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Barbara McCulloch
Acrylic Paintings
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Acrylic Paintings
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“THIS ENCHANTED JOURNEY” 2025
Artist Statement: The overarching meaning in all my work refers to a feeling that life is intrinsically connected and beyond human comprehension. That inspiration drives me, especially here in the high desert. I have always loved the New Mexico license plates that declare it to be ‘the land of enchantment’. Enchantment permeates this land of timeless visions and vistas.
My current series, “This Enchanted Journey” evolved from a fascination with those mysterious energies driving the imagination - where they come from? - how do they connect us? - where do they lay dormant waiting to be recognized?- how do they give rise to emotion and stimulate new ideas?
Inspired by the high desert of New Mexico, this work offers an enchanted vision of flora and fauna coming alive through texture, lyrical line and color. This series presents more questions than answers.
Where do our dreams go when birdsong sends them to the winds? Are they carried by wild horses across the New Mexico landscape? When I paint, I hope to create a doorway for the imagination.
My current series, “This Enchanted Journey” evolved from a fascination with those mysterious energies driving the imagination - where they come from? - how do they connect us? - where do they lay dormant waiting to be recognized?- how do they give rise to emotion and stimulate new ideas?
Inspired by the high desert of New Mexico, this work offers an enchanted vision of flora and fauna coming alive through texture, lyrical line and color. This series presents more questions than answers.
Where do our dreams go when birdsong sends them to the winds? Are they carried by wild horses across the New Mexico landscape? When I paint, I hope to create a doorway for the imagination.
Rearrangement of Possibilities,1
Desert Lullaby
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Rearrangement of Possibilities, 2
Sunset Flows over Me Like Water
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Deep in the Heart of It
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Just One More Time
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Darlene Olivia McElroy
Narrative Mixed Media Artist
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Narrative Mixed Media Artist
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Darlene Olivia McElroy comes from an old New Mexico family of artists, musicians and inventors. She is a mad scientist of art techniques and is continually exploring new surfaces, materials and techniques.
Throughout her career McElroy has combined head and heart in her journey of creating evocative mixed-media paintings. Trained as a painter and illustrator, she has an obsession for materials, passion for dreamlike imagery, and love of new technologies, which she uses to immerse herself in richly textured surfaces, mixtures of old and new, and brilliant and subdued tones. And always, there is a face or symbol of humanity that serves as a guide into mysterious layers which challenge reason and draw upon emotions.
Throughout her career McElroy has combined head and heart in her journey of creating evocative mixed-media paintings. Trained as a painter and illustrator, she has an obsession for materials, passion for dreamlike imagery, and love of new technologies, which she uses to immerse herself in richly textured surfaces, mixtures of old and new, and brilliant and subdued tones. And always, there is a face or symbol of humanity that serves as a guide into mysterious layers which challenge reason and draw upon emotions.
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Progression in Retrograde 56" X 68"
Crimson Travels 24" X 12"
Artist Statement: I fell in love with the landscape, light and culture of Santa Fe and moved here in 2014. My life’s path had meandered across the country, from the Midwest to both coasts and back again for college and graduate study in science. I eventually settled in the Northeast, where I spent more than three decades immersed in biotech, focused on scientific rigor, abstract theories, and data-driven discovery.
But even while working in that world, I was always creating, using my hands, my intuition, my sense of form. Over the years, I experimented with countless materials: fabric, fiber, paper, clay, paint, and glass, searching for balance between form and feeling, shape and silence, chaos and harmony.
The same curiosity and structure that drew me to science also drives my artmaking. I approach each piece as I would a research question, with a guiding idea, curiosity and a willingness to explore. The process is layered and nonlinear: apply, subtract, build, erase, reimagine. What begins as chaos gradually becomes coherence.
Ultimately, I find that the act of creating is less about inventing something new and more about discovering something essential, something that has been present all along, simply waiting to be seen.
But even while working in that world, I was always creating, using my hands, my intuition, my sense of form. Over the years, I experimented with countless materials: fabric, fiber, paper, clay, paint, and glass, searching for balance between form and feeling, shape and silence, chaos and harmony.
The same curiosity and structure that drew me to science also drives my artmaking. I approach each piece as I would a research question, with a guiding idea, curiosity and a willingness to explore. The process is layered and nonlinear: apply, subtract, build, erase, reimagine. What begins as chaos gradually becomes coherence.
Ultimately, I find that the act of creating is less about inventing something new and more about discovering something essential, something that has been present all along, simply waiting to be seen.
Garden Path 36" X 30"
I was born in Baton Rouge, LA.
I grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana
and graduated from LSU-Shreveport.
I am now living my dream in Santa Fe, New Mexico
A place I have been in love with for over 30 years.
I grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana
and graduated from LSU-Shreveport.
I am now living my dream in Santa Fe, New Mexico
A place I have been in love with for over 30 years.
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"I create because I am compelled to create."
"My work often expresses emotion, because it is emotion that attracts me to any piece of art. My pieces have a patina as if they have been touched by many hands and if they could talk they would surely have a story to tell…"
"For a number of years now my focus has been on sculptural pieces. It was not until around 2009 that I started feeling like and knowing in my soul that I was an artist. It was while working on these sculptural pieces that I broke free. I work with polymer clay, paper clay, paper mache and whatever else I might pick up. My pieces are very organic both in appearance and the process that brings them to life. I usually start with very vague ideas, like a face and let the clay become what it wants to become. As with my metal work, these sculptural pieces have a patina as if they have been touched by many hands and originated in another place unknown to us."
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Cheri O’Brien,
American Contemporary
Narrative' Artist
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American Contemporary
Narrative' Artist
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Cheri's seemingly casual aesthetic shifts emphasis from outrageous and funky to tender and charming. Re-creating child like images with recurring motifs such as dogs, stuffed animals, flowers and religious iconography she attempts to understand her world with finding humor in beauty and the beauty of humor.
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Taylor Oliver
Photo/Painting Imaginarium
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Photopaintings are abstract photographs, compositions
unmanipulated, some or all image elements recolored digitally.
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Photo/Painting Imaginarium
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Photopaintings are abstract photographs, compositions
unmanipulated, some or all image elements recolored digitally.
Please click on images to enlarge
MINIMALIST, NOIR, CONSTRUCTIVISM
EARLY SPRING
"My art is based on photos taken of interesting compositions found in ordinary, daily reality, unmanipulated except for color, although occasionally I experiment with applying bi-lateral symmetry to an image. It's very exciting, being able to create abstract images based directly on everyday reality. All this inspired by 25 years of enjoying an astonishing variety of abstract art in the museums and galleries while living in New York City. I refer to the process as Photo/Painting Alchemy, and the resulting body of work as Imaginarium. Preferring not to repeat myself, each piece should be a new visual adventure."
INTERSTELLER CRUISE LINER PICTURE WINDOW
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ASIAN INFLUENCE VERSION 5
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DOWNPOUR
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SYCHRONIZED PARTICLE THEORY #6 (KW)
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Nancy Paap is represented in several galleries nation wide—Handwoven Originals in Santa Fe, NM; Artemisia
in Taos, NM; Websters Gallery in Ashland, Oregon and Earth Spirits in Palm Desert, CA. |
There is nothing ordinary about the creations of weaver Nancy Paap, who spins dog hair into yarn and weaves it with hand-dyed silks, wools or cottons for one-of-a-kind garments.
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New Mexico Artist Directory The Mountain West Fiber Arts Directory NMFAD QUELLE ZINE Article |
Having lived and worked in the southwest for most of her adult life (her final location 54 years in Santa Fe), Rena’s paintings and crafts are the culmination of a life enriched by the culture, beauty and values of people who for hundreds of years created the visual magic of New Mexico, her tribes and families.
Now, proudly offering beautiful signed Giclee Prints, you are encouraged to email Rena to receive images and details of prints currently available from her studio.
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Now, proudly offering beautiful signed Giclee Prints, you are encouraged to email Rena to receive images and details of prints currently available from her studio.
[email protected]
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After experimenting with oil and acrylic, I found my true affinity is with transparent watercolor. I love its spontaneity, its freedom of flow, the surprises, and the challenge to master or at least control the independence of its gentle yet willful nature. I do still lifes now and then, but I am particularly attracted to landscapes. Color and light are the elements that most strike my sensuous core. Watercolor seems to best capture for me the vibrancy and translucence of sky, earth, water and all that grows and travels therein. I may know where I want to go, but how to get there is always an adventure.
Bryce Touched by Snow 13.5" x 18.5" Gouache
Moenkopi Plateau
12" x 20"
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Texas Canyon, AZ (gouache)
14" x 20"
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Pecos River Rocks and Trees
20" x14" Gouache
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Autumn in New Hampshire 12" x 16"
Sunset and Succuents
14" x 24"
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As an artist, what interests me most is portraying relationships through the essence of the moment.... I work predominately on a grand scale in a vibrant, colorful manner with loose sweeping brushwork in acrylic on canvas.
Ron studied art at the Central Academy of Art in Cincinnati,
Ohio under the distinguished painter of Western Art, Jackson Grey Story.
In addition to being a talented painter, Ron is a sought-after
commercial artist, graphic designer and illustrator.
Ohio under the distinguished painter of Western Art, Jackson Grey Story.
In addition to being a talented painter, Ron is a sought-after
commercial artist, graphic designer and illustrator.
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I paint exotic landscapes - my versions of heaven - shimmering with gold leaf and other reflective materials, to create places that are beautiful and meditative not found on earth. If you're up for a creative experience, please contact me to arrange a custom commission painting for your home or office. I also provide painting classes, books and instructional videos that include my unique systems and methods for teaching contemporary painting techniques.
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Diane G. Rolnick, Artist
Mixed-Media – Painting – Digital Imagery – Monotypes
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Experimental Drawing and Mixed-Media & Digital Media and Drawing Mania
Mixed-Media – Painting – Digital Imagery – Monotypes
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View Diane's Workshops:
Experimental Drawing and Mixed-Media & Digital Media and Drawing Mania
In the very noisy, chaotic, cacophony of our visible/audible world aloud with swirling voices and conflicting diatribes, I have found myself continuing to be fascinated with the more subtle nuances of human expression, gesture, movement, moment, action, interaction, and reaction which offer to me a sense of wonderment.
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