225 Canyon Rd. #2 Santa Fe, NM 87501
505.795.2295
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GRETEL
UNDERWOOD
Weaving
Originally from the LA area, Gretel started working with hand weaving after moving to Santa Fe 40 years ago. She learned about natural plant dyes and techniques, which lead to learning to weave, combining influences from the surrounding western landscape and traditional weaving styles of Peru, Guatemala, Bolivia and Mexico. Gretel’s business has grown and evolved from jackets and accessories to a popular line of home interior pieces and wall art. Using primarily high quality American cotton chenille, every hand woven piece is unique, with an unmatched attention to detail of colors and patterns. “I love to watch something grow before my eyes as I weave,” says Gretel, “It satisfies a special part of my soul to see every detail come alive in my designs.” When Gretel is not at her loom or designing, she is spending time with her other passion, horseback riding, another way to connect with the traditions and beauty of the West.
JACKIE
REISS
Painting
Growing up in Vermont, I developed an attachment to the outdoors which has continued and influenced my artwork. This bond really took shape when I studied both Art and Environmental Studies in college and found myself gravitating towards landscapes and nature scenes in my work.
I moved to Santa Fe last year and I find painting the landscapes here to be challenging and very intriguing. The ever changing shifts in light, reflections, clouds, heavy rain, or snow, push me to capture that fleeting moment of inimitable beauty.
I love to create paintings that include aspects of nature and reflect upon my time spent outdoors. My style involves combining bold color with fine details to encapsulate these elements of shadows cast by trees, mountain ridges, and patterns in the sky.
KEVIN
PATRICK
Assemblage + Painting
Kevin Patrick uses techniques gleaned from 30 years of design and building experience to create abstract works that are filled with expression and exploration. After earning his BA in Art from Cal State University in the 1980s, he followed many other professional paths but always found ways to work in creative fields. In 2011, he relocated to New Mexico with his wife to work full time on art. Kevin enjoys the abstract style because it frees him to get to the source of the idea. Most of his work is in mixed media but is dominated by acrylic paints. "In 2020 I started creating assemblages that contain recycled art, found objects, and other items that stretch
back my entire life. I have been gathering objects since I
was very young and this gave me a way to use them to create pieces using old images to create new ones...I get lost in the search, the hunt to find and put the images all together and make it work.”
JENNIFER
GLENN
Jewelry
Jennifer Glenn took her first metalsmithing class over twenty years ago and fell in love with the traditional craft. After earning a BFA in Jewelry and Metals from Oklahoma State, she further honed her skills studying in North Carolina, Maine, and Colorado before settling in Santa Fe. Each piece of jewelry is designed and made by Jennifer in her Santa Fe studio. Skill, care, and attention to detail go into every piece, transforming raw materials into wearable art.
JEANINE
ALLEN
Painting
Jeanine is a master pastel and oil artist with numerous awards and publications in the Southwest. A Texas native and world traveler, she now calls Santa Fe home. "The intersection of abstraction and realism is where I find myself working in painting landscapes. To discover the abstract in reality and see realism in abstract color and composition is a balance; I don't want to abandon either one but try to pursue an equality between the two. Ultimately, for me, it's a life-long quest for the beauty of a moment in nature, exploring and using a wide-range of painting mediums."
CAROLE
BELLIVEAU
Painting
Carole Belliveau was raised just outside NYC and attended Parsons School of Design. She later taught herself sculpture in order to craft one of a kind and limited edition dolls, going on to win many International Doll of the Year Awards and designing for some of the largest toy companies. Carole moved West in 1997 and was excited by the unlimited vistas, incandescent color and a landscape full of drama and light. She was inspired to paint again, and has since won many awards, most notably the Grand Prize Winner of the Cadmium Award at TRAC 2019, and several FASO BoldBrush Awards. She is a member of The Portrait Society of America, Plein Air Painters of NM, Oil Painters of America, and American Impressionist Society.
RAVELLE
FLORES
Jewlery
Hello! My name is Ravelle and I'm an enamelist from Southern New Mexico. I taught myself how to enamel by reading book and watching YouTube videos! I use a kiln that heats up to 1600 degrees using sheet copper as my base. I counter enamel each piece for additional strength. The front side is kiln fired with 3 to 7 layers of glass depending on the look I'm trying to accomplish. Talk about a hot way to express art! I love the bright colors and shapes and the unique way glass melts. I also make my sterling silver ear wires. Jewelry is such a wonderful expression of the soul that I can't resist making my own. Wearing a piece that makes you feel good is a great way to start the day and a great way to make one feel special and beautiful. I hope you enjoy what I've crated with love, sweat, and may hours of practice and patience.
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ERIKA ECKERSTRAND
Designs of Erika
Erika is a Swedish-born Santa Fe artist who marries form and function in all that she creates.
She transforms hardy materials originally made to withstand the elements into sleek, contemporary pieces that are as practical as they are stylish. Something viewed as purely functional by many, morphs into sculpture with Erika’s vision and nod to Scandinavian design. Her creations have been featured in galleries and exhibits in both the United States and Sweden. These designs in woven and clear vinyl are practical as they are attractive. They are stain, mildew, fade, and mold resistant. Some are waterproof. Careful attention to detail results in light weight articles that hold their shape. Erika's goal as an artist is to “create pieces that both enhance and beautify the world around us.”
SHEILA
MILES
Painting
“I want to make the ordinary extraordinary and depict beauty in the unnoticed and represent the ambience of a place and time that has a special, memorable, or familiar iconic presence. Many of the places I paint are rural scenes that include abandoned buildings that have a long history. I try to capture the beauty and a sense of time and place, focusing on light and shadow and the abstract qualities in the puzzling shapes that warp over a surface. I use the colors and tones, along with bright contrasting whites and shadows created by the hot sun. I was raised in Indiana but lived in Massachusetts, New York City, Europe, then Montana and Santa Fe. With 40 plus years as a dedicated painter I am still looking for complex and hidden compositions in the seemingly simplest of places.” Sheila Miles has exhibited in over 300 gallery and museum exhibitions, in 150 public collections, and is an art consultant, mentor, and teacher.
WYATT
WELKER
Painting
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A native of Los Angeles who has lived in New Mexico on and off for decades, Wyatt Welker now makes his home in Santa Fe, where he paints portraits, mostly in oil, of both animals and humans. A fascination with the way individuality and personality seem to reside in feature and expression, which as a former cartoonist he's always cultivated, makes the face the most interesting subject he can imagine. Striving to preserve yet anatomize the fleeting glance, he tries to bring an inner life marked by both Dutch painting and Mad Magazine into a synthesis.
RAQUEL
UNDERWOOD
Painting
Santa Fe artist working primarily in oils. For the past ten years Raquel's paintings have focused New Mexico churches, Southwest architectural features, and high-desert plant life. These have lead to her current series and original interest and passion: indoor still-lifes–be they traditional florals and fruit, or more quirky subjects. She grew up primarily in Oregon, Texas and Italy and spent several years in North Africa and France as a teen. Travel has always been a passion, but living in Northern New Mexico has awakened in her the fascination with light and shadows, color and form. She hopes this passion shows in the many subjects she paints.
DON KONNELL
& LISA ADLER
Sculpture
We love what we do. We love the animals and the natural environments that inspire our artworks. We love connecting with the communities where our sculptures are located. And we love bringing something of beauty into the world that resonates with the viewer. As a company, our mission is to activate public space while bringing nature into human consciousness.
LISA MARIE
KINDLEY
Painting
Inspired by the frescoes and fairy tales of old Europe, Lisa began creating her painted canvas dreamscapes in 2010. Both romantic and ethereal in feeling, they evolved naturally from her prior 10 years of experience painting murals and decorative finishes for homes. Working mostly large-scale, her paintings become a "glimpse of serenity" that invites the viewer to wander into a timeless world. In her airy Northern New Mexico mountain studio, she lets the images grow naturally, using tinted gesso, acrylic, pastel, glazes, stencils she makes from pressed leaves and flowers, her nature sketches, or historical designs, to build layers of organic pattern and texture. Flowers, birds, and animals emerge, colors shift between faded and fresh, as she explores her landscape that is partly real, partly imaginary.
DONNA
NELSON BARNHILL
Painting
Born in Western New York state, I spent my childhood growing up in the dusty plains of Southeast New Mexico where I gained an early appreciation of the unique and magical beauty of the desert light. I have longed to live in northern New Mexico since I was young so that I could be surrounded and immersed in artistic creativity. Life had other plans as my career took me to various locales in Texas for the next twenty eight years and I have since returned to New Mexico full time. I was honored to be invited to be part of the inaugural Artist In Residence Pilot Program at Ghost Ranch. I work in all mediums and focus on painting both in my studio and plein air.
My work focuses on landscapes, structures and abstract forms. I particularly love to paint old traditional structures when I venture out to paint. I love the sun and the high desert and the special ambience that only New Mexico can offer.
ALICE
BAILEY
Jewelry
Alice Bailey’s sojourn through design began at age 15 and has encompassed fashion, costuming, interior design, hand-painted silk scarves, jewelry and mosaics for over 30 years. Though she has been creating mosaics for over 10 years, her newest passion is one-of-a-kind mosaic sculpture. Reflective to her jewelry designs, Alice implements gems, minerals, fossils and natural stones to embody elegance and motion; clearly revealing her passion for color and texture. The beauty of her sculptures offers the individual dance of interpretation for each viewer. The impact of Alice’s mosaic sculptures is enchanting and leaves one wanting to see more!
KATHLEEN
O'NEILL
Recycled Art Sculpture
I was studying stone lithography at San Jose State in the 80s when I got into a car accident which changed my life: through physical and emotional therapy, I learned how to dedicate myself to my art. I ended up coming back to New Mexico and taking traditional Hispanic tinwork. After I spent my last dollar on tin, I started picking up old lard tin cans at the dumps around me, and learned how to open them up and clean them to use as art materials. That started my recycled art journey, first exhibiting at recycled art shows and now shops and galleries. That was 40 years ago and I’ve been doing it since. Recycled materials inspire me: they tell me what they want to be.
KIM
AMATI
Mixed Media
Born and raised in Chicago, Kim now resides in New Mexico (and loves it). She graduated from North Park University with a B.A. in Art and went on to work for Chicago area publishers as a graphic artist. She eventually began concentrating on fine art and for the last 15 years has shown her work in local galleries and art fairs. Kim is known for her use of vintage buttons, costume jewelry, collaged paper and found objects. Her highly textured, colorful mixed media pieces are sometimes whimsical, sometimes thought provoking and always original. “I sold vintage and antique items for several years and during that time I accumulated many bits and pieces of jewelry, glass, ephemera, buttons etc. that I started incorporating into my paintings. I thoroughly enjoyed highlighting these items in new and interesting ways. While I do still love painting “traditionally” in acrylic, I can’t stop making these fun pieces!”
OROPOPO
Jewelry
OROPOPO is a husband and wife duo who make jewelry, bags and objects in their Albuquerque studio drawing from the iconography of the American Southwest.
Karole's professional background is in architecture and structural engineering. The Oropopo name is from her birthplace on the coast of Venezuela. Grady is a native of New Mexico, a writer, and literary editor; he has specialized in desert literature and its aesthetics. Together, they refine a narrative that associates site and culture with contemporary technology.
"We have our own relationship to the land and culture and those indefinable qualities that are New Mexico and the Southwest. If we share anything with the creative work done in this region for thousands of years it would be the tradition of artists trying to make beautiful things that convey a sense of the time and place we inhabit."
GRIFFITH
EVANS
Jewlery
This small batch, limited production jewelry collection is crafted in reclaimed orchard wood from the northern New Mexico village of Cuartelez. My friend and I harvest declining walnut and fruit trees on his ancestral property there. After finishing a B.S. in Industrial Design, I realized that my true passion lay in handwork. My preference for the plane over the pixel led me to complete a formal training program in Fine Woodworking and Professional Craft. I embrace certain elements of the 19th century Arts & Crafts stylistic tradition—simple lines, handsome proportions, restrained decoration, and native materials—while remaining unburdened by the utopian, anti-industrial philosophy of the movement. I incorporate the commercial furniture production techniques of steam bending and bent lamination.
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JAIRA
STEWART
Glass Sculpture
It was an exchange of shaping; the rugged landscape of Santa Fe, NM, would sculpt Jaira Stewart from her early years. Later, she would materialize her love for the land—from heart to hand—into sculpting glass. Her works echo the New Mexico landscape—from the micro-world of lichen to the grandeur of sunsets over mesas; and its symphony of stories—the historical echo of stolen land and lives, to the contemporary dust-covered arroyos that weave the intricate tapestry of the high desert. Using concentrated color powders and glass fragments, she hand-sculpts molten glass, breathing enchantment into works that evoke life and death and the beautiful ballet between. There’s a story to be told, and Jaira does her best telling through each work she breathes to life.
WENDY
BOOMHOWER
Mixed Media
Wendy is a professional graphic designer and artist working across the United States and Great Britain. Rooted in the rich historical heritage of Northumberland, England, her distinctive style blends symbolism with decorative artistry to create thought-provoking pieces. Wendy infuses her work with layers of meaning, inviting viewers to pause and reflect. Her art incorporates multi-cultural symbols, colors, and patterns to explore spiritual and humanitarian themes. Passionate about fostering unity among faiths and cultures, she celebrates our shared human experience while encouraging a shift in mindset toward healing and understanding. Through her work, Wendy seeks to inspire deeper contemplation and a more connected world.
Wendy’s talent and dedication have earned her a number of awards, and her work has been juried into prestigious exhibitions, showcasing her unique artistic vision on an international stage. In 2018, she moved to New Mexico, where she currently resides, drawing inspiration from the region’s rich cultural tapestry and deep spiritual traditions.