Artists of the Month & New Artists

Artists of the Month: July 2022

Frank Peacock

Frank Peacock, the native son of a New Mexico pioneer family, has lived in communities as diverse as San Francisco, Mexico City, and Amish Pennsylvania. As a National Landscape Painting Competition finalist, his paintings, pastels, and etchings are in private collections worldwide. Known for dramatic use of color and texture, and the mystery of the ever-changing landscape, he now dedicates his skills to the majesty, grace and hope intrinsic to Nature’s praise forms. Through the uplifting forms of trees, mountains and sky; or the inspirational light of nature defused through the elements, his pastels and paintings are a reflection of God’s love.

Rhoda Winters

Drawing in class helped Rhoda Winters remember what the teachers said, and the Organ Mountains reside in most of her earliest childhood memories. She explores the wonder of the moment, the beauty of life and the structure of the natural world. She begins by painting or sketching, on location, to catch the real heights, proportions and perspective. She also takes photographs to capture the details. Then, she rediscovers the joy and wonder of that place and moment in time.

New Gallery Artist

Jean Wilkey

Jean’s art starts with color, with a momentary glance at something previously unseen, with a feeling. She paints worlds populated with plants, animals, people, and objects, that blur the line between indoor and outdoor, between still life and landscape. Her compositions incorporate personal symbolism that becomes a metaphor for our relationship to the animal kingdom, to nature and to our spiritual and physical selves. Wilkey’s art has appeared in Southwest Art and Exploring TOSCA magazines and is in private collections in the United States and abroad. She holds an MFA in painting and has taught at New Mexico State University, the University of El Paso, and Doña Ana Community College. She currently teaches painting in her Las Cruces studio.

In addition, the gallery artists offer art in many media, which include:
original paintings, photography, jewelry, ceramics, fabric collage,
stained glass and gourds, as well as affordable note cards and prints.
For further information please call 575-522-2933.