WORD PAINTINGS #147 – CELEBRATING STILLNESS
Studio #125 – BESIDE STILL WATERS (Rio Grande at Pilar, New Mexico) – NEW! 24″x30″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen, framed in gold with Linen Liner. Now available at McLarry Fine Art – Santa Fe. 4 December 2024 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – Oh my, hasn’t this been an interesting year? Felt numb after the […]
WORD PAINTINGS #146 – FEAR, UNCERTAINTY AND DOUBT
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) is a manipulative propaganda tactic used in sales, marketing, public relations, politics, polling, and cults. FUD is generally a strategy to influence perception by disseminating negative and dubious or false information, and is a manifestation of the appeal to fear – Wikipedia Even though cable newscasters tell us we have […]
WORD PAINTINGS #145 – – GONE TO SANCTUARY
Llano Quemado, New Mexico “Forward and backward I have gone and for me it has been an immense journey…..Perhaps there is no meaning in it at all, the thought went on inside of me,save that of the journey itself, so far as men can see. It has altered with the chances of life, and the […]
WORD PAINTINGS #144 – GUATEMALA 1991 PART V – TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES
Bearers of Light – Easter 1991 -Chichicastenango, Guatemala (How I Came to New Mexico and learned about Art and Life) – Had been angry with Anthony Bourdain ever since I heard the announcement of his suicide. What a waste! He had it all. Truth is he had seen it all and finally the world […]
WORD PAINTINGS #143 – GUATEMALA 1991 PART IV – INCIDENTS AT COPAN
5 May 2024 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) It is a mystery to me why this past Easter Season brought back so many vivid memories of my trip to Guatemala… the magnificent processions, the colorful village life, the ever present sense of danger. This past month I have read most of The Blindfold’s Eye by Sister […]
WORD PAINTINGS # 142 – GUATEMALA PART III – CIVIL WAR
The pace of this trip was exhausting. Prior to heading for the Friday Market in Solola and Lake Atitlan we had spent a night at Posada de Belen. Damp dark sleeping room – the courtyard where Sister Ortiz had been kidnapped – my first hint that this was far more than a photo trip for […]
WORD PAINTINGS #141 – GUATEMALA 1991 PART II – EASTER SUNDAY IN CHICHICASTENANGO
“A dream is a wish your heart makes when you’re fast asleep”. Remembering that day in 1956 when teachers Ms. Schaefer and Ms. Flynn regaled my Spanish class with colorful stories of their trip to Guatemala. Their excitement about spending Easter Sunday in an exotic-sounding place called Chichicastenango was joyful!!! Chills, goosebumps, their excitement was […]
WORD PAINTINGS #140 – GUATEMALA 1991 – SEMANA SANTA PART I
February 1991 – Listening to Joseph the Starwatcher while painting my Taos studio, I heard an ad from the Center for Anthropological Studies announcing a group trip through Guatemala. Having just sold a large canvas at my Santa Fe gallery, I thought “Aha, this is my chance to get some good photographs for a new […]
RIO FERNANDO – NEW! 8″x10″ Original Oil –
RIO FERNANDO (New Mexico) – NEW! 8″x10 Original oil on linen panel, custom framed in gold with linen liner, free shipping –https://www.ebay.com/itm/395190682926
SANTA FE RFD, 11″x14″ Original Oil, Framed – SOLD
First painting of this New Year! SANTA FE RFD, 11″x14″ Framed in Gold, free shipping…SOLD