Cloud Walker, III ~ Original Contemporary Abstract Western Landscape Painting by Santa Fe 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. **
If you are on my mailing list for "real mail," then you will recognize this painting from my 2020 annual Springtime card.
I chose this painting for the card because I find the painting so cheerful in its color.
Indeed, I find those purples and blues and greens rather luscious. They evoke memories of happy spring and summer days out here in New Mexico.
This scene is not of a particular place — and yet.... and yet it reminds me of so many places here in Northern New Mexico.... I am reminded of so many beloved places... All I can tell you is the time of day, which is surely late afternoon. For that's when the cool colors of clouds build up, and warm afternoon or evening sunlight slants in and lights up a ridgeline or mesad
This painting is on canvas; 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: Cloud Walker, III
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.