“Rio Grande Gorge” is a painting inspired by a trip my husband and I
took one summer to the magnificent northern New Mexico area.
In this painting I tried to capture the essence of nature’s own
architecture in the repetition of the beautiful strata of sedimentary
rocks. The river surges far below cutting through the ancient earth.
Petroglyphs dot the ruins. A beautiful New Mexico morning sky
stains the earth in the shades of terra cotta, raspberry and gold.
As an artist I wanted to create a painting which would show nature’s
magnificence. The “Land of Enchantment” (New Mexico) has a
spirit all it’s own…I wished to portray the emotion I felt as I
gazed over the rim into the deep canyon below…and then up to the
horizon, filled with sunshine, seemingly going on forever, hopefully
providing the sensation that the viewer could almost touch the sky.
