About Me
(Biographical information on Justyn Sweany Wolf and the development and history of Art Rains)

It wasn't until my children were adults, in the early 2000's, that I recognized the latent fine art talent within me that had  waited so patiently to be discovered.

It started with clay sculpting. 

Then, "Oh, my! I can oil paint!"

["Fox Puppies"- by
Justyn Sweany Wolf.
First sculpture
as an adult.] 

After delighting in the discovery that I could paint, my mother introduced me to collaging.

That was a blast!

We'd go to the recycling center and dig magazines out of the bins. 

Then we would spend hours cutting out pictures and making our fun creations.

 [Detail of my first collage:
"Windows" by Justyn Sweany Wolf]

When I became ill with mercury poisoning in 2002 and then a few years later, thyroid cancer, I was unable to sit at an easel, or table, or spread magazines out over the floor.

So, from my bed on the couch, I started using my computer to make collages from my digital photos (still using simple point and shoot camera without fancy lenses).  

My loving husband took care of the technical hookup arrangements for that project. (Thank you, honey!)

 [Photography collage.
Digital Photographs taken
by Justyn Sweany Wolf.]

When I was strong enough to venture out in the wheel chair, my husband would take me for photo "strolls" along the Barge Canal in Rochester, NY (a branch off of the old Erie Canal.)

I had long recognized my skill at taking awesome photographs even with a very basic, simple “instamatic” camera.

I just had “the eye” for composition, subject, lighting, texture, etc.

(I tell ya, it's in the genes! Everyone in my family is an awesome photographer!)

< ["There's a Bright Golden Haze on the Waters"- Photograph taken along the Barge Canal, Rochester, NY, by Justyn Sweany Wolf using simple point and shoot camera.]

 [Photograph by Justyn Sweany Wolf - Lake Ontario- "People on a Rock".]

 [Justyn Sweany Wolf- Loving my new SLR camera
on the beach at Lake Ontario]

I use a photography manipulating program on the computer to crop and edit my digital images to make them more pleasing and interesting. I can sit for hours tweaking photos to get the best composition and color adjustments, etc.

Photography is just pure joy for me! 
I LOVE it so much.  

["Tulips"- photographed at Highland Park, Rochester, NY, by Justyn Sweany Wolf]

[Collage tribute made by me, 
Justyn Sweany Wolf,
in memory of my father,
Paul J Sweany,  
when he passed away in 2009]

My interest in jewelry making (beading and wire wrapping) was initiated through doing jewelry repair for a dear senior citizen friend. 

One thing led to another and I started acquiring beads and jewelry tools and going to bead shows and shops.

Slowly I started building up a lovely jewelry making and beading inventory of high quality materials.

Art Rains provides beautiful pieces of art to those interested in high quality art not only for browsing enjoyment, but for purchase, for collecting, and for gift giving.

Art Rains' unique quality fine arts are created with joy and passion and with the desire to give you that wonderful "feel good" sensation of having beauty and quality in one's life.

My work can be seen and purchased at this site as well as seen and purchased on my FaceBook "Art Rains" page :
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-Rains/289701807976?ref=ts

[Self Portrait in Striped Light- Photograph by
Justyn Sweany Wolf-
Art Rains]