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Barbara McCulloch
Acrylic Paintings
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Acrylic Paintings
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Series “This Enchanting Land”, 2024 acrylic
Artist Statement: The overarching meaning in all my series refer to a feeling that life is intrinsically connected and beyond human comprehension. That inspiration drives all my work, 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 Enchanting Land” 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 a vision of flora, fauna and charming adobe structures coming alive through texture, collage and montage. This series presents more questions than answers.
Where do our dreams go when we send them to the winds? Are they carried by wild horses across the New Mexico landscape? Do the energies of those horses contain the location of the lost lines of my love poems? Why does my heart beat in rhythm to the thumping of the jackrabbits as they create timeless drumbeats?
When I paint, I am allowing color and abstract shapes to become a doorway allowing entry into an experience that feels like this land.
My current series, “This Enchanting Land” 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 a vision of flora, fauna and charming adobe structures coming alive through texture, collage and montage. This series presents more questions than answers.
Where do our dreams go when we send them to the winds? Are they carried by wild horses across the New Mexico landscape? Do the energies of those horses contain the location of the lost lines of my love poems? Why does my heart beat in rhythm to the thumping of the jackrabbits as they create timeless drumbeats?
When I paint, I am allowing color and abstract shapes to become a doorway allowing entry into an experience that feels like this land.
Into the Wind
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Run River Run
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I Found You Under Turquoise Skies
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Desert Duet
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Jazz Riff
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Saturday on Canyon Road
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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
48 X 60
Acrylic, pastel and collage on canvas
Artist Statement: I’ve been in love with Santa Fe, NM, since I moved here in 2014. Originally from the midwest, and raised on both coasts, I returned to the plains states to study science in college and graduate school. Following my academic education, I spent more than 30 years happily in the northeast, living in a world of complicated, abstract concepts, experimental design and data analysis. At the same time, I always created with my hands and heart in addition to my head. Over the years, and using all manner of media (fabric, fiber, glass, paper, clay, paint) I’ve explored form and function, color and shape, representation and abstraction.
My training in the scientific method was applied to the study of our external world. I use the same approach to create art in the study of my internal world. I have an idea, or pose a question, and, letting go of the outcome, I begin my process. Add a layer of paint, take some away. Apply medium for texture. Glue on paper or found objects. Layer by layer, adding and removing, obliterating and revealing, solving problems and creating a whole from disparate parts. Making something from nothing.
Finally, I see with my mind and my heart, what already exists and has only been waiting to be discovered.
My training in the scientific method was applied to the study of our external world. I use the same approach to create art in the study of my internal world. I have an idea, or pose a question, and, letting go of the outcome, I begin my process. Add a layer of paint, take some away. Apply medium for texture. Glue on paper or found objects. Layer by layer, adding and removing, obliterating and revealing, solving problems and creating a whole from disparate parts. Making something from nothing.
Finally, I see with my mind and my heart, what already exists and has only been waiting to be discovered.
What Lies Beneath
36 X 30
Acrylic and pastel on wood panel
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Navigating the Metropolis
40 X 30
Acrylic and collage on wood panel
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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. [email protected]
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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