The holy reservoir of all that lays outside the doors of your dwellings. This work will for sure have a horizon line but not always implied.
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Ghost Ranch Morning – oil – 30X40
$2975
Ghost Ranch, NM is a beautiful area of northern New Mexico – a ranch once owned by Georgia O’Keefe. This is one of my favorite areas to paint anywhere I’ve ever visited. the soft pastel pinks, greens, blue, and violets lend themselves to create a great harmony with the high desert foliage.
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Prickly Pear Blossoms – oil – 54X48
$6975
This painting is from Saguaro National Park West outside of Tucson, AZ. Spring time brings so many blossoms to the wildly varied prickly pear cactus plant. So many varieties and colors!
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Along Route 66 – oil – 24X36
$2475
This painting is of the Oatman, AZ area that sits right on Route 66 in the Black Mountains. It’s a precarious winding drive past the gold mines and burros that line the road as you drive through probably one of the most challenging engineering road projects of the early 20th century.
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Saguaro Dawn and Dusk – oil – 54X72
diptych
$9975
This diptych attempts to marry two distinct natal light sources – the sun and moon and show how the light affects how we see the color of the landscape. It creates two very different worlds and we perceive these places in very different ways.
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O’Keefe’s Land – oil – 28X56
$3975
Georgia O’Keefe was a prominent American artist in the early 20th century. Her semi-abstract New York and later New Mexico compositions were heavily influential in the art world and carry a connection to the culture and land that little other art has done. O’Keefe bought a ranch near Abiquiu, NM named Ghost Ranch and when she passed away the ranch continued on and remains one of the most beautiful areas in New Mexico. This mountain Cerro Perdernal was one she painted numerous times as viewed from the ranch t is one of the most prominent landscape features in the area.
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Vermillion Cliffs 2 – oil – 20X28
$2295
The Vermillion Cliffs are a long rock formation that stretches almost 92 miles and lies at the base of the Paria Plateau along the Utah border. It’s notable red rock sandstone formations glow at sunrise and sundown. Very little else can show that immenseness of what a landscape is when you stand below these formations.
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Morning Glow – oil – 48X62
$7595
Bill Williams Wildlife Refuge is a unique place in the western Arizona. It acts as the confluence of the Bill Williams and Colorado rivers. It is a riparian area in a very desolate dry Mojave desert. The unique cottonwood and willow trees grow here along with occasional saguaros and chollas. When the area gets extremely rare heavy summer AND winter rainy seasons it will burst with flowers – poppies, lupine, daisies, etc. It is an unexpected delight to drive into the area expecting hard hot rocks and dried up foliage and seeing this!
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Prickly Pear Blossoms I – oil – 26X46
$3295
Boyce Thompson Arboretum is an amazing place to visit to see all of the desert plants that exists out in the desert of Arizona. It’s a real delight to come in the spring and see the amazing prickly pear blossoms!
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Bill Williams Spring – oil – 24X48
$3295
Spring in the Bill Williams area can create some brand new color opportunities that don’t exist at any other time of the year. There is a small area of red rock formations in this area and when juxtaposed with the green of the spring plants and the lavender of the lupine creates an amazing color composition. This painting was done plein air (outdoor painting) and thus only an impression was captured – but a unique one at that!
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Red Rock Rainbow – Oil – 28X48
$3595
During the monsoon season in Arizona, summer time can bring amazingly strong downpours bringing the scorching temperatures down 20 degrees. Rainbows are a common sight but not like this! This rainbow sat below the red rock formations of Sedona while a second rainbow hung way above in the sky framing this amazing scene.
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Spider Rock – oil – 36X68
$6975
Spider rock is a landscape feature within the Canyon de Chelly National Monument. This rock formation has unique significance to the Navajo people. This area is definitely worth visiting and taking a Navajo guide to explore the top and bottom of the canyon. I’ve found so much inspiration as an artist from this area one can sense the spiritual presence and sacred nature of these red rocks.
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Buffalo Dusk – oil – 28X68
$4975
Buffalo are the real giants of the deserts and plains – their gentle nature talks generations of existence in the harsh climates they exist in. Sacred to the Native Americans and hunted almost out of existence by the European settlers, these big behemoths carry a story of the history of the lands they reside in.
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Landscape Arch Morning – oil – 20X56
$3595
Landscape Arch is a beautiful trek through Arches National Park. It is one of the most fragile arches in the park – in 1991 a large slab broke off resulting in the limited area this arch can be viewed.