Charcoal aplenty with Rachel BrownleeArtist Rachel Brownlee recently completed a large charcoal work, Path to Plenty. The artist elaborates: “The piece features my husband’s grandfather’s saddle. He purchased it used in 1929 as part of preparation for starting his own ranch...It is just a symbol, but a strong one, of someone facing a nearly impossible challenge and setting out for it, one step, one mile at a time. He rode this saddle his entire life and when he died he owned several ranches, including the family ranch that he had dreamed of owning from when he was 5 years old. I live on one of those ranches now. The image features my chinks and my boots.”
For more information, visit www.rachelbrownlee.com.
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Modern design with classic subjects
Manitou Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has announced that the gallery will represent painter Hannah Harper, whose stylized approach to wildlife has already won over numerous collectors. The Oklahoma-raised painter was originally a student of John and Terri Kelly Moyers before pursuing her own paintings. “My current work is rooted in outdoor field study and plein air painting combined with researching symbiotic relationships between wildlife and analyzing how elements of the natural world resemble elements of human nature,” Harper says.
See more of her work at www.legacygallery.com.
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Stephen C. Datz looks up in his newest painting
Now available at Medicine Man Gallery in Tucson, Arizona, is Exalted Light, a 12-by-10-inch painting by Stephen C. Datz. Composed of Datz’s short and choppy brushstrokes, Exalted Light exemplifies the artists’ contemporary style of painting the land and its forms. Datz was on the January 2021 cover of Western Art Collector, and since then has continuously impressed collectors with his unique perspectives of the desert and its landmarks, both grand and mundane. His work has a way of creating drama between the land masses and the light, which interact greatly within his exciting brushwork.
See more of Datz’s work at Medicine Man Gallery, and also at www.medicinemangallery.com.
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Blue Rain has new work from Martin Blundell
Moody and contemporary landscapes from painter Martin Blundell are now on view at Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, including this new painting, Blue Morning. Blundell studied painting in Utah, before exploring the larger Southwest region and finding his place within the magnificent scenery of the West. “My paintings...explore the unique landforms of the high desert, mountain valleys and rural places [of the western United States and Canada],” Blundell says. “This interest in the landscape is a chance to share the dramatic beauty of the land and sky, and to remember the feelings and emotion that accompany our interaction with it.”
See more of Blundell’s work at Blue Rain Gallery, or by visiting www.blueraingallery.com. —
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