About the Artist
Monique Cagle lives in the hills of Brown
County, Indiana, where she grew up. She finds never-ending
inspiration for her art in her surroundings and her canvases
fill with views of the fields, nearby Yellowwood Lake and old
farm buildings. An animal lover to the core, her portfolio
includes paintings of cats, dogs, even chickens. She accepts
commissions for animal portraits, with a portion of those sales
donated to the Brown County Humane Society.
Mostly self-taught, Monique gives a lot of credit for her artistic
talent to her mother, who encouraged her children to be creative
in a variety of ways and raised them in a television-free household.
Monique’s art focused mainly on drawing, illustration
and decorative painting until 2000, when her mother died. Painting
then became both a therapy for grief and a celebration of the
talent that was a gift from her mother.
Monique paints mostly with acrylics, though she dabbles a bit
with water-mixable oils. She continues to draw, sketch and
do decorative art. Her house has become her canvas too—floors, doors,
walls, stairs and countertops have all been touched by her
brush.
She has admiration for and finds inspiration in a wide range
of artists, from Claude Monet to Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth
to Marc Chagal, not to mention a parade of children’s books
illustrators. A few of these include Maurice Sendak, Tove Jansson,
Walter Crane and Edmund Dulac. Monique’s paintings result from
a lifetime of exposure to a variety of art and literature,
fusing color and light and occasionally a twist of whimsy.
Monique maintains memberships in the Art Alliance of Brown
County, the Brown County Art Gallery Artists Association,
Indiana Heritage Arts, The Indiana Plein Air Painters
Association and the Hoosier Salon. She is a patron member of
the Brown County Art Guild and an associate member of the Brown
County Art Gallery.
She has won various local
awards, including the 2007 Hoosier Salon “Best Work, First-Time Exhibitor, any
Medium,” award, three first prizes in the acrylics division
at the T.C. Steele State Historical Site Paint Out and
a merit award in 2005 from the Indiana Plein Air Painters Association.
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Exhibiting Galleries
Brown County Art Gallery
Sleepy Cat Studio paintings, prints, and notecards
10 a.m.–5 p.m. daily; 12–5 p.m. Sundays
Main St., two blocks east of the Courthouse
Nashville, Indiana
(812) 988-4609
BrownCountyArtGallery.org/
Brown County Craft Gallery
Sleepy Cat Studio paintings and hand-painted glassware
10 a.m.–5 p.m. daily
58 EastMain Street
Nashville, Indiana
(812) 988-7058
BrownCountyCraftGallery.com
Etsy.com
Sleepy Cat Studio jewelry designs, for sale online
Etsy.com
Ferrer Gallery
Sleepy Cat Studio jewelry designs
Historic Village Green Building
61 West Main Street, 2nd floor
Nashville, Indiana
(812) 988-1994
FerrerGallery.com
The Venue Fine Art & Gifts
Sleepy Cat Studio paintings, prints, jewelry designs and hand-paimted glassware
114 South Grant Street
Bloomington, Indiana
(812) 339-4200
TheVenueBloomington.com
Associations/Memberships
Art Alliance Brown County
ArtAllianceBrownCounty.com/
Brown County Art Gallery Association
BrownCountyArtGallery.org
Brown County Art Guild Patron Association
BrownCounty.org/artguild.html
Hoosier Salon
HoosierSalon.org
Indiana Heritage Arts
IndianaHeritageArts.org/
Indiana Plein Air Painters Association (IPAPA)
InPainters.org/