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

web: https://pagunderson.com

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. 

pagunderson.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 6 on the Pecos Studio Tour map

60 Cicuye Road, Pecos

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

60 Cicuye Road, Pecos

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!