Sally Bartos prInts lovely and fanciful scenes of her rural surroundings. "My studio is located in the beautiful East Mountain area of New Mexico. My recent work is inspired by my joy in my family, my animals, and the wonderful area that I live in." Sally's paintings often include horses, goats, dogs, birds and chickens as well as quaint little houses or classic adobe architecture all under vibrantly-colored skies. Her work feels as if it has appeared straight out of a fairytale and the mood is always tranquil and happy. Sally's palette is based on the iconic warm color so typical of the Southwest.
https://sallybartos.comSusan has been an artist for most of her life. After receiving a degree in Fine Art in Illinois, she worked in advertising as a graphic artist. She has also worked in galleries and founded her own business called Daystar Studio which features her paintings, drawings and commissioned pet portraits. Susan loves to vary her work, drawing her inspiration from the interconnectedness of life, interpreting those feelings through her pastels.
https://thedaystarstudio.comZana Burns is a highly talented textile artist who has been weaving for about 37 years. She met a tapestry weaver in 1980 who inspired her to learn to weave. Six years later, Zana reconnected with the weaver in Taos and began her weaving adventures. Zana's weavings are unique, one-of-a-kind pieces, (except placemats), that demonstrate her creative use of color and design.
Kim is the general manager and founder of the Artist License gallery. Before relocating to New Mexico, Kim lived in San Diego and earned her living as an electrician. She had always been interest in art and she planned to take the time to explore her artistic talents upon retirement, but even before then, Kim tried her hand at painting and she loved it. In all her work Kim often uses animal and bird themes and her paintings are done on various surfaces—from canvas to denim jackets to buffalo gourds. She even paints and decoraes cow and animal skulls. Every piece that Kim creates in unique, which she states, is part of her challenge to herself. Kim's words, "Passion for art has me waking in the middle of the night with thoughts of my next art project."
Evie has always been an admirer of hand-made, unique artisan jewelry. After retiring from her career as a psychologist, she took a class in wire-wrapping and created her first earrings. Designing jewelry has since become her passion. Using semi-precious stones and a variety of other elements, often collected on her travels, she crafts one-of-a-kind pieces to bring joy to the wearer.
https://www.etsy.com/Shop/MoonRabbitOriginalsGina first began making decorative items by hand when she learned to create macrame wall hangings many years ago. She never really marketed the pieces, just shared them with family and friends. Recently, Gina learned that a leather bracelet which she had make almost 50 years ago for a family member, was still in the family and being worn by a young relative. That inspired gina to make more bracelet, but she soon realized that she actually needed to do something with them as opposed to simply accumulating them! Once she was discovered by the Artistic License Gallery her creative, skillfully crafted items have become best sellers.
Shyama has created art all of her life. She talks about her work: "I am a painter and a scratchboard artist. I use texturing techniques to create depth and layers in my work, employing all types of mediums and tools, from heavy gesso, crackle mediums, and pallet knives to steel wool, sharp needle tools and ink. My art blends figurative and abstract elements, and reflect our spiritual and emotional connection to the environment. Surface textures and cracking techniques help illustrate nature's fragility, and give each piece a unique, organic and contemporary style."
https://shyamahelin.comGarden Shed Girl, Julie Hill is an award winning graphic designer turned fine artist. With a passion for gardening and a love of all things in nature, she now uses her talent to create artwork that will surely add a little "happy" to your home with her birdhouse art poles, birdhouses and painted images on wood. Her love of flowers also inspired her to create artwork for a line of flour sack kitchen towels, each bursting with blossoms and packaged with a seed packet of the flowers shown on the towel.
https://gardenshedgirl.comHeidi Hoffer’s charcoal portrait artwork is visual storytelling at its finest. When viewers talk about Heidi’s figurative and portrait work, they often refer to feelings and historic or fantasy worlds. The say, “I can see his Viking plans” or “I like the gilded age story in this one”. Inspired by client’s personalities drawn in portrait sittings, Victorian daguerrotypes, and the late 19thn century romantics, she specializes in drawing moving stories. She is well-versed in storytelling through her scenographic work in theatre. She is a veteran scenographer, having designed the environment, lighting and costumes for well over 250 productions world-wide. Heidi is a 2x Fulbright Scholar with work done in South Africa and Pakistan. Documenting cultural methods of storytelling and communicating through artwork from the Pretoria Opera through Pakistani children’s fairy tales, Heidi is mindful of the meaning of a figurative and portrait artwork. She specializes in charcoal artwork infused with her choice of paper, texture, color and finish. She leverages the power of the understated colors in charcoal artwork to maximize the story. She has a master’s degree in Theater Design and Technology from Northern Illinois University and an MFA in Scenography from Northwestern University. She is a member of the Portrait Society of America and a Signature Member of the National Association of Women Artists. She has international awards and exhibitions at such prestigious halls as the Salmagundi Club in Manhattan.
https://hofferartanddesign.comEssay writing has been my main means of expression through most of my life, with dabbling in the visual art world. In 2012, I began painting in watercolor, which allowed me to see life from a different perspective—as a creative interpretation of reality. In 2021, I began experimenting with linoleum cuts. I am mostly a self-trained artist. In my work, I attempt to capture an emotion. I strive to embrace my subject through use of position, consistent colors, and through the arrangement of sentient beings, or a landscape, or any image in nature. Watercolor gives me pleasure in knowing I am working with an earth element. Some say that it’s very difficult, but I feel that each brush stroke, each swirl or straight line breathes life into the spirit of my work. I love the paint flowing; the moments when I’m not sure if it’s going to go as I intended or when it takes its own course and gives me something even more striking than my preconceived idea. To me, the flow of watercolor is akin to the stream of life. To me, lino cuts employ physical communication with the brain, creating an architectural thought, whereas with watercolor it’s cognitive. Lino cuts are steadfast—once the cut is made there’s no turning back. Either way, art should tell a story. Ultimately, I hope viewers experience a particular moment in time through my work.
https://jacintaHartKehoe.orgI grew up in New Orleans with a fascination for people’s faces, masks, and personal adornment. As a child, I made mud pies, and as a teenager, I developed an interest in dreams and symbols with their multiple layers of richness and textures. My first clay class at LSU in 1970 focused on pottery, but I soon switched to ceramic sculpture and showed in numerous exhibits including “The Anonymous Image” at The University of Chicago, “Extraordinary Vehicles” at The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, “California Crafts” at The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, and The Long Beach Art Museum in California. My ceramic sculpture has been featured in Craft Report Magazine, Ceramic Review in London, England, and pictured in Ceramics Monthly Magazine. I began making jewelry out of necessity after a break-in when all my jewelry was stolen. I had clay, no earrings, and C’est Levy was born. My porcelain jewelry has sold coast to coast in galleries, boutiques, and museum shops—from San Francisco to New York, Chicago to New Orleans—and now Santa Fe, where I am pleased to be a member of Artistic License Gallery. I’m a former member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, Foothills Craft Guild, Terra Madre: Women in Clay, Handwork Craft Cooperative in Ithaca, and Yucca Art Gallery in Albuquerque.
https://cestlevy.comPi has an MFA from Goddard College in Interdisciplinary Art, wher she studied the connection between math, art, and Jungian Psychology. From a distance, her artwork looks like a painting but get up close, and you'll start to see the shapes and textures. She cuts up tiny pieces of paper from recycled magazines. "Initially, the process looks like a chaotic mess, much like the number Pi—an endless irrational number going on forever. Each piece has a place, and each piece belongs. I transform the mess into cohesive visions of hope, healing and renewal."
https://pilunaart.comGail took up photography as a way to ease into retirement. Her photography centers on people and scenes of the Southwest. She has spent decades traveling to off-the-beaten path locations and unique events in the Four Corners states. While she seeks the beautiful landscapes for which the area is famous, she is also always on the lookout for the interesting and the quirky.
https://gailmacquestenphotography.zenfolio.com/I find inspiration from patterns and forms found in nature. I am a keen collector of the natural world. I enjoy filling vintage printer trays with objects such as shells, fossils, feathers, plants and insects. The shapes, patterns, textures found in nature will find their way into both my jewelry and printmaking. In my Jewelry making, I am drawn to both traditional and contemporary techniques in jewelry making. I love to experiment and push the boundaries of the material. I fabricate pieces in recycled silver and gold and form metal shapes by hand. I am very conscious of the current state of our world, and I don’t find myself shifting course too much, but I appreciate the beauty of the precious materials and natural stones. Every jewelry piece is considered one of a kind and is made by hand. With my Printmaking, lately, I’ve been inspired by 19th century illustrations of insects. I like to fill the whole space with sections of the insect showing their other worldliness. My main starting point is using dry point, an etching technique to intricately sketch detail. Once printed, I often continue to layer with additional ink, collage, and metal leaf. The work varies from representational to abstract and I am continuously moving between the two, expressing the sensual pleasure and ephemeral beauty of the natural world. Born outside of Belfast, Northern Ireland, I grew up experiencing both the majestic beauty and social challenges of a country under strife. I attended the University of Ulster receiving a BA with honors in Fine and Applied Art. After spending most of my life in N. Ireland, I decided to work and travel abroad. I taught art to young people in New York State. I worked as crew on a barge on the Seine River, in France. In 1999, I took an internship with Pecos National Historical Park in New Mexico. In 2001, I completed an MA in Gallery Studies from the University of Essex, in England. I have always had a keen interest in working with museum collections and presently work part time at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA), while always finding time for my art. I am lucky to have set up a home and studio in Eldorado with my husband Dominic. So drawn to my roots in Northern Ireland, I will always return and I try to share my time between both places.
http://www.carlapennie.com/Linda designs and creates hand-knitted wraps and ponchos in soft, warm and beautiful yarns that create lovely blended hues often inspired by the colors of New Mexico and the Southwest. She first began to knit as a hobby when she was a young girl. Over the years she has made sweaters and other articles of clothing, but following a pattern eventually felt tedious, so Linda decided to design the ponchos and wraps that have become her signature pieces.
I am an artist at heart. My gift is how I see. Photography has been my creative foundation and outlet for decades. I photograph in an abstract way, featuring shapes, colors, rust, shadows and lines. The meaning of the image is often not revealed until I see it on the computer screen, making the shooting process one of intuition rather than intent. More recently I have been doing mixed-media, consisting of collage as well as assemblage. These pieces often start with a photo then I build from there in a number of ways, such as painting, layering paper, adding words, stamping, and objects.
Karen makes colorful and attractive high-quality textiles for the home and for personal use. Her skills as a seamstress are top-notch and the fabrics she cooses range from brightly-colored themed patterns to uniquely New Mexican and Southwestern designs. When closely examining her work, you'll quickly notice how well-made each piece is—from pot holders to totes, wine bags to kitchen boas. She even creates unique wall hangings and cross-body shoulder bags. Karen has pointed out that her totes and wine bags do double duty—they hold a gift and they are a gift themselves. Karen's skill and creative work takes functional textiles to another level.
https://karensfiberwhimsy.comI have worked with other media, but my true affinity is with watercolor. I love its spontaneity, its freedom of flow, the surprises, and the challenge to master or at least control the independence of its gentle yet willful nature. I am particularly attracted to landscapes. Color and light are the elements that most strike my sensuous core, and transparent watercolor seems to best capture for me the vibrancy and translucence of sky, earth, water, and all that grows and travels therein. I may know where I want to go, but how to get there is always an adventure. I have exhibited widely in group and solo gallery shows as well as in public spaces in the Santa Fe area. I participated regularly in the annual Santa Fe Studio Tour. I was an Artist in Residence at the Inn and Spa at the Lorettto of Santa Fe. My painting ‘Fallen But Not Bowed” was accepted for the national juried Watercolor USA 2016 exhibit at the art museum of Springfield, Missouri. Two of my paintings were selected for Albuquerque’s hotel Andalusia Q3 Exhibit 2023.
"I consider myself a ceramic craftswoman. I accept the limitation that clay inherently presents and I happily strive for beauty and function with clay's limitations. I am continuously inspired to create with my hands functional objects that are used in daily living. I believe that unique and individualized pieces put us in touch with our personal relationships, enhance the experience of social gatherings and add the additional element of creativity to the living space."
https://npatmontpottery.comRob and Teresa create fascinating and very clever art pieces from salvaged recyclables that they gather from auctions, estate sales and garage sales. They disassemble, clean and re-imagine each part of their newly found treasures to create unique and sometimes functional items like clocks, lamps and assemblages that are absolutely one-of-a-kind and fantastic conversation pieces! "We naturally fell in love with the Steampunk alternate history of the 'past that never was'...Lampsntime was created to be an outlet for our quirky ideas."
https://www.lampsntime.comCarol Tyroler is a ceramic artist whose creative practice complements her global career in international economic development. When she's not working with communities around the world to advance inclusive growth and climate resilience, she can be found in the studio, immersed in the tactile rhythm of clay. Carol explores both handbuilding and wheel-thrown techniques, with a current focus on crafting functional pottery that blends utility with quiet beauty. Her work reflects a deep appreciation.
Jessica is a long-time Santa Fe artist and gallery owner. She is now transitioning to a more peaceful life of "just making art". Some may call it retirement, but she doesn't understand that word, and is working more than ever. Currently she is showing her work exclusively at the Artistic License Gallery. "It's close to home, and I love the friendships I've made". She works in many mediums but her true loves are watercolor and kiln-fired glass.
http://jessicawesolek.com
