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 […]

Note: This opening took place sometime ago now but the post was pushed back because I was documenting the new gallery coming into being. My apologies Barbara! I couldn’t help thinking, over and over again, “I’m not in Truchas anymore,” like Dorothy and her Kansas. My friend, Barbara McCauley, (see previous posts A Journey of […]

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 […]

Adam Wimsatt had a dream. He wanted to develop a successful blog, but he’s built with a brain for math and science. Writing has been a struggle and after a few failed attempts at starting his own blog he realized he needed someone else to do the writing while he concentrated on the technology. That’s […]

Many of you were intrigued by my friend from the film industry who felt unable to participate on the blog using her real name, so she chose the pseudonym, Lashes LaRoo (see previous posts Lashes LaRoo: Tales of the Film Industry, Part 1 and Part 2). But I want to assure you she is very […]

Marco Oviedo has been making art since he was six years old. “Longer than I want to admit,” he says. He belongs to one of the few families that have been continuously, over the last 500 years, doing this same process. There is an example in a text he shares, showing a piece by his […]