Gallery With A Cause • Located in the New Mexico Cancer Center • Benefitting the NMCC Foundation
Please call gallery director Regina Held to arrange a private gallery tour, make a purchase, or ask any questions.
I began drawing lessons at age eleven, and oil painting when I was fourteen. I continued to engage in private lessons and classes through high school. I finished my formal education with degrees in Studio Art and Music Composition. I was employed as a Medical Graphics Artist in the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center before moving to New Mexico.
When I moved to Albuquerque in 1987, I focused on studio painting. The environment here is so great for artists! Nature is and has always been my take-off point. In the early 1990s, my paintings were more reliant on photography, executed in a tighter style. The skill set and subject matter of my work has changed, and continues to do so, especially through the practice of plein air painting! I have also been teaching art classes at the student and adult level. Recently I have concentrated on unifying my paintings through design and the elements of composition to enable the eye movement of the viewer. I also continue the discipline of watercolor painting and figure drawing & painting. Good drawing remains primary for me, along with reliance on the traditional techniques of the craft of picture making.
I view my work as expressively biographical in the choice of subjects and the presentation. The concept or idea in a work of art, though of paramount importance, remains second to the personal point of view and voice of the artist. Precedence provides a framework for dialogue and interchange of ideas. I embrace all approaches to art making, but I identify with “naturalism” and its classical underpinnings most strongly.
