High Desert Song, I ~ Original contemporary abstract New Mexico landscape painting by artist Dawn Chandler
** This painting is currently proudly displayed here in Santa Fe at Bishop's Lodge of Auberge Resorts. It IS available for purchase here through my Etsy shop. **
"High Desert Song, I" is a luscious abstract dream of summertime clouds in the high desert of New Mexico, with each etched vertical line designating a different passage of memory or awareness.
There's something magical about the skies of New Mexico. Something holy to our clouds. Perhaps because for days and days they can be rare — especially in late spring, during fire season.
But eventually — especially come midsummer — clouds begin to return to our skies, and when they do, they bring such color and ntriguing shape to our skies. And, if we're lucky, they bring rain... blessed, holy rain....
It is one of my "textual landscapes" where I merge passages of traditional landscape with semi-abstraction and words.
{Read more about my "textual landscapes" below.}
"High Desert Song, I" is painted on a stretched canvas; the edges/sides of the painting are 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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TITLE: High Desert Song, I
MEDIUM: Oil and mixed media on panel
SIZE: 24" x 24" x 1.5"
FRAME: None; unframed
SHIPPING: USPS or UPS; insured; signature required.
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To view more paintings by Santa Fe artist Dawn Chandler, contact her via her online gallery at taosdawn.com or dawnchandler.com
Keep tabs on Dawn Chandler's studio practice and musings via her studio blog at taosdawn.com/blog
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Here is a bit more about Dawn Chandler's "textual 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
All copyright and reproduction rights are retained by the artist.
Artwork may not be reproduced by any process.