Donna Clair

Southwest Contemporary Artist

MY NEIGHBOR’S HOUSE – 8″x16″ Original Oil, Framed

MY NEIGHBOR’S HOUSE (Truchas, New Mexico) – 8″x16″ Original Oil, framed (available – Preview Painting) – Don Eusavio was my next door neighbor when I lived in Truchas and by observing him each day, he taught me how to live. He had lived in the same house for most of his life and there was […]

CAPILLA DE PLACITAS – 10″x10″ Original Oil, framed

CAPILLA DE PLACITAS -10″x10″ Original Oil on Canvas, framed (available – Preview painting)  Still remember the first time I saw this little church years and years ago on one of my many trips back home to Truchas.  Had my camera with me – parked near the gas statiion across the road and climbed part way […]

SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO 1967 – THE ADVENTURE BEGINS….

THE ROAD HOME – 8″x16″ Original Oil, framed – available – Preview Painting.    SEPTEMBER 1967 – We rented a small adobe house on Alegre St. from an old cowboy named Les Langley – across our backyard fence was Rosario Cemetary.  The babies were still in diapers and crawling and the only heat was with floor […]

TUCUMCARI, NEW MEXICO -AND THE YEAR IS 1967…..

A HAPPY LITTLE CLOUD (Taos, New Mexico) – 36″x40 Original Oil on Belgian Linen- available – Preview Painting………Sometime in the middle of September in 1967 husband Jack and I had watched the moving van leave our house on Riegel Rd. in Homewood, Ill. My son John was two and my twins, Mary and Sarah, were […]

GRATEFUL…….

TAOS MOUNTAIN DREAMING (Taos, New Mexico – 8″x16″ Original Oil, framed – now available – Preview Painting. “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.  Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted that flame within us” – Albert Schweitzer….This […]

HONEST CONVERSATION….

Studio No. 417 – TAOS SUMMER STORM – 24″x30″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen, framed – Preview Painting.  It took weeks of self-arguing to finally post the truth about losing my son.  Looked back on my life for the last 2-1/2 years today – I sat in a big brown recliner for a year and […]

UNA SENDA DESCONOCIDO – A PATH UNKNOWN

UNA SENDA DESCONOCIDO –  A Path Unknown.  Just waking up from a long nap and finally admitting to myself that I don’t know what I don’t know.  Each Saturday morning when I was a little girl, there was a radio program called “Let’s Pretend” – “Hi, I’m Buster Brown, I live in a shoe!  That’s […]

Losing John……12/25/2014

Santa Fe, New Mexico – In the early minutes of Christmas morning 2014, my beautiful 49 year old son, John, died.  Parts of me died with him and life was forever changed.  Deep grief is a dangerous adventure – a hostile and treacherous landscape with no visible escape route.  Stumbling through most of 2015, I […]

PLACITAS – 40″x30″ Original Oil, Framed

CAPILLA DE PLACITAS (Placitas, New Mexico) – 40″x30″ Original Oil, framed. Now available for purchase at our 3 Artists of Taos Open Studio exhibit – 27th, 28th and 29th from 12 to 5PM – Preview Studio Inventory.