Donna Clair

Southwest Contemporary Artist

Category: Art Journal

AGUA FRIA – SANTA FE EXHIBIT

“AGUA FRIA” – 30″ x 24″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner…..now on exhibit at McLarry Fine Art Gallery, 225 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, N.M. Gallery opening, Friday, May 22nd – 5 to 7PM — to view complete exhibit — http://www.mclarryfineart.com/donnaclair.html Am in a really quiet place right now […]

A PERSONAL INVITATION…….

YOU ARE INVITED TO AN EXHIBIT OF MY NEW PAINTINGS AT MCLARRY FINE ART GALLERY, 225 CANYON ROAD, SANTA FE, N.M. – May 22nd, 5 to 7PM

“DULCES, DULCES!” -NEW Original Oil Painting

“DULCES, DULCES!”(Candy sellers taking a morning break – Juarez, Mexico) NEW 6″x8″ Original Oil on Italian Gessoed PanelFor more information, please call my Taos Studio at(575) 758-7454

“LAST LIGHT” – SOLD

“LAST LIGHT” — SOLD “LAST LIGHT” – 6″X8″ Original Oil Painting, Framed in Silver with Linen Liner. Oil study/View from my kitchen window after the last snowstorm in Taos Valley — the last moment before sunset.

“WAITING” – NEW ORIGINAL OIL – SOLD

“WAITING” – SOLD “WAITING” – 6″X8″ Original Oil Painting, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner. Oil study/Saturday’s groceries – waiting to go home to the pueblo and prepare for the Feast Day. For price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at (575) 758-7454.

“WINTER RIVER” – SOLD

“WINTER RIVER” – SOLD 6″x8″ Original Oil on Italian Gesso PanelFramed in Silver with Linen Liner

“NOCHECITA” – Sold

“NOCHECITA” – SOLD 6″x8″ Original Oil on Italian Gesso PanelFramed in Gold with Linen Liner

“CAMPOSANTO” – New Original Oil

“CAMPOSANTO” 6″X8″ Orig. Oil on Italian Gesso PanelFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

“THE READER”

“THE READER” – Not for Sale 6″x8″ Original Oil on Italian Wood PanelFramed in Gold with Linen Liner

TABORET – 15 APRIL 2009

15 April 2009 — DANCING WITH THE EASEL! Getting back to work after taking some time off to regenerate and trying to create some order in my life (chuckle, chuckle!). Need to warm up again (the yoga of painting) — have begun some small oil studies which I will post here and then put up […]

“COFRADIA” – Click here to visit my Website

“COFRADIA” Easter Sunday — The hermanos of the Cofradia – Antigua, GuatemalaThis image is available as a Studio Edition PrintYou are invited to visit my website at the above linkOr just call my Taos Studio to order(575) 758-7454

BLANK IS THE BEGINNING

BLANK IS THE END, AND BLANK IS THE BEGINNING – After completing the paintings for my Santa Fe exhibit, a lot of catch up work on the house, including a spring cleaning for the studio. I looked at that blank canvas on the easel today and thought it would be wonderful if I could start […]

“CAPILLA DE PLACITAS” Click here to visit The High Road Print Catalogue

“CAPILLA DE PLACITAS” — One of my “touchstones” on the High Road to Truchas — As I remember this day, I climbed a little way up the water tower across the street from this church in order to take this photograph — ah, Youth! This image is now available as a Studio Edition Print in […]

“INTO THE LIGHT” – Click here to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE

“INTO THE LIGHT” — There are backroads; there are days where the wind blows strong, the clouds fly fast over the landscape — one minute you are in deep shadows and soon you emerge into the light….just another day in the north country! This image is now available as a Studio Edition Print — click […]

CASITAS DEL NORTE = Click here to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE

“CASITAS DEL NORTE” – A view of the main street in Truchas town from in front of the old church, La Nuestra Senora del Rosario……wonderful old adobes, another time….. Now available as a Studio Edition Print from The High Road Print Catalogue — you are invited to visit my website through the above link.

“NUESTRA SENORA” – Click here to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE

“LA NUESTRA SENORA DEL ROSARIO” – Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church, Truchas, N.M. — The foundations of this church are over 250 years old — there is a new church down the road a bit where the priest says Sunday Mass — but this old church is the heart of the village. Now […]

“MAYORDOMO” – Click here to visit The High Road Catalogue

“MAYORDOMO” – Now available as a Studio Edition Print.(Visit the High Road Print Catalogue to order) A Mayordomo is the official elected to maintain the irrigation system known as the Acequia Madre — centuries old “Mother Ditches” that bring water from the mountains to the villages here in northern New Mexico. He oversees the spring […]

“SUNSET DREAMING” – NEW Original Oil Painting

“SUNSET DREAMING”NEW 14″x11″ Original Oil Painting on LinenFramed in Gold with Linen Liner This is the winter view from my kitchen window — looking toward the Pecos Wilderness — at sunset, after a snowstorm. This window never disappoints and never fails to surprise — Ah, the wonders I have seen! Whooping Cranes, wild snowstorms, forest […]

VIEW FROM MY TAOS WINDOW

26 January 2009 — Good Morning from Taos! — This is the view from my kitchen window — I have looked at this scene for almost twenty years now and it never appears quite the same. Some years ago my neighbor built a pond in front of his barn and every so often a pair […]

AMALIA AFTERNOON – SOLD

“AMALIA AFTERNOON” – NEW 6″x12″ Original OilFramed in Gold with Linen Liner – SOLD PS: One of my favorite day trips is to head north out of Taos to the little villages of Amalia and Costilla – photograph, sketch and later sit on a huge boulder next to the river and have a wonderful picnic […]

ABOVE THE VALLEY – 30X40″ NEW COMPLETED ORIGINAL OIL

Good Monday to All! “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” – William Shakespeare…….“ABOVE THE VALLEY” – New Original Oil Painting on Fine Belgian Linen, completed 10 January 2009. To be framed in gold with linen liner. A view from the rim road at Llano San Juan de Nepomuseno, El Llano, N.M. For price […]

PASSING STORM – SOLD

“PASSING STORM” – NEW ORIGINAL OIL ON LINEN6″x12″ Framed in Gold with Linen Liner SOLD!

WINTER IN TAOS

7 January 2009 — No explanation necessary – huge snowstorm two days ago — the snow plow came through today and helped me dig out the driveway — very quiet, very beautiful — soft and silent, but I do know why birds fly south for the winter! DC

ABOVE THE VALLEY – WORK IN PROGRESS (PHASE II)

“ABOVE THE VALLEY” — NEW WORK IN PROGRESS (PHASE TWO: THE GLAZES) 30″x40″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen — A birds-eye view of Llano San Juan de Nepomuseno, El Llano, New Mexico – 30″x40″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen – Work in Progress (Phase #2 – The Glazes – see definition of colors under […]

ABOVE THE VALLEY – WORK IN PROGRESS

“ABOVE THE VALLEY” – A birds-eye view of Llano San Juan de Nepomuseno, El Llano, New Mexico – 30″x40″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen – Work in Progress (Phase #1 – Underpainting) — Mixing my oil colors with MG Underpainting White and Turpentine: Red foliage – burnt sienna and alizarin crimson. Fields: Yellow Ochre Blues: […]

PUEBLO MORNING LIGHT – Click here for Print Catalogue

“PUEBLO MORNING LIGHT” – Archival Giclee from the High Road Print Catalogue – Prints are made to order – – This image is printed using the highest quality Epson Archival Chrome Inks on Epson Ultra Premium Art Paper (Matte) –heavy-weight stock. The colors highly saturate the bright white base and the end result is an […]

NEW PRINTS AVAILABLE/DONNA CLAIR EBAY STORE – Click here to view

“MORNING POEM” — This image and 24 others are now available at my EBay Store. All Prints are made to order – – This image is printed using the highest quality Epson Archival Chrome Inks on Epson Ultra Premium Art Paper (Matte) –heavy-weight stock. The colors highly saturate the bright white base and the end […]

WINTER GIFTS

FELICIDADES A TODOS! Am headed into my comfy cave for a long winter’s nap — will resume posts and e.mails December 29th…..best wishes to all, Donna. There is nothing I can give you which you have not; But there is much, very much that while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can […]

“NESTLED IN” — 28″x22″ New Original Painting

“NESTLED IN” – 28″X22″ New Original Oil Painting on Fine Belgian Linen, framed in gold with Linen Liner. One of the things I truly love about painting is the freedom I have to create my own reality– to change an image — “pentimento” — to paint over what I thought was good two days or […]

DONDE NACE LA LLUVIA (Where the Rain Begins)

“DONDE NACE LA LLUVIA” (Where the Rain Begins) – Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings […]

WINTER DREAMS

“WINTER DREAMS” Hello from snowy Taos! — This is one of my all-time favorite places — it was the winter road home to the ranch on Llano Quemado, Truchas. Laid in supplies of groceries – if it snowed during the Christmas holidays, the snow plow wouldn’t make it for a few days. Lots of books […]

GIVING THANKS

BEST WISHES FROM TAOS FOR A VERY PEACEFUL AND HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

“THE SUN SINGERS”

“THE SUN SINGERS”— #240 Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no obligation […]

EL OTONO DE SANTA FE

“EL OTONO DE SANTA FE” — #115 Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there […]

OUR DAILY BREAD

“OUR DAILY BREAD” – A friend and I visited Taos Pueblo many years ago on a very cold and windy January day — we bought the loaf of bread this lady was taking out of her horno and ate the whole thing! Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are […]

CHAMISAL PASTORAL

“CHAMISAL PASTORAL” – Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no obligation to […]

“YELLOW MUMS” – NEW Original Painting

“YELLOW MUMS”(Completed 11/18/08)See Oct. 14th post for Underpainting NEW Original 28″x22″ Oil Painting on Fine Belgian LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

HEART OF VALDEZ (Study) – New Original Oil Painting

“THE HEART OF VALDEZ” (Study)(Completed 11/17/08) New Original Oil Painting – 11×14″ on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

WILD ASTERS AT PICURIS

“WILD ASTERS AT PICURIS” – Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no […]

EARLY MOONRISE AT TRUCHAS –

“EARLY MOONRISE AT TRUCHAS” – Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no […]

LAST LIGHT AT TRUCHAS

“LAST LIGHT AT TRUCHAS” – Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no […]

EL VALLE SIN NOMBRE

“EL VALLE SIN NOMBRE” – (VALLEY WITHOUT A NAME) Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings […]

“EVENING PRAYER STICKS”

“EVENING PRAYER STICKS” – Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no obligation […]

CASA VIEJA DE CHIMAYO

“LA CASA VIEJA DE CHIMAYO” – Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is […]

LOS DIAS DE ORO

LOS DIAS DE ORO – Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no […]

AUTUMN CHAPEL

AUTUMN CHAPEL Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no obligation to buy […]

AUTUMN FIELDS – SOLD

“AUTUMN FIELDS” (Valdez, N.M.)–SOLD28″x22″ Completed Original Oil on Belgian LinenFramed in Gold with Linen Liner 26 October 2008 — Had a great time with this painting and all the while I sat at the easel, I had the feeling I was just holding the brush — that the canvas almost painted itself! When I gathered […]

AUTUMN FIELDS – PHASE TWO — THE GLAZES

“AUTUMN FIELDS” (VALDEZ, N.M.)28″x22″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen 21 October 2008 — Have had a great time working into this painting with the glazes. The fields are a combination of Mars Orange, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre and some Chrome Oxide Green Opaque. The Trees: A combination of Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna and some […]

AUTUMN FIELDS – Work in Progress

17 October 2008 — WORK IN PROGRESS –“AUTUMN FIELDS” (Valdez, N.M.), 28″X22″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen — Am in the process of blocking in some new canvases for my Santa Fe exhibit next year and here is another — Painted loosely over a “grisaille” (greyed gesso background) — the colors are mixed with Foundation […]

EARLY SNOW CLOUDS AT PICURIS – Archival Giclee

“EARLY SNOW CLOUDS AT PICURIS” Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no […]

YELLOW MUMS – Underpainting

14 October 2008 –YELLOW MUMS –28″x22″ Oil on Belgian Linen. Here is the first underpainting of my winter work. It’s raining today — chilly, cold — know it’s snowing on Taos Mountain…..Just thought I’d start out with something bright and cheerful. The colors are mixed with fast-drying Foundation White — highlights on the flowers – […]

WINTER IS A COMIN’!

9 October 2008 — Yep, winter is a comin’ and my supply of paints, turps and brushes have arrived from Jerry’s Artarama! My Santa Fe show is scheduled for May 22, 2009, but photography of the larger paintings needs to be done in January in order to meet advertising schedules — and the work will […]

CAPILLA DE VELARDE – NEW ARCHIVAL GICLEE

“CAPILLA DE VELARDE” New archival giclee Print on Fine Art Paper – Available in two sheet sizes 19″x13″ ($60.00) and 17″x22″ ($100.00), plus $10.00 S&H. Prints are enclosed in PolyFoldlock envelope and shipped flat. Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover available through my studio. To order, please call (575)758-7454.

LLANO WINTER – NEW ARCHIVAL GICLEE

“LLANO WINTER” New archival giclee Print on Fine Art Paper – Available in two sheet sizes 19″x13″ ($60.00) and 17″x22″ ($100.00), plus $10.00 S&H. Prints are enclosed in PolyFoldlock envelope and shipped flat. Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover available through my studio. To order, please call (575)758-7454.

CAPILLA DE AMALIA – New Archival Giclee

“CAPILLA DE AMALIA” New archival giclee Print on Fine Art Paper – Available in two sheet sizes 19″x13″ ($60.00) and 17″x22″ ($100.00), plus $10.00 S&H. Prints are enclosed in PolyFoldlock envelope and shipped flat. Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover available through my studio. To order, please call (575)758-7454.

NUESTRA SENORA DEL ROSARIO – NEW GICLEE

“LA NUESTRA SENORA DEL ROSARIO”(Truchas, New Mexico) New archival giclee Print on Fine Art Paper – Available in two sheet sizes 19″x13″ ($60.00) and 17″x22″ ($100.00), plus $10.00 S&H. Prints are enclosed in PolyFoldlock envelope and shipped flat. Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover available through my studio. To order, please call (575)758-7454.

SNOW DAY

“SNOW DAY” (SANTA FE) New 11″x14″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Silver with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

AMALIA AFTERNOON – New Original Oil

“AMALIA AFTERNOON” New 6″x12″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

HOME, HOME ON THE RANCH – New Orig. Oil

“HOME, HOME ON THE RANCH”(Llano Quemado, Truchas, N.M.) New 11″x14″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

AUTUMN DREAMS – New Original Oil

“AUTUMN DREAMS” New 14″x11″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

RIO PUEBLO – New Original Oil Painting

“RIO PUEBLO” NEW 14″x11″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

PASSING STORM – New Original Oil

“PASSING STORM” New 6″x12″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

EL CORAZON DE PLACITAS — New Original Oil

“EL CORAZON DE PLACITAS” New 14″x11″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

RIO LUCIO – New Original Oil Painting

“RIO LUCIO” New 6″x12″ Original Oil on Fine LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

UNA TARDE EN EL LLANO – New Original Oil

“UNA TARDE EN EL LLANO” – Study New 11″x14″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454