“I have to paint! Landscapes, still-lifes, portraits, whatever….I must paint. It feeds my soul. It causes me great anguish and enormous joy. It is laying paint on a surface and watching how a work develops. It is jumping in with enthusiasm and tedious fixing and re-fixing. I love every aspect of it, from choosing the supplies to laying out my palette to stretching the canvas…everything, even cleaning my brushes at the end of the day.”

Brad sees the world quite abstractly and recognizes painting as a way to express frustration with our species and its treatment of the planet and its life while at the same time trying to make a thing of beauty. He was a photographer for 40 years, but photography doesn't serve this purpose for him.

Carole Belliveau is a Santa Fe artist known for her plein air, studio oil paintings, and sensitive interpretations of women and children. Her plein air paintings are notable for their open palette knife paint application, which expresses the excitement of Southwest color and terrain. Belliveau is represented in Santa Fe, New Mexico, by Underwood Gallery at 225 Canyon Road and in Colorado by Breckenridge Gallery in Breckenridge, CO. She is a Signature Member of Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, American Women Artists, Monterey Bay Plein Air Painters Association, and an artist member of Plein Air Painters of Colorado, American Impressionist Society and Oil Painters of America. Notable Awards are the Cadmium Grand Prize Winner of TRAC 2019, The Gallery Award in the PAPNM National, the FASO BoldBrush Award in Oil, and the BoldBrush Outstanding Acrylic.

From those early formative days driving for Pony Express through the subsequent years of lush and fruitful experimentation, Stan's life and process have somehow brought him full circle. The landscape that inspired him for 40 years has again become his subject.

Inspired by the southwest landscape's light, culture, and natural beauty, Bonnie's main body of work is a series of atmospheric landscapes celebrating the colorful seasons and senses of the Land of Enchantment. By using primarily warm colors – red, rust, orange, ochre, and yellow – she tries to convey the warmth and beauty of New Mexico's high desert. She works in various mediums, and she loves the transparency of watercolors, the vibrancy of acrylics, and the velvety textures of oils.

Rachel's work is content-driven, exploring the visual language of personal and universal iconography. Painting primarily in oil and watercolor, known for working in black and white since 2003, and as a contemporary conceptual artist, her current work is a continuation of meaningful series and themes that address the isolation of our pandemic era. As a lifelong, self-taught artist who returned to university in middle age to complete degrees in studio painting, she went on to teach, curate, and pursue a life in the Arts before moving to Santa Fe in 2015.

Daniel was born in New York City in 1950 and began painting at age fifteen. A few years later, he switched to SLR photography, which taught him the intricacies of color and composition and how to interpret the world through a rectangle. Daniel returned to painting in 2000, urged on by his aged mother, who always supported his creativity. Living in New England then, he realized that his high-color palette was out of place. Still, he began his 2006 honeymoon in New Mexico by being accepted into a Taos gallery the day after he arrived. Since then, he has constantly challenged himself to find new ways to interpret the unique beauty of northern New Mexico.

Michele is an impressionist oil painter who lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her primary focus is the art of conversation, both literal and figurative. She loves to capture the energy & mood of people interacting with each other and their surroundings. Michele uses a colorful palette to create impressionistic paintings, inviting viewers to join the conversation. She works in the studio and plein air, often painting scenes of urban life, cafes, and churches. She enjoys the challenge of painting from life, observing the changing light and color. She paints with a brush and knife but prefers the latter for its versatility and spontaneity. She uses the knife to apply thick layers of paint, creating rich impasto effects that enhance the sense of movement. Her goal as an artist is to share her passion and joy for painting with others. She hopes her paintings convey a sense of life, emotion, and connection. Art is a powerful form of communication that can transcend language and time.

Painting must push you to consider something you have yet to encounter, not just an aesthetic idea but a truth, a connection, a spark that leads to contemplation. That dialogue between the viewer and the painting and its result is what makes painting important. Michael's work aims to create that spark through abstraction -- abstraction created by layers of paint and openings through those layers that show the life of the painting itself, the progression through the stages of its development -- coalescing into an image that, he hopes, very much, sparks a meaningful dialogue with you.

Rob's art is constantly evolving. His abstract images are now often adorned with figures cut from Duralar and suspended between glass above the background, resulting in a 3D effect. These figures range from humorous to mysterious. Unfortunately, you cannot photograph the 3D effect; you must see it in person. He has many available pieces, some of which are traditional landscapes and 30x40 canvases made to hang inside or outside, all at highly reasonable prices. Make the trip out to Aldea (12 minutes from downtown)! It's a beautiful community, and Rob would love to show you his work.

Jerry makes paintings primarily. Talking and writing about panting is almost pointless. Words can express what language can express, but painting is another form of thinking. Painting is limited by the medium, format, expectations, and time we live. It is unlimited in its ability to sustain and create concrete forms of thought that cannot be adequately expressed in any other way—at least that he knows of. So Jerry paints.

Leah Devine is an artist living and working in her hometown of Santa Fe, NM. Leah’s work is an expression of her spiritual nature and explores the inherent playfulness in our world. She is inspired by the rich visions she sees on the journeys through her subconscious. Her work and visions are brought to life through different mediums. She offers one-of-a-kind paintings, prints of her illustrations, and monotypes. Leah also makes ceramic pieces, such as sculptures, hand-painted bowls, plates, platters, and cups.

Paul aims to inspire a practice of listening, fostering shared and embodied artistry within our experience of living and dying well together.

Selena is stimulated by color and texture. Oil paint is sculptural and has a mind of its own. She likes following the medium as it moves her through imagery and into new worlds. Recently, she has been working with pen and ink and watercolor. These paintings deeply dive into her inner energy field of imagination and vision. Like dreams, they are filled with iconography: trees, animals, dresses, dreamers, stars, and the cosmos.

Robbi Firestone's "Serene Landscapes in Savage Color" invites collectors into vibrant emotion, capturing nature's essence through a kaleidoscope of color and light. Synonymous with sophistication and artistic excellence, Firestone blends traditional techniques with contemporary sensibilities, resonating deeply with the discerning eye. Each stroke evokes tranquility, transporting viewers to idyllic vistas. Inspired by Santa Fe's majestic surroundings, Firestone's oeuvre reflects a connection to the natural world, offering a poetic interpretation of moods. Whether capturing the ethereal glow of a desert sunset or the serenity of a mountain lake, her work transcends representation, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the moment. Firestone welcomes collectors to experience her art firsthand, each painting a testament to her passion. Her work rests in homes worldwide, captivating audiences with timeless beauty. Join us in the creative world of Robbi Firestone. 

Jane paints to try to share some of the beauty she finds in everything around her, even the most mundane scenes and/or objects. Her medium of choice is oil paint. Much of her art is created in plein air (outdoors on site) and alla prima (in one sitting) in an effort to capture some of the dramatic scenery around her new home in beautiful Northern New Mexico.

Cindy begins most of my paintings working en plein air, racing the ever-changing light as she strives to capture the essence of place and time. From bright and sunny to dull and overcast, each day has its mood, and it's fun to watch it form on her surface as I coax and mold it layer by layer.

At the tender age of eight, Rosemarie visited The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, with her Aunt Gladys. This was a big deal for a young girl growing up in a small rural agricultural town several states away! It was the first museum she had ever seen. As a result, her life journey toward the painter she is today began.

Albert Handell was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1937. Mr. Handell’s paintings are in private, public, and museum permanent collections. Albert Handell is a consistently award-winning artist for his oils and pastels. He authorizes five tabletop art instruction books and 5 DVDs illustrating his unique oil and pastel painting techniques. Handell has also been a featured artist numerous times in nearly every art publication. His museum exhibition at The Butler Museum of American Art in 2007 honored him with a retrospective of his pastels. Handell shares his knowledge and experience as an artist/instructor through his in-depth Plein Air Painting Workshops. Mr. Handell is a frequent juror/judge for many national exhibitions. Since 1961, he has had over sixty one-person shows. Albert’s studio is in Santa Fe, NM, where he lives and paints and invites visitors any time he is in residence.

L. Thayer began as a formal landscape painter and has progressed into a psychic energy painter. She wants her paintings to energize the viewer, create new conversations, and heal. She is also a psychic medium. She can paint a person's vibrational essence.

Kristine is interested in states of perception and shifts of insight. In painting, that evolves from a lush, complex structure of light, color, and space. Her desire to engage the viewer in contemplation and stillness leads to an emotional transformation. Technically, she mixes color optically through many, many layers of glazes. This creates an internal luminosity and depth of space. Current visual inspiration includes water and super-cluster galaxies. She is also a natural perfumer working with the intersection of art and scent. She has lived in New Mexico for 35 years in Santa Fe and Taos.

Throughout the history of Western art, angels have been captivating and inspirational figures. From the frescoes of the Renaissance, the cathedrals, and the guardians of cemeteries treasured over centuries, such images have served as powerful symbols of spirituality on Earth. These images are mere placeholders, symbols, and reference points for an unseen phenomenon that has been sensed and revered since the beginning of time. Angels in various forms have been recurring themes in her dreams throughout her life. They also appear in waking life, synchronistically manifesting in various circumstances, asking for her attention as a painter. However, her paintings are not merely studies in replicating form; she seeks to communicate the spiritual emotion she feels with these beings, offering a glimpse into her deep, personal vision. Through the medium of oil painting and mixed media pieces, Cheryl seeks to capture the timeless allure of these images in a very personal and contemporary way.

Heidi wakes up daily and looks forward to her time in the studio. Her style and technique are evolving just like she is. Her new pieces convey “joy”. Each piece has a word somewhere on the canvas to remind her to live a joyful life. Part of that joy is portrayed through vibrant, saturated color. Some pieces are highly textured through a palette knife application, while others are glossy and smooth with fine brushwork. She does not restrict herself to one style. At any given moment, she may have a realistic landscape in progress and, on another easel, a bold abstract with intuitive mark-making. She works primarily with acrylics but will also return to oils and gouache. Limitations and rules are for someone else. Creating art feeds my soul and brings me joy each day. She hopes her work brings joy to you, too.

Attuning inward through breath, Joanna allows brushstrokes to emerge from a liminal space. This creates a tension between light and dark, shape and form. Layering represents navigating the seen and unseen, tuning into a felt sense. Her goal in painting is to offer an invitation to discover what is visible and what remains hidden, all the while remaining curious moment by moment.

“The Hearts That Fell Out of the Sky” is a book that Janis wrote and illustrated for children. It features the Heart Heads, who have carrots for bodies and hearts for heads and who live very peacefully on their planet way out in the universe. One day, they hear moaning and groaning from Earth, whose residents are generally unhappy and disgruntled. So, a group of Heart Heads descends to Earth and ultimately teaches us how to live in our hearts. She created a series of brightly colored acrylic and collage paintings entitled “Heart Art” to accompany this book. She is a self-taught artist inspired by whimsy and imagination.

Hank's paintings of cowboys, livestock, and celestial objects are products of the imagination that come from working seemingly meaningless shapes until they look like recognizable figures – like seeing a teddy bear in a formation in clouds. The process begins as a meaningless buildup of tones, shapes, and textures – then a purposeful reduction of those into something of his choosing. That he happens to see lots of cowboys and animals is merely incidental or lazy. Ultimately, Hank wants to create something fascinating to look at. It's a higher bar than it sounds.

To Sara, painting has always been like prayer. Whether she is painting a landscape, a flower, or one of her women of the Bible, Sara feels as though she is a part of the earth, part of something much bigger than herself. It is a prayer of giving thanks, an expression of gratitude for the beauty of nature and all aspects of our life. As she paints outdoors, where she lives in New Mexico, everything seems alive with spirit; the mountains, the trees, and the rivers all have their own spirit and sense of being. Whenever she is in nature or in her studio painting, she feels most connected to her spirit. Sara believes that connection is what drove her to paint. She has to express her gratitude; it has to flow through her somehow. Her work also focuses on manifesting the power of the feminine divine. Her book, guidance cards, and limited editions are about personal empowerment. Through images and stories, the women of the Bible defy the boundaries of time, transmit their blessings and wisdom, and, most importantly, guide you. 

Patricia created a unique technique that rediscovered the use of feathers as a "canvas" for beautiful, memorable fine art scenes. She has applied this technique of assembling multiple large feathers into a single large "canvas" to painting acrylics of Southwestern and Native American scenes as well as birds of New Mexico. Art enthusiasts have collected her work around the world. She has received numerous commissions, including one from PBS Television and a gift to George RR Martin. Her studio was featured on a recent PBS travel show.

Kiki is an artist who is inspired by the majestic, meditative elegance of the horse. Her horses are patient models for her work and much of her inspiration. She enjoys painting large animals and tries to capture the presence and power of the animals by painting monochromatically and on a large scale. Her past studies and work experience greatly influence her graphic style of painting. She has a Graphic Arts and Economics degree from Smith College and studied oil painting at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Upon graduation, she was hired by a Master Printer to assist with the lithography of many renowned artists. After many years of living and working in Manhattan, Kiki was drawn to the beauty and lifestyle of the Southwest. There, she combined her two passions, painting and horses. She strives to create work embodying these beautiful animals' spirit and power.

Barbara's work begins with time immersed in nature, quietly allowing her senses to absorb the experience as fully as possible. These are moments of sublime transcendence, and they also surprise her with a powerful jolt of awareness of beauty and connectedness. She allows these moments in time and place to rest inside her until she feels her hands needing to express her heart with field notes of collected colors and movement of natural lines. The inspiration she receives from life, whether fauna or flora, is the awareness that all life is intrinsically connected. This feeling of awe runs through her and into her paintings, regardless of materials or technique, and is usually expressed as an interpretive abstraction. She works in mixed media, creating abstract narrative elements that allow for interpretive dialog.

Painting and horses have been Sandy's passion from an early age, growing up in Pennsylvania. As an adult, she traveled the West, painting the mountains she loved to ride through. Connecting with the natural environment and bonding with horses is paramount to her painting. 

Art is a perspective for both the artist and the viewer, and when those perspectives merge, it is an enriching experience. 

Saundra's work is shaped by her experience in the natural realm - years spent exploring wild places and abandoned urban landscapes - and by a passion for earth sciences, informing both content and process. Much of the work investigates change and the act of becoming: physical transformation in natural phenomena, whether on a geologic time scale or in a moment's reflection. In her studio practice, she works intuitively, driven by exploration, chance, and the physical characteristics of pigments, water, mediums, paper, and canvas. Saundra's process entails building a history of surfaces, forces, and materials over time, working between her feelings and what she has learned. Her work has been shown nationally and is in private and corporate collections, from Oracle Corporation to the Univ. Wisconsin Chazen Museum to Charles Schwab Corporation.

Kirsty is an oil and pastel painter captivated by the colors and textures of New Mexico. Inspired by the vibrant landscape and rich cultural heritage, she creates art capturing this enchanting region's essence. She aims to evoke the Southwest's beauty and spirit while working in the air and the studio. Her paintings celebrate the harmony and resilience of Santa Fe's landscape and communities through luminous pigments and velvety textures. She also paints portraits of pets. Join Kirsty in discovering Santa Fe and its community's magic through her pastel art.

These are challenging times, but perhaps they were not as tough as our ancestors. Richard is optimistic. His art reflects that optimism tempered by New Mexican light, shared happiness, and a general joy for living.

Philip Nichols began exhibiting his work in NYC over 35 years ago. He is a seasoned artist in painting, drawing, and sculpting, with a career spanning over five decades. He has been loyal to his classical training throughout his career, from his BFA undergraduate degree at Swain School, New Bedford, MA, in 1971 to his MFA from Montclair State. Since then, his work has been exhibited in many galleries across the US. A New England native, he has established his studio in many diverse places, from Vermont to Brooklyn to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he now resides and has been representing himself for the past 20 years at his own Studio Gallery in the historic art district on Canyon Road in Santa Fe. Nichols' work is greatly influenced by the energy and the landscapes of the diverse places he has lived and worked. Much of the subject matter for his figurative work is drawn from a lifetime study of art history and archetypal mythology, mainly focused on the feminine. 

Eva practices figuration and abstraction. The tensions of space, balance, and color are the basic elements of painting that she pursues in both forms, particularly as these relationships provide areas of confinement, safety, conflict, and provocation in both abstraction and figuration. The line is a very powerful component for her in both practices because the intuition of skilled hands can reveal what the mind and heart are up to, often before we know ourselves. She uses these elements to explore the language of painting and emotions.

Shan is inspired by energy, light and color, patterns from biology, geometry, and physics, Nature, the Earth, the Cosmos, and the interconnectedness of all. She believes unseen patterns and structures exist in multiple dimensions across the multiverse that connect and influence everything in the physical and non-physical realms. She aims to capture the essence of those unseen structures, bringing them forth into the visible world in the form of colors, patterns, and images. Shan paints in acrylics mixed with diatomaceous Earth, with heavy textures and expressive brush strokes adding movement and energy, with color harmonies built from many layers of paint.

Veronica Primerano is interested in the visual language of the sublime and ephemerality. Her work is many different kinds of investigations that revolve around materiality and the personality of shapes. She uses watery fields of color, shapes, and handmade paint made out of found materials such as soil and red yeast rice. Creating a language that represents the heavy and soft emotions experienced. All things that make existing both sublime and ephemeral. She believes in creating peaceful, relaxing spaces and hopes her work aids this whenever in its presence.

Nancy is best known for inventing, painting, and teaching specialty acrylic techniques. She has two main styles that use illuminating effects: gold metal leaf combined with acrylic and waterscapes with a special technique for waves and clouds. Using the idea of landscape in a bare sense, she creates romantic versions of heaven – places in her imagination that are beautiful and meditative. These imaginary worlds use nature as her muse for inspiring luminous interpretations of air, water, earth, and light. Merging the literal and metaphorical, her paintings hover somewhere between pure abstraction and realistic landscape.

Memory and loss are mutually exclusive concepts that are the center of her work. Kate produces two primary series, The Book and The Nest. The book series weaves together images and words, visual poems. The nest series takes the shape of the nest and is a powerful metaphor for home and nurture. She weaves together relics: items and things collected by individuals. She gathers ephemera, precious and trivial things. Materials are sourced from garage or estate sales and second-hand stores, posters from urban areas, and items from daily life. Kate likes the unexpected in her work, such as zippers stitched in among her books. Her work reflects oral family history. For the last several years, she has been gluing materials onto paper. When the piece feels complete, she cuts it apart, machine stitches each section, a process like quilting, and then reassembles the sections. This process is similar to women quilting in a group telling their stories. Kate's entire process is meditative and reflects her own story.

Coming from a lifetime career of designing in the Fashion and Interior arenas, retirement has brought Mayr a life of freedom where she can follow her passion for painting and illustrating. She gravitates to a world of fantasy and whimsy, trees being her favorite subject, plus her precious dogs and the memories of childhood fairy tales. This leads to wandering her imagination with a very realistic painting style. She works in a variety of mediums. When Mary started out, she primarily used pastels and colored pencils, but her present favorite is water-based oils on canvas. In her home studio, she relishes the days with no obligations other than to explore the mental pictures that visit her dreams. It is a thrilling and challenging process, after a lifetime of filling orders for clients, to finally be set free to ramble where her mind and spirit take her. She only hopes that you, her viewer, derive the same joy from her work as she does.

The Line in the Form - The Message in the Line. Chinese Calligraphy is as much a philosophy as it is an art. The process of creating work involves mastery of the character and understanding of its meaning, history, and script styles over centuries. Debra's work follows the rules and breaks the rules, much like in life. Her work starts with Chinese written characters in their various historical styles and then moves to abstraction in an energetic interpretation, sometimes incorporating mixed media. There is no effort or intention to create a legible character, but she works to respect Chinese artistic and calligraphic composition while incorporating Western art principles. She blends ancient and new, demonstrating timeless themes. Interpretation should be personal to the viewer.

Jane creates outdoors in response to the landscape and works abstractly and from her imagination. These bodies of work overlap with organic form, movement, and light from the natural world, which remain throughout. Pastel, with its immediacy and vivid color, is primary. The emotional impact of color is central. Additional visual elements –transitions, textures, color relationships, and allusions to representation engage the eye. She trusts the unconscious voice and unexpected imagery. Her insomnia painting series is in mixed media and created at night on top of abandoned watercolors! Her work is exhibited locally and nationally, and her home is what she dreamed of when she moved here from NYC in 1987– Jane sees the horizon from her studio door. She also teaches art classes.

Sandy loves art. She paints every day and loves colors of all kinds. She has a degree from New Mexico State University in Graphic Design and Fine Arts. Sandy loves New Mexico, and she is a second-generation New Mexican. Her travels around NM have inspired her to paint gourds. She specializes in gourds but also paints canvas and uses acrylics! Come to her artist studio!

When Melinda begins to paint, the world's tensions- historical, political, social, religious, and geological - are swirling around like unwanted background noise. After acknowledging those tensions, she proceeds to challenge herself to simply listen to the painting and go where it takes her. Painting layer upon layer, often destroying or obscuring one layer to create the next, she moves through the process until the painting is "fully baked." Both terrified and mesmerized, she sees this way of painting as a mirror to life, with the potential to produce something that is richer and more nuanced than anything that she might have planned with precision.

The work of Monika Steinhoff places dreams, visions, and daydreams in a positive relationship to utopia. The ability to wonder, often lost in adulthood, is particularly important in this context. Eyes filled with wonder do not see the world as it is but that it is. Fully aware of the overabundance of daily information, the availability of images and words, and the resulting emptiness, Monika Steinhoff creates paintings that address the short-sighted, functional realism of our time. It is not the contradiction of daily reality but rather the sense of the infinite beyond the temporal goals of these fantastic images that break through the familiar form. She researches the repertory of reality thoroughly by experimenting with her creative methods and by validating new combinations.

Painting for R Dianne is a way to fully and viscerally see the world and to share profound beauty with others. Every step in the process brings the viewer and herself closer to the subject: Searching the environment for scenes that move her, sketching and doing color studies, scrutinizing the color scheme and mixing dozens of colors she sees, applying the paint in ways that bring others to know the world she loves and want to share. Every point in the process helps her to fully experience the world and catch a moment and a place so that others may do the same.

Bonnie creates paintings with a sensual beauty, using nature and its diversity as her inspiration. These abstract paintings reflect her inner landscape and her intention to spark an internal dialogue. She wants to conjure up the unexpected that interrupts the reality of daily routines. That thoughtful moment of contemplation.

Color is of supreme importance to Emily's work, as is spontaneity. Color gives her direction. It tells her where it wants to go….it is a language all of its own. She loves the way paint responds to paper…the texture, the saturation, the sinking in….. the chance meeting of two colors...the randomness of their blending, their union.

Anne Vidovich-O'Shea is a watercolor, mixed media, acrylic, and oil painter. She had been making art for 25 years. She is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. She fell madly in love with creating paintings in different mediums. She is inspired by the surroundings and colors of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her art style allows the viewer to feel free and uninhibited with bold colors, abstract designs, and a feeling of comfort with a twist of surprise. Being in nature and enjoying the bold, rich colors of New Mexico has inspired her to bring those elements into her artwork. She enjoys being creative with a multitude of media and continues to play and experiment with watercolor, collage, oil paints, acrylic, alcohol inks, resin, and encaustic. She believes freedom and expression of creativity are vital to our well-being. She would love to be a part of making your house truly a sanctuary filled with items that you love and inspire you. She invites you to experience her paintings.

Stephanie West grew up in New Mexico. Her relatives are ranchers who grow wheat and barley and raise cattle. Old Spice and Bees were her first inspiration for a school drawing. At age five, she was with her father when the swarm attacked his scent. What followed was a teacher meeting, which suggested that she be encouraged. Stephanie West explores a variety of styles in her work, including representational, expressionistic, and illustrative. Her subjects include landscape and still life, often of meaningful objects and talismans. Stephanie’s art represents her drive to capture the essence of place, time, and objects with a determination to share their story. Her paintings preserve fleeting moments for generations to enjoy.

Marcia has always drawn people, which led her to study human anatomy in college and pursue a career as a medical illustrator. She specializes in surgical illustration, which requires very specific, tight renderings. However, she longs to paint outside the lines and not have to make the arteries red and the veins blue. So now she is a fine artist working to convey images with fewer details and more overall freedom. Marcia still paints people, but she finds more and more that she is going outside with her oil paints in her backpack to follow an arroyo or a mountain stream and learn about the bones of the land she lives in.