ARTSPACE

Handcrafted Jewelry, Antlers and Rock Art

Artist & Land Surveyor

firecat jewelry creates stunning wire wrapped jewelry with stones and sterling silver.

Kelle Roberts is a Colorado-based multimedia painter whose work explores emotion and memory through intuitive, process-driven techniques. Centering on emotive mark-making, movement, and tension, Roberts builds dynamic surfaces through layered strokes, gesture, and physical manipulation. Rather than depicting the external world, she translates internal states into material form. Her work exists in tension: between control and release, transparency and opacity, immediacy and permanence. The result is not a representational image, but a vessel shaped by time, pressure, and emotion. Kelle is a third-generation Coloradan. She has a Doctorate in American history and is a published poet. Although she is a dedicated history professor, she identifies as a painter. She believes that engaging with art and artistic practice feeds our souls and builds community.

Michael Heffron is a Colorado-based visual artist who blends fine art photography with digital storytelling to explore themes of identity, reflection, and the ever-evolving human spirit. While not a lifelong local, Michael has quickly become a vibrant part of the Eagle art scene, contributing bold, conversation-sparking works that invite viewers to reconsider how they see the world. His work drifts somewhere between reality and reverie. With installations featured at Eagle ARTSPaCE, the Hythe in Vail, Fusion in Eagle, and Avalon in Beaver Creek, Michael continues to push the boundaries of what art is - and what it can make us feel.

Mike Crabtree started shooting photos back in the late sixties while in the Navy. A neighbor in the Chicago area gave him a Baby Brownie, a little box camera that was indestructible, and that started his love of photography. He’s pretty much self taught along with help from respected photographer friends and artists that gave him honest critiques and pushed him to hone his craft. Mike is currently shooting with Canon digital cameras and is quite proficient in Photoshop to correct and sometimes enhance his work. Lots of backpacking in the Colorado Mountains and travels elsewhere have been an enjoyable way for him to make photography an ongoing adventure.

Robert Burch [b. 1991] is an experimental glass artist unbound by medium or physical location. He creates wherever he is; the mountains of Colorado, New York City, Asheville, etc. As a life-long skateboarder and creative, he is an engaged participant in counter cultural world views and artistic practices. His work is rooted in analog processes however, Robert completed a degree in graphic design [School of Visual Arts, NYC, 2022] at a characteristically unconventional time and has since combined motifs developed across mediums to carve out a style and voice for himself. Robert’s nomadic life is reflected in the myriad media he employs in his work. Primarily a glass artist (he began apprenticing at 16), he adds items such as keys and rocks and other dichotomous materials to glass. He ties rock climbing rope together with rope made of glass, wraps barbed wire around vases, creates human-sized cairns with blown glass stones and found rocks. His use of material is rivaled only by his ability to manipulate it and he is truly unrestricted by a studio. Robert also creates work after considering his environmental impact and thus uses found and recycled materials as well as sourcing 90% of his glass from Jackson County Energy Park located in Dillsboro (about 4 miles from his tiny, off-grid house). Instead, he creates connections and works in studios and in concert with artists around North America and Europe, collaboration and exploration at the core of what he creates. At the beginning of 2024, Robert debuted with nine other contestants on the Netflix glass blowing series, ‘Blown Away’. He is using this opportunity to explore untapped collaborations and creative outlets, to continue the evolution of his creative practice.