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Welcome to our art blog page. Here you can read posts from our main fine art blog and also from the art blog written by Kristin Hoerth, Southwest Art magazine’s Editor in Chief. Whether you are an avid art collector, an artist, or simply an admirer of fine art, our art blogs are a great way to stay informed about the western art scene. Follow these fine art blogs to learn about art events, art collecting, emerging artists, and more from the editors at Southwest Art magazine—the collector’s choice for over 40 years!

Lorenzo Chavez, Spring Creek, oil, 16 x 20.

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...

Rance Jones, Gecko, watercolor, 38 x 30.

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.
Cliff Faces by Barbara Coleman.

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...

Morning Chill by Carolyn Lindsey.

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...

Overlooking the Chama by Nancy Silvia.

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...

The Inheritance by Sandhya Sharma.

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,...

Sparkle by Madina Croce.

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...