Painting: Aware

Everyday I realize I have been blessed to make what I love my work and my work my life.

The amazing adventures that lie deep in a piece of smooth paper or a vast empty canvas, clay freshly wedged, ready for the possibilities, keep me constantly challenged. I am forever grateful for what these simple materials have taught about the world and myself.

When I offer these journeys to life; when they are fired, framed, "done"... and I walk away, my hope is that others may understand even a glimpse of that voyage, and make it their own.

Thank you for visiting. I will try to have new images and events posted as they happen, so keep checking in. If you have any questions or comments, I am open to dialogue.

Rose

Opening January 8, 2009

Three acclaimed mother-daughter teams from Santa Clara Pueblo will showcase their artistry at the Heard Museum beginning in January 2009. Nora and Eliza Naranjo-Morse, Roxanne Swentzell and her daughter Rose Simpson, and Jody Folwell and daughters Susan and Polly Rose – all part of the larger extended Naranjo family – will exhibit pottery, clay sculpture and painting in clay.

Visit heard.org for the latest info.

On display through January 24, 2010.

KNME.org's third installment (Sept. 29) of the Artisode series, KNME filmmaker Kelly Kowalski profiles New Mexican artist Rose Bean Simpson.

I Shall Call Her Freedom

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
710 Camino Lejo
Santa Fe, NM 87505
505-476-1250
www.indianartsandculture.org

May 11, 2008 - January 4, 2009