Women Artists of the West | Carolyn C. Bell
View a sampling of oil paintings by artist Carolyn C. Bell, who is participating in Women Artists of the West's National Juried Exhibition & Sale at The Museum of Western Art, in Kerrville, TX.
Women Artists of the West | Amy Evans
View a sampling of oil paintings by artist Amy Evans, who is participating in Women Artists of the West's National Juried Exhibition & Sale at The Museum of Western Art, in Kerrville, TX.
The Views Around Us
I think all of us have some joyful vistas in our lives, whether we live in them now or remember them from the past. No matter where they are, they bring us that transcendent feeling of marveling at the world we live in. For this issue, we’ve gathered a group of...
Out of the Ordinary
Welcome to this special issue in which we celebrate the winners and finalists of our 10th annual Artistic Excellence competition. The process of selecting these winners seems to get more grueling every year, as the quality of the entries continues to impress us.
Plein Air Passion | Barbara Coleman
From her home and studio in the beautiful old tree-lined Huning Castle neighborhood of Albuquerque, NM, Barbara Coleman often takes a five-minute stroll down to the cottonwood-lined banks of the Rio Grande to paint in the open air. Other times, she may be out and about with (but safely socially distanced...
Plein Air Passion | Carolyn Lindsey
“I’ve always gone outside to paint, because I’ve lived out in the country,” says Carolyn Lindsey, recalling times back on the ranch in her native Texas when “my husband would drop me off to go take care of the cattle, and I’d just paint cows and trees without the end of...
Plein Air Passion | Nancy Silvia
About two-thirds of Nancy Silvia’s works are large-scale landscapes in pastels, completed in her studio in Santa Fe, NM. But the other third are plein-air studies that she considers essential steps in the process of creating those larger paintings, allowing her to “directly engage with the landscape, studying the light and...
Plein Air Passion | Sandhya Sharma
Having lived, trained, taught, and painted in Asia, Europe, and Africa, Sandhya Sharma considers herself “a global nomad.” And her art provides “a quiet, underlying narrative” of the people and cultures she connects with along the way through her plein-air painting. “Having now moved homes on three different continents,” she says,...
Plein Air Passion | Madina Croce
One morning in September, as wildfires burned across northern New Mexico, Madina Croce drove about 45 minutes northwest from her home in Santa Fe to the White Rock Overlook, where dramatically smoke-filled skies glowered over the Rio Grande. “I saw my composition, and all I had to do was just put...