“My journey, like that of many of my contemporaries, was a search for a place within which to be at peace and find love…” – An interview with David Sipp

Bill Loyd is the maker of remarkable bells and wind chimes here in Truchas, New Mexico, as well as stunning metal sculpture.

I have been creating and selling sculpture since high school, where I developed my conscious and personal emphasis on artistic design.

Nick Beason is a printmaker, creating both monotypes and etchings, and co-owner of the Gaucho Blue Fine Art Gallery in Peñasco, New Mexico.

Sally Delap-John paints en plein air. She doesn’t even have a studio in her home because the great outdoors is her studio.

Trish Booth says she has always done art (see previous post Opening at Ghost Pony Gallery, Truchas, NM). Everyone thought she would be a writer, though, including herself. In fact her first large purchase, ever, was a “big fat fancy electric typewriter.” She spent $400 on it in 1974. “But then one day I decided [...]

You all know Anna Karin from my posts about putting together our new gallery, The Anna Karin Gallery, here in Truchas, NM. Anna is, of course, my partner in that venture. While I’ve written a post about her before (The Old Adobe Church, the Wolf and Survival), I’ve never written specifically about her work—an oversight [...]

As I’ve said before, many of the artists living up here on the High Road have their own galleries, while often showing in others as well. Like several throughout the villages, Trish Booth and Leonardo Pieterse have theirs, Ghost Pony Gallery, in their home. It’s a perfect scenario because they don’t have to leave to [...]

My friend, Bill Loyd, (see previous post The Farmer’s Mantra) goes to scrap yards looking for inspiration and he finds it in cast off items most of us would overlook. He found just such a piece in an antique tank car “head” from the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway at Capitol Scrap in Santa [...]