WORD PAINTINGS #103 – A WANDERING MIND
FIRST SNOW (Truchas, New Mexico) New 40″x40″ Original Oil – Sold 16 October 2020 – Llano Quemado, New Mexico. Can you believe it? Only 18 more days until the election! Morning memories, thoughts are sometimes very powerful. Today a connection was made to my childhood comparing that time to these last four years of […]
WORD PAINTINGS #102 – MAKING SPACE TO CREATE
Creativity begins with the heart and mind….however there is so much more to making a painting than hopes and wishes….. Here is the first in my series of “sharing my painting secrets” blog posts. Back in the day I created and taught a very popular workshop called “The Craft of Painting”. Artists and newbies came […]
WORD PAINTINGS #101 – SECOND THOUGHTS
9/23/20 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – Yesterday the United States reached a turning point of over 200,000 deaths from the Corona virus. It was 191,000 when I wrote the following blog post on the 9th. In light of all the losses this year – jobs, incomes, fires, hurricanes and all the ever-emerging human tragedies at […]
WORD PAINTINGS #100 – TODAY IS ALL WE HAVE
DON GREGORIO’S WINTER FIELD – 48″X36″ ORIGINAL OIL 23 August 2020 (Llano Quemado -Taos, New Mexico) – Life is uncertain. Taos Mountain is obscured by smoke from the raging fires in California and Arizona. The Medio fire that began in Tesuque near Santa Fe contributes to the soft blurry haziness. My neighbor’s forty or fifty […]
WORD PAINTINGS #99 – LISTENING TO MOUNTAINS V – Birthday Girl!
COSME’S OAKS – Friend Cosme Romero Mayordomo of Truchas for many years LLANO QUEMADO – TRUCHAS, N.M. – September 3, 1984….We had a party! My 44th birthday celebration. Made pots of green chile and posole, nachos, tortillas – and many, many margaritas. Pedro Ribera Ortega the local geneologist and historian sat under the portal for […]
WORD PAINTINGS #98 – MONSOON!!!!
7/18/20 – MONSOON CLOUDS – LLANO QUEMADO, NEW MEXICO 3 August 2020 (Llano Quemado, N.M.) 6AM – The kitchen window is open about 6 inches – very cold air is pouring in – thinking that it will only be about five weeks before there will be the first snow on Taos Mountain and Truchas Peaks. […]
WORD PAINTINGS #97 – LISTENING TO MOUNTAINS IV – NEW LIFE
HOME, HOME ON THE RANCH (LLANO QUEMADO, TRUCHAS, NEW MEXICO) 1983 – Llano Quemado, Truchas, New Mexico – The horse trailers with our six new guests arrived in late winter after the first of the year. Three were definitely with foal. We purchased many bales of hay in anticipation and when the day came, we […]
WORD PAINTINGS #96 – LISTENING TO MOUNTAINS III – AWAKENING
“HIGH COUNTRY MONDAY MORNING” It wasn’t difficult for me to adjust to life on the horse ranch. In the beginning I felt caught between two very alien planets. Santa Fe’s over the top social scene, the intense competition in a newly developing art market, trying to earn a living from making and selling paintings was […]
WORD PAINTINGS #95 – GONE TO SANCTUARY
Llano Quemado Studio this morning – finished paintings and works in progress. 3 July 2020 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – Up at 4AM today – thinking, thinking, thinking- bad case of monkey-mind. Turned on Morning Joe – he is such a bloviator! Switched him off after five minutes. Tried to go back to sleep…nope…fixed a […]
WORD PAINTINGS #94 – LISTENING TO MOUNTAINS II
There definitely is a certain poetry to life and it is usually discovered through the distance of time. Waking up to reality, deep awareness is not for everyone. I did not choose to wake up and gratefully scotch was helping me stay numb to many events from my childhood. Debilitating panic attacks were frequent visitors. […]
