Donna Clair

Southwest Contemporary Artist

Author: Donna Clair

WORD PAINTINGS #129 – FULL MOON IN LEO!

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Studio #123 – DREAMKEEPER STUDY (Moonset 11/11/22 – Llano Quemado, N.M.) – 12″x12″ Original Oil on Linen canvas, custom framed – free shipping – https://www.ebay.com/itm/155389993132 WORD PAINTINGS #129 (How I Came to New Mexico and learned about Art and Life)…. 4 February 2023  – Still dark at 5:45 AM . A very fat and bright […]

CELEBRATING 23 YEARS OF DONNA CLAIR ART.COM!!!

Celebrating 23 years of online sales from my website with a new look!!!! https://donnaclairart.com/ More than 25 years ago I read about a man who had a “computer” and was earning his living from a mountaintop in Colorado!!! I had to wait a while, but my first website was created in 2000! What an innovation! […]

STUDIO #123 – DREAMKEEPER STUDY – NEW 12″x12″ Original Oil, custom framed

  Studio #123 – DREAMKEEPER STUDY (Moonset 11/11/22 – Llano Quemado, N.M.) – 12″x12″ Original Oil on Linen canvas, custom framed – free shipping – https://www.ebay.com/itm/155389993132   Bring me all of your dreams You dreamer Bring me all of your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud cloth away from the […]

ARCO DE IRIS – 8″X16″ ORIGINAL OIL

ARCO DE IRIS (Rainbow from Santistevan Lane – 2017 – Taos) – 8″x16″ Original Oil on Canvas, framed in black with linen liner – free shipping –https://www.ebay.com/itm/155380461209

FIRST PAINTING OF THE NEW YEAR – DREAMKEEPER WORK IN PROGRESS

ON MY EASEL TODAY! Studio #123 -WORKS IN PROGRESS DREAMKEEPER – 12″x12″ Oil Study for 30″x30″ Original Oil. Early morning on Nov. 11, 2022 I lifted the bedroom window shade and saw this moonset over Tres Orejas. Just stood there for a long time and then I sat down to make some color notes, (will […]

TRIBUTE – Margaret Jamison and Julian Robles

Paying Tribute – Portrait of Margaret Jamison (Santa Fe Gallery Owner, friend and mentor) painted by friend Julian Robles who recently passed. (1970 or thereabouts?) Wonderful people – truly missed! 

GREETINGS!

To Friends Everywhere! A very special holiday greeting from my house to yours.The original of this painting is titled WINTER GIFTS. “Adopted” by some great friends and very prolific art collectors years ago and still resides in a lovely home in Taos. The street in this painting is the main street in Truchas — I walked […]

LA NOCHEBUENA – PRINTS, GREETING CARDS…..

 LA NOCHEBUENA (Christmas Night -La Nuestra Senora del Rosario – Truchas, New Mexico) – Prints, greeting cards, posters and many great items now at FINE ART AMERICA – https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-donna-clair

WORD PAINTINGS #127 – WINTER WORK

WORD PAINTINGS #127 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned about Art and Life) – WINTER WORK  27 November 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – A Perfect New Beginning!!! Wakened to huge fluffy snowflakes at 7Am. a veritable whiteout!  Now 10:30AM – the grey clouds are clearing and all the pretty white stuff is […]

PUEBLO MORNING LIGHT – Prints, greeting cards….

PUEBLO MORNING LIGHT (Taos Pueblo, New Mexico) – Prints, greeting cards, posters and many other great gift ideas now available at FINE ART AMERICA – https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-donna-clair

WINTER DREAMS (Truchas, New Mexico) – Prints, greeting cards, and many other great items now available at FINE ART AMERICA – https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-donna-clair/shop…

AFTERNOON SHADOWS (Taos, New Mexico) – PRINTS, GREETING CARDS, POSTERS…..

  Choose your greeting cards and gifts from over 150 images – prints, posters and many other great items now available at FINE ART AMERICA – https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-donna-clair   AFTERNOON SHADOWS (TAOS, NEW MEXICO) – View from my kitchen window on Santistevan Lane – winter storm heading off into the Pecos Wilderness – Enjoy! DC

RIO CHIQUITO (New Mexico) – Prints, greeting cards and much more….

RIO CHIQUITO (NEW MEXICO) – Over 150 images now available as prints, greeting cards, posters – and many great items now available at FINE ART AMERICA – https://fineartamerica.com/…/rio-chiquito-donna-clair.html   There are so many beautiful small valleys in New Mexico, especially in the northern mountains. I often travel the back road from Chimayo through Cundiyo and […]

WORD PAINTINGS #126 – BLANK IS A NEW BEGINNING

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20 October 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico)- The father of my three children died yesterday.  These past few weeks have been very strange.  His dying was very long and protracted. Painful. Daily updates from one of our twin daughters. We had been divorced for over 52 years. Memories of our nine years together and how […]

WORD PAINTINGS #125 – LOST AND FOUND

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6 August 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – So often life is a balancing act!  It falls to pieces but miracle after miracle the missing pieces show up and we get to sort them out one by one – leaving behind those that no longer fit.  This is such an interesting time to be alive!!   […]

WORD PAINTINGS #124 – RAIN, RAIN, RAIN, RAIN – BLESSED RAIN!!!

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WORD PAINTINGS #124 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned About Life and Art) -RAIN, RAIN, RAIN, RAIN – BLESSED RAIN!!! 3 July 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – Sunday morning silence – not even the birds are singing!  Truth is we are all exhausted from the heavy drama of this time since the […]

WORD PAINTINGS # 123 – UP IN SMOKE!

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    WORD PAINTINGS #123 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned about Art and Life) – UP IN SMOKE! 11 June 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – The Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon fire has consumed over 320,000 acres and is 67% contained. Yesterday a new fire broke out north of El Rito burning 500 […]

WORD PAINTINGS #122 – BACK TO THE BEGINNING AGAIN!

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           WORD PAINTINGS #122 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned About Art and Life)             A MAN IS RICH AS HIS WOODPILE (From the High Road, Northern New Mexico)                                                    ***************************** WORD PAINTINGS #122 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned About Art and Life) 5 June 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) […]

LLANO SAN JUAN, NEW MEXICO – CANTO HONDO (DEEP SONG)

CANTO HONDO (DEEP SONG) – LLANO SAN JUAN – Over 18,000 of our Northern New Mexico neighbors have been displaced due to the Calf Canyon/Hermit’s Peak Fire. Donations of clothing and food are being collected at the large Agricultural Building in back of the Sagebrush Inn. Pet food is being collected for the strays displaced […]

WORD PAINTINGS #120 – A CRUEL SEASON

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WORD PAINTINGS #120 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned About Life and Art) – A CRUEL SEASON 4 May 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – View from my kitchen window: What began as a few plumes of white over towards Las Vegas on or about the 20th of April became 75,000 acres forest […]

PRAYERS FOR NORTHERN NEW MEXICO….

Prayers for the north country – Mora, Las Vegas, Jemez – Have been wandering these roads for 55 years beautiful places, wonderful people – many, many paintings…heartbroken. (Capilla de Guadalupita – 2004)

WORD PAINTINGS #119 – GOING TO SANCTUARY

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  30 April 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – High winds, forest fires – smoky haze settling on Taos Valley.  Heard yesterday that he winds will pick up again today. I can hear some whistles at the windows.  Rain clouds formed over the area across from my kitchen window.  Plumes of smoke from the Las […]

WORD PAINTINGS #118 – EARTH, WIND AND FIRE!!

  25 April 2022     (Llano Quemado, New Mexico)  – All I can say is “WOW”!!! Yesterday definitely felt like the end of the world. Sixty mile an hour winds up here on the Llano (94 mile an hour at the Ski Valley).  Blowing from south toward Taos Mountain the sand and dust was thick […]

WORD PAINTINGS #117 – A CANDLE FOR GRAMPA JIM

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GOOD FRIDAY – 15 April 2022.  Just lit a candle for my Grampa Jim.  The story goes that Valentin Danielewski came over on the boat from either Prussia or Poland when he was eight years old.  As a young adult he Americanized his name to Jim Daniels.  In time he married my grandmother Ella, adopted […]

WORD PAINTINGS #116 – CENTINELAS DE ORO

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STUDIO #1322 – CENTINELAS DE ORO (Rio Grande at Pilar, New Mexico) NEW! 30″X40″ Original Oil  13 April 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – Opened my window last night to hear the coyotes way down by the river.  The winds started up early this morning and they are Fierce!  Some gusts make the house shake.  […]

WORD PAINTINGS #115 – INTO THE GREAT UNKNOWN

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  “The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again. Children, everybody, here’s what to do during war: In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A community. A […]

CENTINELAS DE ORO – 30″x40″ WORK IN PROGRESS (Underpainting) – Color Notes

3/2/22 – ON MY EASEL TODAY! CENTINELAS DE ORO – 30″x40″ Work in Progress – Underpainting:  Colors blocked in with MG Underpainting White and Winsor Newton English Distilled Turpentine.  Sky”Misty Blue, Kings Blue. Mountains: Prussian Blue, Diox. Purple, Rose Grey.  Treeees: Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Gold Ochre, Burnt Sienna. – Repeat for foreground.  

WORD PAINTINGS #114 – WINTER WORK!

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17 February 2022 – SNOW DAY!!!  A few warm and balmy days this week followed by a big, belching blizzard this morning! I love it!!  Breakfast, coffee and now to settle in for a quiet day of painting.  

ON MY EASEL TODAY…..

                               ALPENGLOW – 20″x20″ Work in Progress.   AUTUMN LEAVES – 12″x9 Work in Progress.

ALPENGLOW – NEW 20″X20″ ORIGINAL OIL (WORK IN PROGRESS – UNDERPAINTING)

ALPENGLOW – NEW 20″x20″ Original Oil – Work in Progress (Underpainting) – Oil colors mixed with MG Underpainting White and thinned with English distilled Turpentine. Top Sky:Misty Blue,King’s Blue – Permalba White.  Mid sky – the blue mixed with Thalo Rose Red – next Thalo Rose Red and Permalba White – Cadmium Yellow.   Mountains – […]

NEW! PLACITA – 8″x10″ Original Oil

  Studio # 622 – PLACITA (Placita, New Mexico) – NEW! 8″x10″ Original Oil on Linen Panel, framed in gold with linen liner – available at Online Gallery.

ON MY EASEL – 1/26/22

1/26/22 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) ON MY EASEL TODAY – also five NEW small paintings now availabe from my Online Gallery/Store!!! ENJOY!!! 

WORD PAINTINGS #113 – INTO THE DREAMTIME

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I dream a lot. I do more painting when I’m not painting. It’s in the subconscious.   One’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes. It’s all in how you arrange the thing… the careful balance of the design is the motion. -Andrew Wyeth- 29 November 2021 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) […]

WINTER GIFTS…..

  20 December 2021 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) Today my studio is fresh with some New Beginnings – planning to send newsletters right after the first of the year; in the meantime…. This painting is “Winter Gifts”. The original of this work was “adopted” by some great friends and very prolific art collectors years ago […]

BLESSINGS….

Best wishes to all for a Happy Thanksgiving!!! “OUR DAILY BREAD” (Taos Pueblo – Taos, New Mexico) – Still grateful for this wonderful day with artist and friend Dan Bodelson. We bought that splendiferous loaf of bread straight from the oven. Best lunch ever!! Must have been over 50 years ago – so Grateful!!!!