Arcane-Artistic About Us

About Me & My Artwork

I'm here to share my interpretations of the unseen with the others who see it or who can just appreciate it; to share them as far and wide as possible, and to always do so with the intentions of bringing others joy first through my artwork.

OUR GUARANTEES:

1) Our prints will be printed on the finest ink available to us. We don't use any without at least a 100 year guarantee. You will receive your print numbered and signed by Natalie.

2)Your jewelry purchases with us will be excellently constructed, designed and made by me. Each adornment is a one-of-a-kind wearable sculpture. All jewelry orders come with a Certificate of Authenticity signed by me. See our return policy for more information.

3) We promise that your order will ship within 48 hours of when it is received.

4) You will receive quality personal service when you shop Arcane at any of our web outlets.

A copy of these guarantees and our Returns Policy can be found in our Gallery section, too! :-)

Arcane Artistic Services, LLC

Logo drawn by Natalie Banathy,

Two main components conceived AAS, LLC. The first thing was my art itself, and the second thing was my desire to pursue professional and commercial ventures with it. (My husband and I have day jobs that we hate, and we would like to not go to them forever.) So decided to go into business together while on our honeymoon in California, April '07. We got back home and incorporated with hopes that we will one day be able to live day-to-day as our true selves, hard working in nature but working in a field we have passion for, and motivate others to do the same. How simple is that?

THE ARTIST:
Photos, in order by: Gabriel Guerreso, (c) 2006, Natalie Banathy (c) 2007, and Laura Marie Jones, (c) 2007

Maybe it sounds trite, but I've been an artist all my life. Since I was two and could wield a crayon or a pencil, I did. Even from then I was always interested in drawing things from medieval times, dragons, princesses and whatever. Through my life I would periodically abandon drawing for a few months here, a year there, never really more than that. I took it up again on a consistent basis about five years ago, and my work evolved to take on subjects of the spirit world, along with flowers, nature, and whatnot. Fairies were then a given. I began to draw them almost every time I sat down to draw.
In my first year of college ,2001, I came across the websites of Nedda Shishegar, Jasmine Beckett-Griffith, and Lisalotte Eriksson (did I spell that correctly?), all very inspiring. To this day I still love all of their pictures, mainly because their styles are so very different from each other, just as my style is different from all of theirs; one of the major reasons why the fairy-world quickly became a favorite matter to take a pen, marker, pencil and brush to--because every artist's interpretation of it is all their own.
I do customized artwork for those who request it, I keep a regular blog, and I am working to open a forum here soon. Additionally, my company and I work with beaded jewelry designer Deborah Tubiak, and together we have the jewelry line BANATUBIA, for those who are interested. My husband Matthew helps me out with just about everything, and he is a regularly a presence here as well. Recently he has taken up some graphic design work and we are creating a line of greeting cards from my artwork together.

OTHER MISCELLANEOUS FACTS:

We live in the middle of nowhere, GA for the time being.

We have a band, ONEIRONAUT. (Formerly The Annunaki)

We have three cats, Winter, Lazslo, and Solomon.

My favorite places in the world so far: San Fransisco, CA and Stockholm, SE.

Favorite non-color: black

Inspirations: Nature, felines, Tori Amos, Sonic Youth, a bunch of other food, cold weather, Italian food, coastlines.

Complete turnoffs: Opportunists who think it is acceptable behavior to take advantage of independent artists; copyright infringers, scavengers.

A NOTE ON COPYRIGHTS:

I have two rules regarding the use of images from my website.

1) Don't use them without my permission. I am not a mean person. If you ask me, I will likely say yes unless their are outlying contractual reasons that I must say no.

2) After you ask permission, and I tell you yes, give me, Natalie Banathy credit for creating the images, because I did.

Do this or else!!! (No, really!!!)

Thanks for understanding,

Natalie Banathy