Gentz, Renée Brainard

Gentz, Renée Brainard

I am fascinated by the tonal value of color, rough versus smooth, structure versus chaos. Some of my work emphasizes one of these different approaches while some integrates these ideas. My designs are never predetermined, they develop as I go. I work in a deliberate...
vanWestrienen, Dana

vanWestrienen, Dana

Pencil on paper, paint and brush are the tools I use to make either an inner emotional landscape or to express the emotional way an actual landscape makes me feel.  The tension between these two real places prompts me to create, to imagine, to complete the vision I...
Kuhn, Betsy

Kuhn, Betsy

From my earliest memories, it was the image, rather than the words or even sensations, that captured and directed my energy to create. I explore color and value often with an interest in landscape. I find life drawing class is the best training for whatever I’m...
Bothne, Janet

Bothne, Janet

Janet Bothne has been ‘weaving’ color in her vibrant works for over 2 decades. Her focus on the paint itself being the subject matter has taken this former realist into a new practice that balances gut vs. brain, chaos vs. organization and a zen-like approach which...
Gourlay, Diana

Gourlay, Diana

I grew up in New Jersey.  Rain, lush green, tall trees – it truly is the Garden State.  Arriving in New Mexico in 1996 was a bit of a culture shock.  Different land, different people, different moisture.   However, it has gotten into my bones and I cannot imagine...