Introducing
Gabe Abrums, Owner of Chimayo Trading Del Norte. About a month ago I
received an e.mail that Gabe would like to work with me to sell my
paintings, We have met and made a good connection. Both he and his
wife were raised in Chimayo, New Mexico - and, for the first time, I
have someone who truly knows the places in northern New Mexico where I
have lived and painted for fifty years. This is new - and over the next
few months, we will learn to work together. In the meantime all my
original paintings will be available through Collector's Gallery
on my website. Some can still be purchased through my studio and
others will go through the gallery. Gabe will also be showing some of
my paintings in Santa Fe this weekend.
OBJECTS OF ART/SANTA FE - A special show - El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia. Friday/Sunday - 11Am to 5PM.
In
Taos the gallery is located in the historic Ranchos de Taos Plaza,
right near the beautiful and iconic St. Francis Church. I love this old
church have prayed there many times. Somehow this all feels right. I
am very happy to have made this connection and hope that you will visit
the gallery or my website to keep up with my new work. A huge sigh of
relief that now I will have more time to paint - always a good thing!
Gabe Abrums
Chimayo Trading
Ranchos de Taos Plaza
(575) 758-0504
chimayotrading@msn.com
MY PROCESS--DOCUMENTING "WORKS IN PROGRESS"- NEW PAINTINGS AND PRINTS. -- INCLUDES PALETTE AND COLOR NOTES.
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Monday, July 24, 2017
AUTUMN PRAYERS - 28"X22 Work in Progress (Glazes)
Studio No. 1817 - AUTUMN PRAYERS (Placitas, New Mexico) - New Work in Progress (Glazes & Middle Tones) - Using my painting medium to apply the paint with soft brushes -- Sky: Cyan, Yellow Ochre, Permalba White. Trees: Chrome Oxide Green Opaque - outline Prussian Blue and burnt sienna. Fields: Yellow Ochre and Burnt Sienna. Adobe: Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow and White - shady areas: Yellow Ochre Deep. Foreground Grasses: Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna. Cadmium Yellow/Yellow Ochre.
Saturday, July 22, 2017
AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Las Trampas, New Mexico) - New 8"x10" Original Oil - Sold
Studio No. 1117 - AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Las Trampas, New Mexico) - New 8"x10" Original Oil on Italian Gessoed Panel, framed - Sold (Pasadena, Calif.)
MOONRISE OVER MIDDLE ROAD (Taos, New Mexico) New 8"x10" Original Oil
Studio No. 1117 - MOONRISE OVER MIDDLE ROAD (Taos, New Mexico) - New 8"x10" Original Oil on Italian Gessoed Panel, framed - available. Preview Painting.
Friday, July 21, 2017
AUTUMN PRAYERS - 28"x22" Work in Progress (Underpainting)
Studio No. 1817 - AUTUMN PRAYERS (Placitas, New Mexico) - 28"x22" Work in Progress (Underpainting) - Use bristle brush. Mix Grumbacher MG Underpainting White with Distilled Turpentine and color. Sketch in color with loose brushstrokes. Color Notes: Sky: Paynes Gray/Prussian Blue. Hills: Chrome Oxide Green Opaqe/Yellow Ochre. Fields - Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna. Chamisa: Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre. Rooftop: Cerulean Blue, Payne's Gray. Adobe: Burnt Sienna, Mars Orange, Yellow Ochre. Let dry for a few days.
Thursday, July 20, 2017
RIO HONDO - New 30"x24 Original Oil
Studio No. 1617 - RIO HONDO (Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico) - 30"x24" Original Oil on Belgian Linen, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner. Now available - Preview Painting.
Friday, June 16, 2017
MY NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE - 8"x16" Original Oil, Framed
MY NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE (Truchas, New Mexico) - 8"x16" Original Oil, framed (available - Preview Painting) -
Don Eusavio was my next door neighbor when I lived in Truchas and by observing him each day, he taught me how to live. He had lived in the same house for most of his life and there was a field between us where Henry Romero pastured his cows. I watched the old man from a distance - and if there was a secret to life he had found it - quite simply it was habit and routine. Each morning I would hear him tap-tapping on something in his shed, then he would carry in some wood from the big pile in his yard. The smoke from his chimney would rise and he would fix his lunch- Then he might put on his green baseeball cap, grab his orange bucket and pick apricots. His friend Rosita might come calling and they would go for a drive. He lived an uncomplicated life - on purpose. He was a happy man!
Don Eusavio was my next door neighbor when I lived in Truchas and by observing him each day, he taught me how to live. He had lived in the same house for most of his life and there was a field between us where Henry Romero pastured his cows. I watched the old man from a distance - and if there was a secret to life he had found it - quite simply it was habit and routine. Each morning I would hear him tap-tapping on something in his shed, then he would carry in some wood from the big pile in his yard. The smoke from his chimney would rise and he would fix his lunch- Then he might put on his green baseeball cap, grab his orange bucket and pick apricots. His friend Rosita might come calling and they would go for a drive. He lived an uncomplicated life - on purpose. He was a happy man!
Thursday, June 15, 2017
CAPILLA DE PLACITAS - 10"x10" Original Oil, framed
CAPILLA DE PLACITAS -10"x10" Original Oil on Canvas, framed (available - Preview painting) Still remember the first time I saw this little church years and years ago on one of my many trips back home to Truchas. Had my camera with me - parked near the gas statiion across the road and climbed part way up the water tower to get a better view. Have painted this place many times front and back - it is a talisman, a sacred place - many candles, many prayers.........
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO 1967 - THE ADVENTURE BEGINS....
THE ROAD HOME - 8"x16" Original Oil, framed - available - Preview Painting.
SEPTEMBER 1967 - We rented a small adobe house on Alegre St. from an old cowboy named Les Langley - across our backyard fence was Rosario Cemetary. The babies were still in diapers and crawling and the only heat was with floor furnaces - a big challenge. Still a Chicago girl, I was homesick, very lonely and did not know where to begin. Trying to be helpful, a neighbor gave me a New Mexico Magazine - started to read while the children were napping. There was a photo of a Taos Pueblo drummer - got out my paints and copied the photo. We needed money and the painting sold for $75 which was a fortune to me. The wheels started spinning - maybe, just maybe this place - Santa Fe, New Mexico - was where I belonged all along..... I was just born in Chicago by accident!
SEPTEMBER 1967 - We rented a small adobe house on Alegre St. from an old cowboy named Les Langley - across our backyard fence was Rosario Cemetary. The babies were still in diapers and crawling and the only heat was with floor furnaces - a big challenge. Still a Chicago girl, I was homesick, very lonely and did not know where to begin. Trying to be helpful, a neighbor gave me a New Mexico Magazine - started to read while the children were napping. There was a photo of a Taos Pueblo drummer - got out my paints and copied the photo. We needed money and the painting sold for $75 which was a fortune to me. The wheels started spinning - maybe, just maybe this place - Santa Fe, New Mexico - was where I belonged all along..... I was just born in Chicago by accident!
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
TUCUMCARI, NEW MEXICO -AND THE YEAR IS 1967.....
A HAPPY LITTLE CLOUD (Taos, New Mexico) - 36"x40 Original Oil on Belgian Linen- available - Preview Painting.........Sometime in the middle of September in 1967 husband Jack and I had watched the moving van leave our house on Riegel Rd. in Homewood, Ill. My son John was two and my twins, Mary and Sarah, were six months old. It was a long trip - the girls learned to eat spaghetti with their fingers in some little restaurant along the way. We crossed the border into New Mexico late in the afternoon - The sky above us was cloudless, but to our left was this huge, ominous blue and black monster bursting with thunder and lightning - I would later learn that the dark pouring from that cloud was called "Walking Rain" - The highway straight ahead to Santa Fe was sunny and clear! This was the beginning of my fifty year love affair with the people and landscape of New Mexico - what a adventure!
Monday, June 12, 2017
MY EASEL AWAITS!
Studio No. 0117 - PASSING STORM (Chimayo, New Mexico) - 8"x10" Original Oil on Italian Gessoed Panel, framed - now available - http://donnaclairart.com/el-llano/
It is so easy to procrastinate! My second husband, Ernie, would jokingly threaten to chain me to the easel! Took a little rest after our open studio exhibit "Three Artists of Taos" - I know that it is those quiet times - the days in between - when everything is silent that the next paintings come to me in pictures that float by - even when I am doing the dishes. The word "procrastination" is deceiving - when I am not painting is the time when I do all the heavy lifting - the ideas come if I am really quiet.
Am still settling into this little studio in Taos - setting a work schedule every day from 10AM to 3PM - routine and discipline are my words for today. This is truly a New Beginning....
It is so easy to procrastinate! My second husband, Ernie, would jokingly threaten to chain me to the easel! Took a little rest after our open studio exhibit "Three Artists of Taos" - I know that it is those quiet times - the days in between - when everything is silent that the next paintings come to me in pictures that float by - even when I am doing the dishes. The word "procrastination" is deceiving - when I am not painting is the time when I do all the heavy lifting - the ideas come if I am really quiet.
Am still settling into this little studio in Taos - setting a work schedule every day from 10AM to 3PM - routine and discipline are my words for today. This is truly a New Beginning....
Sunday, June 11, 2017
GRATEFUL.......
TAOS MOUNTAIN DREAMING (Taos, New Mexico - 8"x16" Original Oil, framed - now available - Preview Painting.
"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted that flame within us" - Albert Schweitzer....This morning - beautiful symphony by American composer named Picker - "Old and Lost Rivers". The bells from Our Lady of Guadalupe ringing for Sunday Mass - comforting. Heard a chorus of coyotes singing at 3AM! The old rooster on Peralta St. loudly letting his ladies know who is boss. Taos!!!
"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted that flame within us" - Albert Schweitzer....This morning - beautiful symphony by American composer named Picker - "Old and Lost Rivers". The bells from Our Lady of Guadalupe ringing for Sunday Mass - comforting. Heard a chorus of coyotes singing at 3AM! The old rooster on Peralta St. loudly letting his ladies know who is boss. Taos!!!
Saturday, June 10, 2017
HONEST CONVERSATION....
Studio No. 417 - TAOS SUMMER STORM - 24"x30" Original Oil on Belgian Linen, framed - Preview Painting. It took weeks of self-arguing to finally post the truth about losing my son. Looked back on my life for the last 2-1/2 years today - I sat in a big brown recliner for a year and cried - tried to keep up my time at the easel, but it was sporadic. Relied on help from my friends, One day I heard a voice in my head say "What if you live for another 20 Years?" and I knew the way I was "living" was killing me. All of a sudden the lights went back on and it was time to take a fearless inventory of places and things....there was no going back from that moment...I didn't know how, but I was being challenged to change everything!
Friday, June 09, 2017
UNA SENDA DESCONOCIDO - A PATH UNKNOWN
UNA SENDA DESCONOCIDO - A Path Unknown. Just waking up from a long nap and finally admitting to myself that I don't know what I don't know. Each Saturday morning when I was a little girl, there was a radio program called "Let's Pretend" - "Hi, I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe! That's my dog Tige, he lives in here, too!" Pretending to be my same old self is exhausting! This morning I read a paragraph titled "The Power of the Unknown" - the field of all possibilities.
Thursday, June 08, 2017
Losing John......12/25/2014
Santa Fe, New Mexico - In the early minutes of Christmas morning 2014, my beautiful 49 year old son, John, died. Parts of me died with him and life was forever changed. Deep grief is a dangerous adventure - a hostile and treacherous landscape with no visible escape route. Stumbling through most of 2015, I made mental Post-it notes to eat, sleep, paint, function - urgent care became routine. I was broken and I did not want to mend.
Wednesday, June 07, 2017
EACH DAY A NEW BEGINNING....
"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." Martin Buber
Friday, May 26, 2017
PLACITAS - 40"x30" Original Oil, Framed
CAPILLA DE PLACITAS (Placitas, New Mexico) - 40"x30" Original Oil,
framed. Now available for purchase at our 3 Artists of Taos Open Studio
exhibit - 27th, 28th and 29th from 12 to 5PM - Preview Studio Inventory.
Sunday, May 21, 2017
EL LLANO (El Llano, New Mexico) - NEW 8"x10" Original Oil
EL
LLANO (El Llano, New Mexico) - NEW 8"x10" Original Oil on Italian
Gessoed panel, framed - now available for purchase at my online
Collector's Gallery - Preview Painting.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
3 ARTISTS OF TAOS OPEN STUDIO EXHIBIT - MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
SURPRISE! Little
did I know when I landed here six months ago that I would meet up with
two very talented gentlemen artists as Doug Yeager and Seamus Berkeley!
Sometime in January or February we began to collaborate on an art event
- and here is the result. We have "planning" meetings often over
coffee and lots of (Lots!) of pie! Art Friends near and far are
invited! If you have any questions, give me a call at (575)758-1580. Looking forward to seeing many, many happy art lovers! Bienvenidos! Best regards, Donna
Taos, New Mexico — There is a mysterious quality to the atmosphere in northern New Mexico which is not easy to explain it must be experienced. Whether it is the wide open brilliant blue sky, the crisp bright light, the living mountains or the ancient history, artists arrive daily seeking their creative home. Some leave after a few months or years. Others choose to stay and become rooted and energized by all that inspires their art.Three well-recognized New Mexico artists have come together to offer their paintings and photography in an open studio exhibit 'Vistas del Norte' — views of the north. Each brings to their work a unique perspective influenced by life in Taos and the surrounding north country.You are invited to take part in their journey this Memorial Day weekend. Enjoy!
VISTAS DEL NORTE
Memorial Day Weekend - May 27, 28 and 29 from 12:00 to 5:00 PM - Taos, New Mexico
Featuring artwork of Donna Clair, Doug Yeager and Seamus Berkeley (Become acquainted with their work by visiting their individual websites - an armchair preview of ‘Vistas del Norte'!)Taos, New Mexico — There is a mysterious quality to the atmosphere in northern New Mexico which is not easy to explain it must be experienced. Whether it is the wide open brilliant blue sky, the crisp bright light, the living mountains or the ancient history, artists arrive daily seeking their creative home. Some leave after a few months or years. Others choose to stay and become rooted and energized by all that inspires their art.Three well-recognized New Mexico artists have come together to offer their paintings and photography in an open studio exhibit 'Vistas del Norte' — views of the north. Each brings to their work a unique perspective influenced by life in Taos and the surrounding north country.You are invited to take part in their journey this Memorial Day weekend. Enjoy!
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
DON JUAN'S PARADISE (Valdez, New Mexico) - Fine art prints, greeting cards...
DON JUAN'S PARADISE (Valdez, New Mexico) - Fine art prints framed or
unframed for home and office, greeting cards, posters and many other
great items now available at Fine Art America - Preview prints.
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