ARIN NOEL CARMAN HOLECEK

Greetings! Mostly art will be shown on this page but I will share a bit of background. I was born and raised in a farming community in the high desert, Northeast corner of California. So far North I was born in Oregon. My grandparents homesteaded following WWII, and my brother and I grew up on the family farm. My parents raised alfalfa, barley, wheat, rye, and sugar beets. My parents were also teachers and writers, my Mom a talented artist. My brother is now a musician! I’ve found something to love about every place we’ve lived, but my birthplace is magical in its raw beauty and pioneering, hardworking spirit; I’ve missed it ever since moving away to college. No, I did not grow up surfing and the temperatures there can reach -30. There is snow on the ground there more months out of the year than in Colorado!

I met my husband here in Colorado at The Colorado School of Mines. We got married right out of college and moved around the country, following our engineering careers and graduate school, for several years. Shane is from Colorado Springs, and when he wanted us to move back here to raise our three kids in his hometown, I was thrilled. Like my original home, Colorado Springs has beauty and magic that are hard to find anywhere else in the world. Having been raised around wide open space and mountains, I feel at home here in a way I didn’t feel any place else. I’m very grateful to be here and have met incredible people through the kids’ schools and throughout the community over the past ten years. I work part time from home as an engineering consultant but am focusing most of my energy outside of raising a family on my lifelong dream of becoming a professional artist. Hence, this art business page.

I’ve made art since I was little, but started painting in earnest in 2016, taking classes at FAC's Bemis School of Art when the kids were in school. In the past couple of years I’ve learned about Zentangle and it inspired me to add ink to existing drawings and paintings of mine (many artists do this, not just me!) I recently signed a one year contract to show some of this art, rotating monthly, at Carnelian Coffee in Old Colorado City. Please reach out if you’d like to see any art in person! Especially if you’d like to purchase either a print or original, and even if you’d just like to talk about art. I’d love to connect!