Remembering Santa Fe Rain ~ Original contemporary abstract New Mexico landscape painting by artist Dawn Chandler
Per the title, an abstracted memory of a beautiful and dramatic summer rainstorm.
Here in the New Mexico high desert, when the clouds start to build in the afternoon, the sky turns all shades of purple grey. The effect is awesomely beautiful.
Indeed, there's nothing quite like it. The sky — and the storms — out here is a big part of why I've made New Mexico my home.
This is one of my Abstract Landscapes wherein I often merge passages of traditional landscape with semi-abstraction and often words.
{Read more about my Abstract landscapes below.}
This painting is painted on sturdy panel; the edges/sides of the painting have been painted a flat grey, rendering a frame unnecessary/optional."
This is an original, one-of-a-kind painting by Dawn Chandler.
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DETAILS
TITLE: Remembering Santa Fe Rain
MEDIUM: Oil and mixed media on panel
SIZE: 6" x 6" x .75"
FRAME: None; unframed
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Here is a bit more about my Abstract Landscapes:
"Rarely when we recall a journey across the land, is our memory in sharp focus. Rather, our memories become a sequence of impressions—a collage of the vistas, colors, textures and shapes that we encountered along our journey’s path.
"My paintings are a celebration of journeys across the land. By merging traditional landscape imagery with fragments of text and abstract elements, my “textual landscapes” suggest land and place in a way that invites the viewer to linger. More than ‘nature studies’ or simple abstractions of the landscape, for me these paintings are deeper expressions of not only journeys in the outdoors, but the passage of time and transience of life. Paint spatters and swirls suggest the movements of birds, often great flocks of them. Vertical lines divide the space into passageways and chapters of time, thought and experience. Fragments of language—most recently reflections on life and the outdoors from my own journals—emerge in a sort of ghost poetry, further beckoning the the viewer to linger and consider the journeys evoked within each painting."
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© Dawn Chandler
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Artwork may not be reproduced by any process.