It is February! Love of Art Month in Las Cruces! Open Studio Tour, from 10 - 4 two weekends: February 13 and 14 and February 20 and 21. We are #K on the map. My paintings and studio; John's books and storytelling. You may tour my studio and see what I am up to, as well as see some of my recent finished work. John's book, Girl from New Hope has been made into an audio book. Listening to it this afternoon was like watching a wonderful movie with the light in the projector burned out. His writing is THAT good.
New Mexico Art in the little shopping center on Wyatt Drive between El Paseo and South Main Street is up and running and has some of my beautiful paintings. They will be on the Studio Tour both weekends: #M on the map.
Now for the general stuff:
Color and the way light plays with it makes me stop and look. I paint what I see; I paint what I feel; I let the painting speak for itself. The amazing versatility of watercolor with all its challenges intrigues me. I try to depict the beautiful moments that occur all around us.
I learned to love the subtle colors and shapes of the ever changing earth growing up on the coast of Massachusetts. Living in Colorado, I became a mountain guide pointing out beautiful flowers and rugged cliffs of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. I enjoyed the moments of beauty that were everywhere. Now in Las Cruces, I have become entranced with the amazing light of New Mexico's deserts and mountains, where tree branches turn orange just before sunset and the clouds glow red over the desert.
Not limiting myself to landscapes just in New Mexico, I paint special moments wherever I travel. Still life, flowers, people, animals? Yes.
My work is a collection of vistas and niches of beauty as I explore my way through life. There is much beauty if we will stop to look. It is those moments I like to share.
I am working to further my ability to enhance the wonderful luminosity of watercolor by working in this medium in a traditional way.
Enjoy,
For some good reading, here again is the way to my award winning husband John's website: click here.
