Welcome to All Matters Web Gallery. 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.

This website is the creation of my partner, Rainer Hildenbrand. All of the photographs, (with the exception of Frank Gwirtz's Graphic Arts section photos), were taken by Rainer. He is responsible for the electronic image processing, formatting, editing and the myriad of details that make up this web site. It has been his personal mission to present you with a site that is easy and fun to navigate.

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

Cynthia Gale

We have made every effort to present the same offerings we have at our physical gallery in Burton, Ohio, here on this website. Whether you go to our gift shop where all items are under $50.00, or go to the Gallery, for a museum-quality rattle or order sage for smudging from our Ceremonial Supplies, we hope you will discover that our website is easy and enjoyable to navigate.

Below is a brief overview of the contents of our six categories:

Ceremonial Supplies
Our favorite selection of herbal blends, smudges and ceremonial cleansers that we use in our daily work and lives.

Gallery
The Gallery - For Art that Rejuvenates your Spirit - features an extensive exhibit of Gale's Ceremonial Art. In addition, we include earth inspired creations by a dozen other guest artists whose works include jewelry, drawings, masks, collages, sculptures, quilts and even hand-painted snakes made from tree roots.

Gift Shop
The Gift Shop - For Gifts that Gladden the Heart - with an array of items all priced under $50.00. All handmade, from Gale's dream catchers, mini - prayer bowls (of gourd) and small deerskin leather medicine pouches to seed bead earrings and crystal jewelry by Suzie Knotek and wire-wrapped stone pendants by Dolly Stevenson.

Gift Certificates
All Matters gift certificates may be purchased and mailed or e-mailed in your name.

Graphic Arts
Two - dimensional gallery of quality reproductions with an emphasis on animal spirits and earth inspired subject matter, including Gale's Earth Prayers Poster, the photographs of Frank Gwirtz and cards and prints by several of our guest artists.

Spiritual Consultations
Readings/spiritual consultations with Cynthia Gale.