High Road Artist

Working Artist on the High Road to Taos

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Beginning to Paint After 26 Years

On August 12, 1996, I picked up my brushes and began to paint again after 26 long years. I remember the day precisely. It was late afternoon in Seattle. A huge storm had blown in and it was pouring down rain. I put on loud music, old Bonnie Raitt, and started making soup. I used […]

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Trish Booth: Painting History

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 […]

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The Art of Anna Karin, Truchas, New Mexico

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 […]

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Core Meanings of the Ugly Duckling

Many of you responded to last week’s excerpts from Clarissa Pinkola Estes’s version of The Ugly Duckling as told in her book, Women Who Run With the Wolves. I thought I would offer additional excerpts today, this time providing Estes’s analysis of the fairy tale: “The problem of the exiled one is primeval. Many fairy […]

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The Art of Becoming

Like the painter, Beatrice Mandelman, the famous Taos Modernist, coming to New Mexico dramatically changed my art. Prior to arriving here my career had been spent as a realist painter, primarily figurative and genre work. When I first visited Truchas, I was in something of a transition with my work. I was abstracting the backgrounds […]