About
Barking Red Wolf, also known as Waya Celestial, is a 13 year third generation Stained Glass Artist and a 3 year Beadwork Artist from Washington State, specifically in the Olympia area.
He has been making artwork since he could use his hands, starting with the obvious finger paints and crayons and working his way up to watercolors and colored pencils.
Waya got into Stained Glass at the age of 13; learning from his Father, who learned from his Father, who learned while he served in the Military.
He took to the medium quickly, and was able to do very complex cuts and grinds, and was a natural at making designs.
After taking welding in High School at W.F. West, he applied what he learned to his soldering, and has only seen improvements since.
Waya became fascinated by beadwork when his Grandfather showed him earrings made by his G. G. Grandmother when he was around 12-13. He wouldn't pursue the medium, however, until 2023; 3 years ago, and 2 years into his Reconnection journey with his Fathers side of the family.
Once he started doing it though, he spent days, weeks, even months, beading non-stop. Every day. He was determined to improve and learn as much about the medium as possible.
He has learned and improved a lot over those 3 years, and he only hopes to continue to learn and improve from here.
Barking Red Wolf's work centers around Nature, Human Nature in Animals, and Heritage.
Bead and Glass Work brings out a lot of emotion from viewers, and Waya not only captures that emotion, but captures the anatomy and spirit of the subject(s) of a piece;
Everything living in Nature has a soul, and should be respected.
Waya deeply values in person transactions and interactions, and hopes to vend at more events in the future! He specifically hopes to vend at Leavenworth's Art in the Park and Ren Faires around Washington!
He is also working on getting a studio set up so he can be a part of ARTrails in Centralia; every year they host a studio tour.