Canoe in Spatterdock Woodcut

 Karma Grotelueschen's most recent woodcut features a canoe / kayak on water among spatterdock.  The limited edition print will be available at the gallery.

A few of the prints have been hand colored with oil pastels.

Art is Messy!

On a recent Tuesday, Karma Grotelueschen of Prairie Oak Artisans was sending woodchips flying to carve a woodcut of a canoe among spatterdock leaves and flowers.

 Just a couple doors down on Commerce Street, Bruce Howdle was working on a clay wall mural featuring a child on a tree swing with a rolling Wisconsin valley landscape beyond.  Out back of the Howdle studio, Howdle's student, Henry Graser, was splattering paint onto huge vases that he sculpted recently.  Henry was painting and glazing to finishing up the pots in order to fire them prior to his departure for education at the Art Institute in Chicago.

It was a busy, but typical, day in Mineral Point's art district that encompasses galleries and studios along High Street, Commerce Street, and Fountain Street, and others a little outside the downtown area such as Brewery Pottery on Shake Rag Street and some actually a little out of town, like Windy Ridge Pottery on Route 39.

Custom Sets Available

All of Karma Grotelueschen's sterling silver jewelry styles can be custom made to adjust the size, shape, or the stone to your desires.  Earrings can be made longer, shorter, narrower, wider, bracelets and cuffs can be made to fit your wrist, rings can be sized to your finger.  Many stones are stocked in standard sizes and any of the styles can be made for you in your choice of stone.  Or a set can be made with matching or coordinating stones.


This set is made with carnelian, a translucent red orannge.  Red jasper is an opaque red orange that also coordinates well with carnelian.  Lapis lazuli, a deep bright blue and demin lapis, the same stone in a lighter bright blue, make beautiful sets.  Black onyx is available in many size stones, as well as ivory-colored river stone and tiger eye.  A beautiful green stone, aventurine, and an olive stone with pink flecks are others that are available in standard sizes and easy to keep in stock for custom order.

Bloodroot Woodcut

Working in wood exclusively now, this new woodcut print is of bloodroot, a spring ephemeral native to woodlands across the country.

More Silver Jewelry

 Cuff bracelets are made up thicker sterling silver, shaped and stamped with botanical designs.  Matching dangle earrings with handmade earwires complete a set.







Rings with stones and stamped bands are new, as well as bracelets with many separate links that each have their own stone cabochon.  An extra link attached at the clasp gives more weight so that the clasp stays down when worn.

Hoop Earrings

These new hoop earring are hammered hoops with shaped and stamped leaves or flowers.  The leaves or flowers can be removed and the hoops worn alone for a simple statement, or the dangly ornaments can be attached.

New Jewelry by Karma Grotelueschen

 These sterling silver brooches are entirely hand forged and crafted in Grotelueschen's silversmithing studio in La Valle, WI.  Made of sterling silver sheet that is punched and formed, these brooches have a sturdy pin back that is also hand made. Each brooch is one inch high and between 1 3/4 and 2 1/2 inch wide. Imagine wearing one on your coat lapel, on a wrapped scarf, or on a dapper hat! They can be purchased in the gallery spring thru fall, or at www.Etsy.com/shop/prairieoaksilver year around.

How To Shop With Prairie Oak Artisans

Prairie Oak Artisans is located in beautiful Mineral Point, Wisconsin, a lovely historic town between Galena, IL and Madison, WI on Highway 151.  Mineral Point is home to a number or artists and artist galleries and artist studios, so you will find more like us up and down the streets and in interesting locations just our of town.
Prairie Oak Artisans is at 207 Commerce Street.  It is a small building with only 20 feet of storefront, so we can be easy to miss, but worth looking for.
In season, approximately May through October, we are open on Fridays and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and also at other times when shop owner, Karma Grotelueschen, is there working on art.
There are friendly helpers in town willing to let you in to shop by appointment at other times, so just call Karma's cellphone at 630-728-9998 and she'll round someone up to help you out.
Or we can ship something to you. If you saw it while in the gallery last time you were in town, or you see it here, or you saw something a friend obtained from us, describe it and we can send it.  Email a description to plannedscapes @ aol.com (take out the spaces) and we'll try to  help.
Karma also has an Etsy shop at www.Etsy.com/shop/PrairieOakArt where many of her things are listed.
Or if you don't see them there, if you call or email, she can put them there in a listing for you so that you can use it to order.
Karma also has her sterling silver jewelry at www.Etsy.com/shop/PrairieOakSilver so you can shop for earrings, pendants, rings, cuff bracelets, and other lovelies year around.
Thanks for showing an interest in our artwork and do let us help you find the right lovely thing for your home or for you to wear or as a gift.

Woodcut of our Building

Owner Karma Grotelueschen has carved a woodcut of the building facade, which will be the 2014 postcard.

New Bird Nest Lapel Pins

Karma Grotelueschen has been making copper and copper wire sculpture since before Prairie Oak Artisans was even a gallery.  Copper wire birdnests have been a staple at the gallery since the beginning, with customers using them for table centerpieces, window sill art, and even outdoors as garden art.  They have been given as housewarming gifts, gifts to celebrate a new baby, as part of a wedding gift package, and are a favorite as a birthday gift to a friend.  In recent years, Grotelueschen has expanded the line with silver-color nests made of aluminum wire and black nests made of stove pipe and electric fence wire.
Grotelueschen's latest additions to the line of wire nests are lapel pins.  These are made of copper, brass, or black wire, and feature 'eggs' of fresh water pearls or other beads.  These little lapel pins have a tie tack style post back with a winged backing clasp.  As with the nest sculptures, these little pins make great gifts.

Sterling Silver Leaf Jewelry

Sterling silver with botanically influenced designs are the specialty of silversmith, Karma Grotelueschen.  Leaf shapes of sterling silver are shaped and set with stone cabochons to create wearable are in the form of pendants, earrings, rings, cuff bracelets and other interesting and beautiful jewelry.  Buy it at our gallery or at www.Etsy.com/shop/PrairieOakSilver.

Tiny Felted Landscapes and Florals as Lapel Pins

Karma Grotelueschen demonstrates the process of making her felted landscapes at Fall Art Tour and other times throughout the year. In response to customer demand (literally, a customer who felt she could not yet afford the full size versions said "You need to make little ones as pins so we can take home a sample while we save up for one for our wall."), Grotelueschen has made teeny tiny versions as lapel pins.  These little gems are made just like their larger cousins, with wet felted backgrounds and needle felted details.  Sometimes, to make up for their diminutive size, they are embellished with a few sparkly beads.  They are a little under 2" x 1 1/2" and they have a tie tack style pin back.  Some are mini landscapes, some feature trees, others flowers or bird nests with little eggs in them.  Another great gift item for a friend! Or for yourself!