Santa Fe Textures

I just returned from the Studio Art Quilt Associates Conference in Santa Fe and I’m in a stupor. The word “amazing” is overused, but in this case, it applies. I am so overwhelmed by the sheer wonder of the experience, that today I am only going to post about the textures of Santa Fe.

Texture-it was everywhere. I love the desert. When I’m in that desert terrain where there are few plants to distract me, texture comes front and center and just shouts. Be sure to click on the photos for larger, more detailed versions.

I had only one afternoon to tool around Santa Fe so of course, I had to cruise Gallery Row, aka Canyon Road.

I started my trek along Canyon Road with 4 other artists, but each of us was stopping so often to take photos of everything, that eventually I went on by myself.

I am happy to have visited Santa Fe “off season”! With very few leafed out plants, the textures were striking. The wisteria vines are huge there and quite lovely, even without their fragrant blooms.

Even the doors are interesting.

Most of my trek to the gallery area was noon to early afternoon so the shadows were stark.

There’s a lot of color in those mailboxes-how charming!

I like the edited landscape here-color and texture-what more do you need? One cool thing about living in the desert is that there are few mosquitoes and flies-you can leave your doors and windows wide open! The worst that could happen would be a visit from one of those happy little lizard guys walking right in.

This was intriguing-there were many views like this.

Even the hotel had interesting texture-the English Ivy had died back for the winter, revealing this lovely twisted texture.

The Regional Reps were treated to a delightful evening at Jennifer Day’s home. She had these rocks trucked in from her cattle property so that they could grace her back yard.

Once I’ve recovered from this creativity overload and enter back into the real world, I’ll be sharing some of my experiences at the SAQA conference.