Donna J Caulton ----- Paintings and Prints: "On the Trail of the Ghost Pony"

Monday, July 9, 2012

"On the Trail of the Ghost Pony"

As promised, here is another Ghost Pony piece. It's a night time image and is called, "On the Trail of the Ghost Pony" These collages are fun and challenging to make. I use a combination of painting mediums and printmaking mediums. This piece combines solar etching, acrylic paint, and gouache on paper, on board.
You will see this and other similar pieces in my studio during tour in September. The new tour brochure will be ready in a couple of weeks.

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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