Mountainair: Susan Probert is a new comer to New Mexico and to Cibola Arts Gallery in Mountainair, New Mexico. Susan has always dreamed of becoming an artist. After raising four children and spending 38 yrs in the field of social work she was excited to finally have the time to explore her dream. She began by experimenting with different mediums to find her best fit.
A life long nature lover, bird watcher and gardener, lead her to her passion when she stumbled on gourd art two years ago. Susan sees gourds as natures canvas and already a work of art in themselves. “I try to enhance them, not to make them look like something else,” she explains. She uses transparent stains so that the natural markings of each gourd can be seen. She embellishes them with natural elements, leaves, cones, seed pods and dried flowers. The result is a natural beauty of nature’s abundance and a transformation of dried objects.
When Susan moved to New Mexico she was immediately charmed by another gift of nature, by pieces of dried cholla. As her cholla collection grew she was inspired to fashion pieces into crosses which she also embellished with gifts from mother nature. Each cross has one or more pieces of turquoise tucked somewhere on it. “It just seems significant to honor the significance of turquoise in this beautiful place,” she says. The name of Susan’s business is Earth to Art and that describes her work with elegance.
<img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/cibola_sanddunes.jpg align=right hspace=5 border=1>Deb Vetterman is a returning artist to Cibola Arts in Mountainair. Deb, like many artists, started making art when she was a small child. Her heart has always resonated with the beauty of the natural world and the unique beauty of rocks. Rock formations hold a special fascination for her. That love of form has lead her to explore the landscape and recreate what she calls “rockscapes.”
When Deb moved to New Mexico in 1976 she found a source of endless inspiration in the landscape around her; from the Bisti Badlands to Tent Rocks to the Canyonlands and the four corner area, or south to the lava flows, “The rockscape of New Mexico are amazing.”
Deb works mostly in pencil and color pencil to create striking and sensuous drawings. She documents what we often miss in the sensuous aspects of nature. Her goal is for the eye to see what the hand might feel. Her undulating and muted drawings do indeed make you what to reach out and touch them. She is now experimenting with painting.
Deb attended the Maryland Institute Collage of Art and then finished her BFA at UNM in the 80’s. She went on to get her Masters in Art Therapy. She has shown in various gallerys in new Mexico and has done a few art shows. She currently shows at Cibola Arts in her hometown of Mountainair.
For more information, call 505-847-0324 or www.cibolaarts.com (http://www.cibolaarts.com/)
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Mountainair: Susan Probert is a new comer to New Mexico and to Cibola Arts Gallery in Mountainair, New Mexico. Susan has always dreamed of becoming an artist. After raising four children and spending 38 yrs in the field of social work she was excited to finally have the time to explore her dream. She began by experimenting with different mediums to find her best fit.
A life long nature lover, bird watcher and gardener, lead her to her passion when she stumbled on gourd art two years ago. Susan sees gourds as natures canvas and already a work of art in themselves. “I try to enhance them, not to make them look like something else,” she explains. She uses transparent stains so that the natural markings of each gourd can be seen. She embellishes them with natural elements, leaves, cones, seed pods and dried flowers. The result is a natural beauty of nature’s abundance and a transformation of dried objects.
When Susan moved to New Mexico she was immediately charmed by another gift of nature, by pieces of dried cholla. As her cholla collection grew she was inspired to fashion pieces into crosses which she also embellished with gifts from mother nature. Each cross has one or more pieces of turquoise tucked somewhere on it. “It just seems significant to honor the significance of turquoise in this beautiful place,” she says. The name of Susan’s business is Earth to Art and that describes her work with elegance.
<img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/cibola_sanddunes.jpg align=right hspace=5 border=1>Deb Vetterman is a returning artist to Cibola Arts in Mountainair. Deb, like many artists, started making art when she was a small child. Her heart has always resonated with the beauty of the natural world and the unique beauty of rocks. Rock formations hold a special fascination for her. That love of form has lead her to explore the landscape and recreate what she calls “rockscapes.”
When Deb moved to New Mexico in 1976 she found a source of endless inspiration in the landscape around her; from the Bisti Badlands to Tent Rocks to the Canyonlands and the four corner area, or south to the lava flows, “The rockscape of New Mexico are amazing.”
Deb works mostly in pencil and color pencil to create striking and sensuous drawings. She documents what we often miss in the sensuous aspects of nature. Her goal is for the eye to see what the hand might feel. Her undulating and muted drawings do indeed make you what to reach out and touch them. She is now experimenting with painting.
Deb attended the Maryland Institute Collage of Art and then finished her BFA at UNM in the 80’s. She went on to get her Masters in Art Therapy. She has shown in various gallerys in new Mexico and has done a few art shows. She currently shows at Cibola Arts in her hometown of Mountainair.
For more information, call 505-847-0324 or www.cibolaarts.com (http://www.cibolaarts.com/)