10AM - 5PM
STOP 1 on the Pecos Studio Tour map
# 3 Railroad Ln., Rowe
Roark Griffin
Paintings • Southwest Landscapes Birds of Prey
Phone: 505-699-7967
# 3 Railroad Ln.
P.O. Box 151
Rowe NM 87562
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 4 on the Pecos Studio Tour map
16 Cicuye Road, Pecos
Humming Wolf Studio
web: https://pagunderson.com
on Facebook @PhyllisAGunderson
Phyllis enjoyed painting as a young child and was encouraged by her parents to pursue her passion. A self directed continuous learner , she continued to paint throughout high school and college, Phyllis put down her brushes and put aside her art for several decades while she concentrated on building her career and raising her children. Phyllis’s varied career led her from law enforcement to the aerospace industry and high tech. While working as an Executive Coach in England, she also took on the role of Chief Information Officer. Once she arrived back in the U.S., Phyllis decided to return full time to her first love: painting and translating the beauty of what is to a new beauty.
Today, as Owner of Humming Wolf Studio, Phyllis specializes in two-dimensional oil paintings that, are representational of nature reflecting the spirit of the land and animals. She exhibits in art shows in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas and Washington.
Phyllis is an active member of the 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) and Oil Painters of America.
16x20" oil on canvas
12x9” Oil on Linen
10x8”, Oil on Linen
11x14”,
Oil on Linen
22 x 28”, oil on canvas
11x14”
Oil on linen panel, 10x8”
14x18”, framed
Currently on Loan to Shanley Houser Center for the Arts, 224 North Travis St., Granbury Texas
Oil on gallery wrap canvas, 20x10”
22x28”
Giclee available
Trisha Keefe is new to the tour this year
Glorieta, NM 87535
STOP on the Pecos Studio Tour map
32 Camino de Pinones, Glorieta, New Mexico
I have always been interested in the great landscape painters of the southwest. Especially the painters from the Hudson River School of painting. I especially enjoy the works of Frederick Church, Albert Bierstadt John Frederick Kensett and Sanford Gifford. So, I decided to try my hand at it starting around 15 years ago.
I try to paint as close as possible to what my eyes and mind see.
There is much to learn. Many times (most times really) a painting does not work out as we would wish it to. But I’m sure most successful artists always derive lessons from these setbacks.
So, it is my goal as an artist to make fewer and fewer of these mistakes as time passes, knowing full well that they will never really end.
The ultimate goal in art ( and life in general) is to honestly learn from our mistakes.
Stop 5
60 Cicuye Road, Pecos
Wood Mosaics
hello@samroscoe.studio
505-603-5684
https://samroscoe.studio
Born and raised in forests of the Inland Northwest, Sam Roscoe's work highlights the natural world of the Western United States. Known for bold, graphically inspired designs, Sam's work incorporates various species of wood, copper, and oil based stain. From sketch to finished piece, his focus on line, shape, and color are the main tenets of his artistic output.
STOP 5 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 5 on the Pecos Studio Tour map
60 Cicuye Road, Pecos
gouache on rice paper, pastel
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.