PleinAir Artists New Mexico Juried Exhibiton - Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos

You are invited to enjoy the best of the Taos Fall season starting Tonight:
Friday, October 4th, 5- 7pm is the opening PARTY for the Annual Plein Air Painters New Mexico Juried Exhibition - at the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos.
"Afternoon in the Tall Grass", 12 x 16", is my plein air painting juried into this year's show.
The Millicent is a venerable, and beautiful Taos venue and this show will highlight plein air work of painters from all over the country who come to New Mexico for inspiration.
So if you are on the lookout for great things to do this weekend in the Southwest- this is an ART must see.

If you are thinking about making a weekend of it: check out Peggy Immel's Show celebrating Wilder Nightingale's 22 years in Taos;  Saturday, Oct 5th 5-7pm at Wilder Nightingale Fine Art on Kit Carson in Taos.
And on Sunday, Oct 6th,  Nita Harper and Patricia Rose Ford will be featured at the the Purple Sage Galeria in Old Town Albuquerque
 1- 6pm.
Peggy and Nita are friends and fellow plein air painters; Peggy is from Taos and Nita from California.

High Desert Painters in Taos

That yellow sign there is absolutely no lie. It always gives me pause at this point, faced with a road that just drops off and the Rio Grande River Gorge straight ahead.
This is the road from the west side of the gorge down to Pilar and the Taos River Road: steep, winding and a lot of signs that warn about falling rocks- you know the ones that show some helpless car threatened with a boulder dropping out of the sky.
This was last Friday's painting adventure as I headed to the Village of Pilar to join up with the High Desert Painters for a day of plein air painting.









We come from all over the country to paint together in Taos, in May: Janis Loverin from Ruidoso, New Mexico, Jana Van Wyk from Cary, North Carolina, and Judy Howells and Nita Harper from Pacific Palisades in California. Sadly, we were missing 2 of our members: Ann Templeton from Texas and Nelson Hubley from Nova Scotia.
It was a week of some harsh weather changes with high winds and rain - not ideal - but Friday was perfect. When we eventually found each other on the hillside above Pilar we enjoyed views in almost every direction.
I drove down from Colorado for the day and consider it a small miracle that we met at all, there being no cell service in this part of the country - but we look for cars, or painting umbrellas and amazingly we connected. Judy Howells and Janis Loverin looked to the view over Pilar and Jana Van Wyk set her sights on the river. The piece on my unmanned easel on the right is of the view to the west and down the canyon.
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