We are so lucky to have had some rain nearly daily since the beginning of July. Well really, this is normal. However, the last three years have been anything but normal. We have hopes the drought has lifted.
Meanwhile the tour goes on and we welcome you, one and all, to the High Road during the last two weekends of September. Please come to my studio...see what's new, what's old..what's yet to come.
Above is a new painting you will see in my studio, "Alice's Circle of Enchantment". I made this painting in memory of my friend Alice Linsday Price. When I was a painting fellow at the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos in 2007, I was fortunate to live next door to Alice. Every morning, long about 6AM, Alice could be found outside her casita chatting with the Magpies. Well I loved them already, those magpies, but after spending three months living next to Alice I loved them even more.
Those of you who have spent time in Taos know that there is a drive known as the "Enchanted Circle" which leads you through the mountain passes: Taos to Questa, to Red River, to Eagle's Nest, to Angel Fire, through Taos Canyon back to Taos. Between the datura flower, a desert medicine of enchantment, to the enchanted circle drive, to speaking with the magpies, Alice knows what I mean by this painting, although she has already passed on to other worlds.
The enchanted circle has unbelievable scenery. I prefer the High Road. This roadway is more intimate; more filled with history and culture, filled with artists of today and days gone by. We welcome you September 21 and 22 and again September 28, 29. Please allow time to get to Chamisal.....it's off the beaten path.
