Dear Friends,

Welcome to All Matters. My name is Cynthia Gale and I founded the gallery in 1991 to exhibit my own ceremonial art that I call, "Earth Prayers" - ritual objects dedicated to the restoration of the planet's, as well as our own, natural healing abilities. My art includes half-dozen kinds of rattles, beaded dreamcatchers, medicine pouches, feathered spirit masks, beaded gourd prayer bowls, and smudge feathers and fans that are works of art as well as working shamanic & ceremonial tools being used around the world by healers, shamanic practitioners and those who live their lives as a prayer for Mother Earth. Together, my partner in life and in work, wood and glass artist, Rainer Hildenbrand and I have nurtured All Matters's evolution. The Gallery's physical location is on Main Street in beautiful downtown Burton, Ohio. All Matters Gallery & Studios are situated in the heart of Northeast Ohio's Amish country - where simplicity and beauty are a way of life.

All Matters has grown to exhibit other intuitive artists from the United States, Canada and Mexico, who work in similar creative and spiritual traditions. It is commonplace for visitors to our All Matters Gallery in Burton to call it a sanctuary and it has been described as a temenos - a sacred precinct. We hope our web gallery carries the same energy for our web visitors.

All of the photographs, (with the exception of Frank Gwirtz's Graphic Arts section photos), were taken by my partner, Rainer Hildenbrand. He is responsible for the electronic image processing, formatting, editing and the myriad of details that make up our web site.

Rainer and I welcome you to this place and feel blessed to bring All Matters offerings to you.

Cynthia Gale