New Mexico Sky Musing, Number 7 ~ 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. **
I love that dark passage in the upper left of this painting, and how it contrasts so sharply against the white highlighted crests of the cloud.
And that big, round robust cloud! It just seems to radiate energy! I love the roundness of it, like it's a big glowing ball of sky energy.
I love, too, the creamy green "underline" below the cloud — an accidental and surprising color, yet it works!
And I enjoy the suggestion of mesas fading to the distant sky; their outline reminds me of the landscape between Raton and Cimarron, New Mexico, on the east side of Hwy 64.
Once again words — descriptive bits of text —from my New Mexico journals — are ghosted in the background, only this time passages of text are cropped and turned so that they read every-which way.
{ Read more about my abstract landscape paintings below }
This painting is painted on sturdy panel and wired on the back for immediate display; the edges/sides of the painting have been painted a flat grey rendering a frame optional.
This is an original, one-of-a-kind painting by Dawn Chandler.
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DETAILS
TITLE: New Mexico Sky Musing, Number 7
MEDIUM: Mixed media on panel
SIZE: 8" x 8" x .75"
FRAME: None; unframed
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Here is a bit more about my semi-abstract landscape paintings
"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 semi-abstract 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. Sometimes even fragments of language—excerpts from my journals—emerge through paint layers 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.