Donna J Caulton ----- Paintings and Prints: Plan for HIGH ROAD NEW MEXICO STUDIO TOUR, 2010

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Plan for HIGH ROAD NEW MEXICO STUDIO TOUR, 2010

If you have never driven up (or down) the High Road to Taos for fall studio tour, you are missing one of the greatest art adventures. During the last two weekends each September, artists open their homes and studios to visitors from everywhere. The road winds through the tiny villages, centuries old, part of the original Spanish Land Grants. The artists are painters, jewelers, woodcarvers, retablo painters, printmakers, potters and weavers, both traditional and contemporary.
Although the 2009 tour season has ended, plan your vacation for next fall around those last 2 weeks in September so you won't miss next year's. Bookmark the website so you can stay abreast of what's coming up: http://highroadnewmexico.com. And don't forget to visit my studio, on Plaza Rd. Chamisal, where you also may tour my century old adobe home. In addition to High Road Tour, next year my studio will be on tour the first two weekends in September with TAO, the Taos Artist Organization, for our third annual tour.

(The above image, "After the Flood" is of an acrylic painting on canvas, 14"x28". Below is a photograph of the Santuario de Chimayo.)

My Bio

Unlike many artists I didn't begin consistently making images until my mid 30's. The two dimensional surface fascinated me. I started with water colors, a natural choice of medium in the watery Pacific Northwest. While living in Seattle I developed a language of image-making that has stayed with me since.

When I moved to the mountains of northern New Mexico in 2007, my world and my artwork opened up in ways I never imagined. Here is a land of high mountain air, abundant sun, striking visual landscape and strong cultural influences. Immediately my colors became bold. My surrounding environment, under a brilliant sky, surrounded by untold natural beauty, sustains plants and animals and the dance of their inter-relationships that inform the works that I now create.

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