Water Protector Art Print

I stand with Standing Rock. Their fight is all of our fight. Water is life.

What does all this mean? If you had been following the fight at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation the fall and winter of 2016-2017, then you know about the protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline is to cross under the Missouri River. The Sioux Tribe tried to stop it. They called all the Native Nations together to help protect their homeland and keep the water safe for future generations.

My painting, Water Protector, is a statement of support. I was unable to join them in person to protest the pipeline and felt distressed about it. One morning on my way in to my art studio I had a vision of an Eagle pulling a black snake from the water. The Sioux tribe call the pipeline "the black snake". The vision was very powerful in my mind and I knew I had to paint it.

The image of the eagle pulling the black snake is simple yet powerful. It shows the struggle between our Native Nation ( t...

Darice Machel McGuire lived on the beautiful Island of Maui from 2012 until the Lahaina fire on August 8th, 2023, destroyed her art studio. She and her husband have relocated to Grass Valley, California. They purchased a commercial building to reestablish their art studios. McGuire's Hawaii and California landscape oil and acrylic paintings are gracing the homes and offices of collectors nationally and internationally. McGuire's choice of subject matter comes from her love of nature and all that surrounds her on a daily basis. She paints in large and small formats. Three of the five galleries that represented her work were destroyed by the Lahaina fire. The two remaining galleries are Karen Lei's Gallery in Kahakuloa and Karen Lei's...