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April 22, 2025 by Jeane George Weigel 6 Comments

The Dark Horse Series

There was also a small herd of horses pastured on the four acres in front of my house. They were rather skittish at first but, slowly, we got to know each other. Then, in the middle of what could only be called a blizzard, a little one was born. I saw her with her mama just after the sun came up. This wasn’t good.

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April 1, 2025 by Jeane George Weigel 5 Comments

Living a Life of Abstraction

So I make my paintings, influenced by the rich tradition of those who went before me, works made possible by the sacrifices required of revolution, by great artists breaking new ground. I think those artists live on, not only in their own works they left behind, but in the works of those of us who call ourselves abstractionists… the ground they broke is still bearing fruit.

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March 23, 2025 by Jeane George Weigel 4 Comments

Trusting the Process of Life

I wish for all of us the pursuit of our dreams and the blessing of parents who grant them; to BE the parents who grant them, and the friends who support them. May we all live within our greatest possibilities and trust the process of life.

Filed Under: A Meaningful Life Tagged With: a meaningful life, an artful life, an examined life, art, artful living, artist, being an artist, inspiration, inspirational

March 17, 2025 by Jeane George Weigel 2 Comments

Day Trip

The trip was filled with ghosts and they or the land, or both, gripped my soul on this sunny New Mexico day when Kim and I journeyed back in time and experienced the conceived utopia of another era and a sense of the lives lived within it, in old houses and on ancient land.

Filed Under: A Meaningful Life, Beautiful New Mexico, Southwest History, Southwest Living Tagged With: a meaningful life, an artful life, art, artful living, artist, beautiful New Mexico, being an artist, D. H. Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence in Taos, inspiration, simple living, simplifying, writer

September 11, 2017 by Jeane George Weigel 1 Comment

Monhegan

But standing right there on Monhegan it felt as though I experienced something of a quiet shift to that old personal journey: one in which I remembered to take pleasure, to be soft, to seek and find beauty, to laugh more, to create.

Filed Under: A Meaningful Life Tagged With: a life well lived, a meaningful life, a soulful life, an artful life, an examined life, art, artful living, artist, artistic process, inspiration, inspirational, living consciously, living simply, living well, living your truth, simple pleasures, small pleasures, wisdom

June 12, 2016 by Jeane George Weigel 2 Comments

We Thought We Knew

Although Mabel was a wealthy New York heiress born in 1879, we do share this: We both came to New Mexico with rather cavalier attitudes about it.

Filed Under: Beautiful New Mexico, Southwest History, Southwest Living Tagged With: a soulful life, an artful life, art, artful living, being an artist, history, Mabel Dodge Luhan, writer

January 13, 2015 by Jeane George Weigel 4 Comments

Making Art Because…

And my heart silently shifted back. Back to one who wants to believe again—even if that belief is somewhat fragile—in the making of marks on paper or canvas, just to be making marks.

Filed Under: A Meaningful Life Tagged With: an artful life, art, artful living, artist, artistic process, being an artist, inspiration, living your truth, wisdom

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About High Road Artist IMG 9461 150x150I am Jeane George Weigel, a working artist living in the mountains of northern New Mexico, and I do not think you and I are so different.

Every single one of us longs to know what we ache for, to “follow our bliss” as Joseph Campbell famously put it. You may find yours as an artist, a writer, or a teacher. But I am convinced we all yearn to live what is in our hearts. Some of us spend a lifetime discovering what that is. Some never find it.

This blog is about a journey of self-discovery, yours and mine. I write about the experience of living an artist’s life and share musings and photos as this living experiment unfolds. It is my hope you’ll join in the conversation by writing to me about your lives and I dearly hope something, here, will inspire you.

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