonehenge, The Chicago Art Museum, Metropolitain Museum of Art, The Smithsonian National Museum, The Vigeland Park in Oslo, Norway, Vercsailles and The Fleming Museum just to name just a few. Many more museums came my way as I traveled such as: The Prado Gallery Mardid, The Renia Sophia, The Whiney, The Phippin Museum of Western Art, The Pergamon Museum Berlin, Acropolis Museum, MoMA, The Ghetty, Kycuit Museum, The Venice Art Biennale, The Biltmore Estate Museum, Guggenhiem NYC, SMoCA, The Bread and Puppet Museum, The Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe, The Georgia O'Keffee Museum Santa Fe, The Palace of Fine Arts Santa Fe, The Museum of the Acropolis, The Heard Museum in Phoenix, Venice Bi-Annual Contemporary Art Expo 1997, The Guggenhien Venice, Murano Glass in Venice. Four of my favorite art  museums in the world are the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, FL, The Chicago Art Museum, The Bread and Puppet Museum and The Nicholas Roerich Museum, NYC."



Art Business

"Charlotte Potok is the one responsible for coaxing me into Art Business. A fiesty lady she was; I considered her a "lighthouse keeper" for all who were artists and wandered through the Green Moutains, hills and vallies of Central Vermont. I began my career as a Gallery Owner as the Co-Manager of The "Blinking Light Gallery" in Plainfield, VT for 2 years. This included a fundraiser to keep the gallery open! The gallery went on to serve the community an additional 15yrs."

EDUCATIONAL DEGREES

 + Batchelor's Degree in Liberal Arts (with a Focus in Studio Arts, Ecopsychology, Art & Healing): Goddard College 2000

+ Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology/ Expressive Arts Therapies: Prescott College 2007



PROFESSIONAL LICENSES

+  Licensed Professional Certified Counselor NM (LPCC)

+ Licensed Professional Counselor AZ (LPC)

+ Licensed Professional Art Therapist (LPAT)

+ Registered Art Therapist, Board Certified (ATR-BC)

+ International Expressive Art Thearpy Association (REAT) Canidate

"Oak Creek Canyon Tree"  Sedona, AZ   12x36"  Acrylic   2013

"I seek to heal humanity through the transformative experience of symbols and colors."  

Representation

Eye on the Mountain Gallery

eyeonthemountaingallery.com

Gallery Andrea Scottsdale AZ

artandrea.com

The Range Cafe Bernalillo NM

www.rangecafe.com

Metallo Art Gallery Madrid, NM

http://www.metallogallery.com/

Crave Gift Shop & Sweet Cravings Bakery, Moab UT

https://www.cravemoab.com/

Peacetree Cafe/Gallery Monticello, UT

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Peace-Tree-Juice-Cafe/145273002178820

Burr Trail Outpost Boulder, UT

http://burrtrailoutpost.com/

Hilltop Deli, Jerome AZ

https://www.facebook.com/hilltopdeli/

Athena's Heart, Prescott AZ

http://www.superpages.com/bp/prescott-az/athenas-heart-specialized-beauty-llc-L2651354289.htm

Taos Diner I , Taos, NM

https://www.facebook.com/Taos-Diner-I-and-II-237225842971678/

Solo & Group Exhibitions

The Hive, Spring Street, L.A.

 http://hivegallery.com/2010/

Se7Ven Gallery

Huntington Beach, CA

http://www.gallerysevven.com/

Cornell Winery Solo Exhibit, Mulholland Hwy, CA

Gallery Arriba Solo Exhibit, Abiquiu, NM

Pita Jungle- All Loations

San-Tan Valley Phoenix/Mesa/Anthem/Deer Valley/North Scottsdale/Tempe/Arcadia

Ian Russell Gallery, Prescott AZ

Bill's Pizza, Prescott AZ

The Sacred Bean, Prescott AZ

Sam Hill Gallery, Prescott AZ

The Raven Cafe Prescott, AZ

The Prescott Public Library

Red Boot Gallery, Bernalillo NM

The Freighthouse, Bernalillo

Rio Rancho Public Library

Juried Art Shows/Exhibits

La Jolla Festival of the Arts 2013

http://www.sdfestivalofthearts.org/

Arizona Fine Art Expo 2012

arizonafineartexpo.com

Arizona State University Group Shows 2012-14

https://asunews.asu.edu/20131008-advocacy-arts-mapping

The Beverly Hills Gardens Fine Art Show 2012

http://www.beverlyhills.org/exploring/beverlyhillsartshow/artshowinformation/

Moab Plein Air Festival 2014-17

pleinairmoab.com

Mission Federal Artwalk San Diego 2013

www.missionfederalartwalk.org

Santa Fe Railyard Artisan Market 2013

https://santafefarmersmarket.com/railyard-artisan-market/

The Great Fair Fine Art Show Fountain Hills AZ  2014

fountainhillsguide.com/events/great-fair-fountain-hills-az.aspx

Prescott Arizona's

Thumb Butte Art Festival 2011

http://archive.azcentral.com/travel/features/articles/2009/09/22/20090922roadtrip0924.html

 Red Rock Arts Festival, Moab UT 2017-19

https://www.redrockartsfestival.com/

Gallery Arriba Solo Exhibit 2015 & 19

https://www.abiquiuinn.com/galeria-arriba-workshops-events

The Abiquiu Inn Cafe & Gift Shop, Abiquiu NM 2013-20

https://www.abiquiuinn.com/galeria-arriba-workshops-events



Abuquiu Studio Tour 2015

Abiquiu Inn, NM

https://www.abiquiustudiotour.org/

"Something Different for the City Different."

 www.eyeonthemountaingallery.com



ABOUT

Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery

"The Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery was founded in 2004 in Prescott, Arizona. It was inspired by the visionary art that I saw in and around Santa Fe, Taos and the southwest in general. This gallery vision was driven by an intention to share art with community, a love of uniqueness and diversity in art and from a need for "something different," came "The Eye." As soon as the galleries doors opened in Prescott, Arizona in 2004, more and more self-taught and visionary artists began to arrive. "The Eye" opened up opportunities for over 100 various solo artists, group art shows and fundraisers. These art shows have helped the gallery to become known as a place for art enthusists, collectors, spiritual seekers and intellectuals alike.  It provides a place to gather and discuss, create, improve upon, become aware, and just enjoy a relaxed, innovative sacred space where one can enter into a multicultural, visionary and often healing visual experience."

17yrs

Anniversary

Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery

2004 - 2021!

Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery is devoted to showing "Something Different" with themes of self taught, visionary artists as well as artists who use their art form to express the sacred, inner vision. "Art for the Soul."

"Prayer to the Four Corners"  20x20" Gouache on Paper part of the "Human Potential Series"

 Learn More about the Human Potential Tarot & Book Here!