High Road Artist

Working Artist on the High Road to Taos

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Remembering Family

In keeping with Wisdom Wednesdays written by me, I have one last to add. This was written in 1978 when I was living on Vashon Island in Puget Sound. My great-great-grandparents were the first of my family to settle there. I was fortunate to spend a lot of my childhood on the beach with my […]

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Opening at Ghost Pony Gallery, Truchas, NM

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 […]

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New Gallery’s Opening Day!

Today we celebrated. We got to the gallery, the three of us, Anna, Bill and I, and set all the lights in all the rooms. And just as Bill was finishing up some wiring, before we’d had a chance to put away the tools and the bulbs, before our OPEN sign was even up, our […]

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Weaving the Threads Together

The physical materials that make up these micaceous pieces include, of course, the wood and canvas of my substrate, the plasters I use to create texture. And then the grasses from this land on which I live… … and the precious mica, this “gift of the earth, gift of those who have the privilege of […]

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Next I Look to the Earth

I walk on my land across the earth to the shady reaches of the land grant, banked by its wild arroyo, deep and mysterious, until recently unexplored by me. As I wander out there, alone but for my dogs, my eyes invariably fall from the expanse of sky, the sweep of mountains, to the rock […]