SOUTHWEST

America’s Great Southwest

Eastern artists of all stripes—painters, photographers, writers—discovered America’s great Southwest in the early Twentieth Century and flocked to places like Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, to explore this exotic land of enchantment. It was the landscape, light and colors, and ancient cultures that fed their artistic muse.

It’s what keep artists flocking and settling here today. Beyond the red rocky terrain of northern New Mexico and the White Sands to the south, are the mountains of Arizona, its Grand Canyon, the arches and badlands of Utah, the shimmering heat of Death Valley, the ancient cliff houses of Mesa Verde. 

All of that has attracted me to the Southwest for more than 30 years and is what brought me to settle here in Santa Fe several years ago. Coming from Midwest corn and soybean country, the Land of Enchantment and Santa Fe, the artistic “City Different,” have been a feast for my mind’s eye. 

This gallery represents images I have made throughout the Southwest. Enjoy!