october 5 and 6, 2024
10AM - 5PM
10AM - 5PM
STOP 8 on the Pecos Studio Tour map
24 Camino Real, Glorieta, NM 87535
Jewelry
STOP 1 on the Pecos Studio Tour map
# 3 Railroad Ln., Rowe NM 87562
P.O. Box 151
Phone: 505-699-7967
Paintings • Southwest Landscapes Birds of Prey
Roark L. Griffin was born in 1950 in Artesia, New Mexico. Soon thereafter, his family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico. He attended high school in Cuba, New Mexico. "My love of nature and art started at a very young age. Growing up in New Mexico, my time out of school was spent walking in the countryside and observing wildlife. A strong interest in birds of prey began when I was about fourteen, while living in Cuba, New Mexico. I became involved in the sport of falconry and was active in the sport until I was twenty-seven. During my university years in Portales, New Mexico, I worked with the biology department and the natural history museum. After graduating in 1974 with a bachelor of arts degree in painting and sculpture, I worked with the Department on Game and Fish in the Endangered Species Program."
Roark now lives and creates art in Rowe, New Mexico. His residence is a house that was built in 1906, and part of his time is spent with renovations. His studio is next door, also an old building with a great deal of history.
STOP 5 on the Pecos Studio Tour map
Humming Wolf Studio
on Facebook @PhyllisAGunderson
My work seeks to take you on the journey to love and aprreciate the seen and the often unseen in our world. Outdoor painting has completely changed the way I see and understand the world. It had forced me to essentially start over and appreciate anew this beautiful world. What better place than in the singular beauty that is New Mexico. Yes, I’m hooked. You just may spot me and my painting buddies in our big hats, off the road, interpreting our beautiful country. I exhibit in art shows in Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas .
In addition to painting full time, I am active in the following organizations: National Association of Pen Women, Inc., National Association of Professional Women, National Association of Independent Artists, Pecos Studio tour Chair, Plein Air Painters of New Mexico (past President), Outdoor Painters Society (Texas), Plein Air Artists of Colorado, and Oil Painters of America.
12x9” Oil on Linen
On loan
On Loan
22 x 28”, oil on canvas
10x8”, Oil on Linen
11x14”,
Oil on Linen
14x18”, framed
11x14”
Giclee available
Oil on linen panel, 10x8”
12x12" oil on canvas
Sold,
Oil on canvas, 12 x 36"
STOP 2 on the Pecos Studio Tour map
970-300-8210
Robin loves texture....transforming vintage furniture...designing fine jewelry ....creating water features that create gardens.... and has an obsession with photography.
RGustlin@icloud.com
STOP 4 on the Pecos Studio Tour map
13 B Cur Trail, Glorieta, NM 87535
As a person who has always found delight in making beauty out of anything I find, I have developed a particular pleasure in creating art out of rusted metals, broken car glass, worn plywood, and other items commonly discarded. In my artistic endeavors, I feel as if I am turning something broken or forgotten, into something beautiful and useful again, giving it new life.
I also find much pleasure in illustrating things that are not necessarily seen by everyone, especially in nature. Lifeforms, faces, scenes, etc. To me, this reveals the beautiful world of elements not commonly perceived. I also enjoy incorporating a bit of magic and prayer into many of my pieces. I rely on my photography and encaustic tools to achieve this.
STOP 7 on the Pecos Studio Tour map
32 Camino de Pinones, Glorieta, New Mexico
I have always been interested in the great landscape painters of the southwest. Especially the painters from the Hudson River School of painting. I especially enjoy the works of Frederick Church, Albert Bierstadt John Frederick Kensett and Sanford Gifford. So, I decided to try my hand at it starting around 15 years ago.
I try to paint as close as possible to what my eyes and mind see.
There is much to learn. Many times (most times really) a painting does not work out as we would wish it to. But I’m sure most successful artists always derive lessons from these setbacks.
So, it is my goal as an artist to make fewer and fewer of these mistakes as time passes, knowing full well that they will never really end.
The ultimate goal in art ( and life in general) is to honestly learn from our mistakes.
STOP 3 on the Pecos Studio Tour map
Address: 13A. Cur Trail, Glorieta, NM 87535, United States
Painting. Sculpture. Drawing
Over the past couple of years I’ve felt undeniably compelled to revisit the figurative forms that I had worked with 25 plus years ago.
Currently I find this to be a direct way to grapple with my perception of the world.
The psychological landscape has always intrigued me and has featured in my work in myriad ways for decades appearing either as figuration and / or as what I consider loosely as abstraction. More like “Atomically Figurative”.
I feel this latest work more closely reflects the current season of global madness.
My work has gone through many permutations and iterations. From distorted figurative images to abstract-ish forms which are always based in the figure.
To me it makes no difference whether it is seen as abstract or figurative. What is important to me is that I am working. My art has always been grounded in considering psychology, the mind, the ego, the influence of substances and meditation for close to 40 years. Ultimately what I make needs to be made.
The catalyst for this work was from my youth, family experiences and the Roman Catholic Church. To me it all seemed incomprehensible and perfectly medieval.
Like many of my generation I also had limited experimentation in college with psychedelic substances.
The marks, forms and energetic strokes that make up my work are ways of representing objects in mind, of thoughts, feelings and emotions. These are not specific but more like lightly held indicators and loose depictions.
I work across several mediums; painting, mixed media sculpture and drawing. Each aspect informs the others. I see it as conversation between the three mediums.
My intention is to cause mystery and introspection.
7-5/8” x 5-7/8”,
acrylic on wood panel
7-1/2” x 6-1/4”,
acrylic/ink/wood
7-5/8” x 6”, acrylic/ink/wood
8-3/4” x 6-3/4”,
acrylic/ink/wood
7” x 5-1/2”,
acrylic/ink/wood
7-1/2” x 6”,
acrylic/ink/wood
6-1/2” x 6”,
acrylic/ink/wood
Acrylic/Canvas,
40” x 30” x1.5
Acrylic/Canvas,
28” x 24” x1.5
Acrylic/Canvas,
36” x 36” x1.5
7-5/8” x 5-7/8”,
acrylic on wood panel
Acrylic/ Wood/Steel,
17.5” x 14” x 11”
Acrylic and acrylic interference paint on wood panel.,
60” x 48”
Acrylic paint on wood panel, 48” x 36”
Acrylic/ Vinyl/ Wood/Steel, 28” x 13” 13"
Acrylic/ Wood/ Steel Filings,
56” x 12.5” x 12.5”
Elissa Shopoff
STOP 9 on the Pecos Studio Tour map
Is new to the tour and focuses her artistic energy on fiber arts and painting.
96 Los Altos De Cicuye, Pecos NM. Cross street is Hwy 50 in Pecos.
instagram @ Elissa Shopoff
website weepingaspenstudio.com
STOP 6 on the Pecos Studio Tour map
Using wood, beadwork and metals, I create sculpture that reminds us that life is spiritual regardless of which spirits we follow.
Stories of the Northwest Tribes, Lakota, and the Pueblo’s are visually reflected as simply carvings or adorned images.
STOP 6 on the Pecos Studio Tour map
gouache on rice paper, pastel, ceramics
Art has always been at the center of my life. Working in gouache on rice paper, and in pastels on paper or board, I became familiar with graceful lines, form and space. Mainly through self-taught studies, art became my profession, my expression and my joy.
Hand-built tiles and scupltural reliefs create an arry of design and decorating possibilities. They can be installed either inside or outside, as they are resistant to wet or dry conditions. We love how they transform an outside wall or a fence into an art gallery. They can be a collection of squares or random shapes arranged to form a free-flowing design. Large or small, they capture your eye on a surface our brain has been conditioned to ignore. Besides, clay is basically mud... and what artist could resist playing in the mud!
