Ethical Excellence

Ethical art making is something Avianne has progressively implemented in her studio and will continue to make strides on as new and more optimal ways to do so become accessible to artists.

It is Avianne’s goal to always provide her collectors with the most incredible results. It all begins with using great, high quality and ethically sourced supplies. Not all art is created equal, but that does not only pertain to supplies and methods used to create the actual art. It also pertains to where and how supplies are manufactured and mindful practices regarding the environmental impact and sustainability of art making processes and practices.

Quality Control

Art supplies getting into the hands of artists all over the world, rely heavily on testing, development, shipping and also manufacturing. Today’s artists in the Western world do not produce their own pigments, paints, brushes, graphite, canvas and other supplies the way it was done hundreds of years ago. Some companies that produce art supplies are often looking for ways to cut supply development and manufacturing costs. Sometimes that means, unfortunately, that less than stellar practices by developers and manufacturers of these supplies are being followed, resulting in low quality art supplies that will not produce the high caliber art you may think you are paying for.

This is why Avianne uses supplies that she can verify the quality of as much as possible. Art supplies that are produced by companies in the USA, Canada, Australia, and Europe are generally at least held to a far higher standard than most in terms of aspects like quality, lightfast pigments and not including too many harmful carcinogenic ingredients. Health and safety standards are enforced by law. These art supplies are mostly being manufactured by ethical companies, using ethical practices in their development and manufacturing processes.

If you care about quality, health and safety, you can always ask the artist about the archival quality of their work, where their supplies are being created and if they use any toxic ingredients in their art making.

Mindful and Sustainable Art Practices

Many art buyers do not realize how the environment (as well as many people and animals) are being exploited in developing and manufacturing the supplies that are often being used in creating the art they buy.

Avianne is on a mission to, as far possible, rid her studio of art products, supplies and equipment that are developed, produced or manufactured in countries or factories where sustainability, human rights violations, animal rights violations and environmental impact cannot be known. Starving art students or emerging artists, even famous artists do not always ask themselves the question: Is my choice of supplies and artistic processes really optimal for the planet and for respecting the dignity and well being of humans and animals?

Avianne has started to question this in her studio. Where do these ingredients come from? Who processes these ingredients? Are companies responsible for how they source these ingredients? Is some poor kid in a third world country paying a tremendous price just so that I can paint with a certain color or buy a cheaper canvas? Is a tree dying somewhere in a forest, never to be replaced, displacing animals, just because I prefer a certain type of drawing paper? If I pour this chemical down the drain, am I contaminating water sources?

“Artists are often so involved in their own process that they do not consider the bigger picture. Most artists I know very much profess to care about the environment. They typically recycle, even protest in favor of resolving issues like animal cruelty or environmental dilemmas. I hope to set an example to others that just getting the most readily available, cheapest supplies cannot be the way we ignore our responsibility to care about others and the environment. People are being exploited in foreign factories. Animals lose their homes. This is not OK.” – Avianne

When you support an artist who practices mindfulness in this regard, who purchases art supplies that are manufactured in the USA or Europe, rather than from an unknown, unregulated source, you are exponentially supporting quality art supplies being developed and produced in ethical ways. In the USA and Europe there are strict laws and standards being enforced in the production of art supplies, laws and standards that are often not even considered in third world countries. A responsible artist or art buyer will put their ethics into practice. These include (but are not limited to):

Sourcing ingredients, supplies or raw materials in a fair trade fashion, sustainably
Producing art, using art supplies without the excessive use or dumping of harmful chemicals
Adhering to Human, Environmental and Animal Rights considerations in supply choices
Consideration for not exploiting or abusing foreign artists to enrich themselves in any way
Not to purchase art from exploitative, unknown or non-regulated sources

Proudly Made in the USA

Avianne creates all her art from her home studio in the United States of America. She is an immigrant who strives to provide her collectors with the utmost of professional standards. Avianne views impeccable quality as an all-encompassing virtue for artists. She uses the best possible supplies, equipment, and processes to create her art. From top nop notch colorfast pigments to techniques that prevent cracking, yellowing, or fading of art, all Avianne's collectors can rest assured that when they purchase art from her, their Legacy is in tact as their art, if properly cared for, will last several lifetimes.

Conservation – A Personal Passion

“I want to see the practice of trapping animals, especially predators, even keystone predators, in barbaric traps, trafficking and killing them on account of human ignorance, abolished in my lifetime.” – Avianne

Avianne has a particular affinity for nature as she derives much of her inspiration for creating art from it. She cares deeply for the environment and animals. Her garden in Idaho has been officially declared a wildlife conservation garden in 2020, by the National Wildlife Federation, because of her personal efforts to conserve local bird, bee and butterfly populations within her private property in Idaho.

It is a deep passion of Avianne to personally advocate for local wildlife and beyond. She also links her art practice directly to conservation. 10% of all her profits, derived from conducting business of any kind, stretching from instruction to art events to art making, are donated directly to the rehabilitation, conservation and care of endangered and at risk animals as well as supporting efforts to raise awareness, change policies and hearts regarding the conservation of these animals and issues relating to saving them from deadly and often deadly encounters with humans who may be ignorant about them.

Avianne has a soft spot for specifically predators, birds, mustangs and our oceans, but she wishes to extend her efforts to as many at risk wild animals as possible. Her donations extend to a variety of organizations, including those that protect our oceans, and the multiple creatures we share our planet with. To read more about her conservation efforts, you can read more about this by visiting Avianne International and exploring or even getting involved in her environmental initiative at Earth Sirens.

Organizations she has supported over the years and will support moving forward include, but is not limited to: