2024 - 2025 Season |
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| The gallery is open Seven days a week, Open11 AM to 4 PM. |
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December 2024 |
Hello friends and customers, I for one, am glad 2024 is coming to an end. Seems most galleries in town had a hard last season. I am very hopeful for a better 2024-2025 season. The holidays are coming up and the Feminine Mystique Art Gallery has wonderful art for all. Please visit us and be greeted by smiling faces and helpful sales people. We, Pat, Joanie and Josette welcome you all. Let’s catch up.
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December 6 - 7, 5 to 9 PM
Luminaria Nights de Tubac is held the first Friday and Saturday in December! The Historic Village is lit up with luminarias! Enjoy treats, shopping, music, and more. Stores will be open late for shopping. Bring a flashlight!  
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Artists in the spotlight this month: |
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Asja Dawn Eckertson |
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Barbara Peabody |
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Barbara Peabody
Though Barbara is a native of Boston, Massachusetts, she has lived in the Southwest since 1969 and has been painting since 1965. Her works in oils, watercolor, pastels, printmaking and drawing have been exhibited in many Southwestern galleries, as well as Virginia, North Carolina, Dominican Republic, and various cities in Mexico through cultural exchange programs. Barbara is bilingual and appreciates the color and diversity of Latin American art and culture, which is manifested in her own art.
Beginning in 1990, Barbara began painting functional pieces of furniture, textiles and ceramics. She enjoys using bold colors and creating useful chests, chairs, tables, knife blocks, candleholders, etc., that lift one’s spirits and energize those who use and enjoy her creations. Though these designs may seem out of place in Chicago or Detroit, they are perfect in the homes of the Southwest.
Barbara has done much to help others in the art community. In Santa Fe, New Mexico, she co-founded a cooperative art gallery creating opportunity for local artists to exhibit and manage their own art sales; and, in San Diego, she established the first art program in the country for people with HIV/AIDS so they could create, exhibit and sell their work.
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Sandy Applegate |
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Sandy Applegate
Sandy has been a full-time resident of Pagosa Springs, Colorado since 1995. She was born in Wisconsin, raised in Illinois, and attended art school in Chicago. She is currently devoting her time to creating and marketing her artwork.
Sandy studied art in college, spent many years in a variety of careers and past-times, but always created and experimented with art media. With the addition of several workshops with notables such as Pierre Mion, Gary Greene, Vera Curnow, Stephen Quiller, and Sandra Duran Wilson, she is free to use her “Artistic License” to create whatever reality she dreams of.
Starting to draw and “doodle” as a teenager, she always knew she was destined to do things differently. This is evident in one very early photograph of her with her two sisters and brother: the other three stand erect, hands at their sides, facing the camera head-on with nice smiles on their faces. Sandy however has arms akimbo, is turned 45 degrees to the left, eyes closed with a scrunched-up little grin on her face. No wonder that she calls her artwork “Reality With a Twist”.
Sandy’s artwork deals with shape, color and ideas, definitely with her own version of reality. She works primarily in acrylic, watercolor, and pen with ink. Her newest medium is oil-based ink in which she creates Monoprints on paper or canvas, a method learned from Shy Rabbit’s Michael Coffee – his reductive-ink process. She often incorporates mixed media to create unusual effects. She likes to have several series of different subject matter in the works at one time, this helps to keep her images and ideas fresh and lively.
Her colors are bold, exciting and vibrant. Her images are partly literal, but she incorporates “other-worldly” or abstract elements also. Many pieces contain suggestions of the macrocosmic or microcosmic in them, often using circles or repetition to indicate the on-going cyclic nature of life. She keeps a sense of humor about her, and loves to leave room in her work for the mysterious, the personal interpretation.
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Marie Green |
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Marie Green
“Good with my hands” became the defining direction for Marie as school proved to be a difficult place. Art class seemed to be an easy escape and it was the surprise discovery - art was Marie’s niche - and the beginning of a life’s work.
Early life in Hawaii on a sugar plantation in the 1940’s, being a different time, allowed Marie as a small child to wander freely the streams, seashore, and hills unusually observant and very interested in what she saw - a very beautiful place.
Fifty years in Arizona is where Marie took root. The desert, sandstone country, canyonlands, is home. Since 1972 art has been the full time endeavor and the catalyst to pursue a life-long passion for horses, particularly Arabian horses from Russia and Poland.
Study of the four corners history, cliff dwellings, and pottery of the Anasazi - the land of the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, the wildlife - defines the work. There were many years spent on foot, by boat, by raft, and on horseback, seeing places few people see.
Doing the artwork required only a small space, no fancy studio, because Marie’s sacred place was outside, especially her barn with her horses. There was always a yard full of beautiful birds, rabbits, several kinds of squirrels, a lot of mostly harmless
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Leslie Snow
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January 2025 |
January 2025, I feel, will be a challenging year. We all have to show patience and be aware of issues that effect us the most. I would like to see more kindness and respect for others. I am not sure about the country and the leaders running it. I do want to see what comes next, and hope the government will show more compassion and willingness to include all of us in the decision making. But like they say, ”It is what it is.” and make the best of it. Blessings to you all for a new prosperous and kind 2025. You will always find happy greetings at the Feminine Mystique Art Gallery. Sincerely, Pat
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Linda Leon Scott |
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Linda L Leon Scott
Linda is a native of Tucson and has spent a lifetime creating artwork of her beloved Arizona. She studied Fine Art at University of Arizona, but eventually changed careers to pursue medical imaging, specializing as a Medical Sonographer, the art and science of imaging with sound waves. “Truly a profound experience, working closely with people… patients and doctors, using a science that visualizes the human body. Ultrasound is not only a science but takes the eye of an artist to comprehend.”
Wanting to continue her journey in the healing arts, Linda earned a master’s degree in Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine, where she helped people for 20 years, until selling her Mesa acupuncture practice in 2022. “Retiring from a 40+ year medical career, has allowed me to fully focus on my first love, visual arts and painting.” As an experienced healer, she has learned that the human experience of creating and appreciating all types of art is a breath of life. “Creation, as well as, the experience of art inspires and uplifts, bringing peace, satisfaction, and healing. Looking back on my life, I was delighted and surprised to realize that working in my chosen fields was truly an artistic calling… imaging the many landscapes of the body; taking portraits of new life stirring within; and facilitating the movement of Qi (energy) to promote healing.”
Through her unique life experience, Linda creates vibrant and healing art of the Southwest, using pencil, acrylic, oil, pastels, and mixed media. Her subjects are everything from horses to prickly pear to dogs and children… capturing light in everyday life. She presses the boundaries of color and brushwork to evoke an earthy, rich, and bright feeling of the subject, with a true love for its Qi. “I invite you to join me in creating more joy and satisfaction in your life through creation of your own artwork!”
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Ann Ramsey |
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Ann Ramsey
Ann loves both music and sewing, so she can sum up her work by paraphrasing a snippet of a song from “The Music Man.” “The hours I spend with a needle in my hand are golden. Help me cultivate design sense and a cool head and a keen eye…”
Although Ann’s official career was as a high school teacher, she has sewn all of her adult life and enjoys
quilting as well as garment construction and embellishment. Ann’s quilt work has been exhibited in The Johnson County, Kansas Museum, The National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky, numerous quilt exhibitions, including Road to California, and can be found in private collections in homes throughout the US.
Ann majored in Spanish at the University of Kansas and had the opportunity to study in several Spanish-speaking countries, including Spain, Costa Rica, and Mexico. She fell in love with the cultures of the countries she lived in and continues to have a deep respect for the traditions she learned about. You’ll often see evidence of her love of Mexican holidays in her art work. Ann wishes she could remember Spanish as well as she remembers the traditions she fell in love with!
Once Ann and her husband, Rick, relocated to Arizona from Kansas, the beauty of the Arizona landscape became another favorite theme in Ann’s art, in addition to her love of flowers, birds, and butterflies.
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Diane Delaney |
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Diane Delaney
Transforming clay into a unique sculpture is my passion. Influenced by nature, each piece is hand-built using the coil, pinch, and/or slab method.
Originally from Florida, I grew up in an artistic household, encouraged by my mother—a watercolor, acrylic, and ceramic artist. However, the route to creating my own “Art” was rather circuitous.
I’ve had a variety of careers in the education, tourism, and sustainable development fields for both for-profit and non-profit organizations and directed our consulting firm.
However, travel has been my touchstone. I lived in Iran and Venezuela for over a decade while visiting countries throughout the world. Along the way I’ve had some amazing adventures, from riding my Arab Stallion in the desert, being among the first travelers to enter Nepal, climbing Roraima Tepui, exploring the Galapagos Islands and Amazon Basin, scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef, and taking a one-year jeep safari throughout South America.
During this time, I enriched my life with art, primarily photography and oil painting. While living in Portland, I furthered my artistic pursuits at the Oregon College of Arts and Crafts. But it was our move to Arizona and months exploring the Chiricahua Mountains that uncovered my love of clay.
Today I am a resident Ceramic Artist and Instructor at Friendship Village’s Art Studios in Tempe, Arizona. I am creating my ClayNature world of Totems, Sculptures, and Bouquets to connect buyers to the natural world and hopefully inspire them to combat climate change and ecosystem degradation. Perhaps through art we can help the web of life from unraveling.
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Joni Olson |
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Joni Olson
Originally from New England, my taste in many things artistic was more conservative and pragmatic. For 35 years I owned a fine jewelry store just outside of Boston and my clientele were traditional in their tastes. Thinking and marketing “outside the box” just didn’t pay. In my retirement, however, the shackles have come off and I am freer to exercise a new and exciting level of creativity.
With family living in Tucson, my many trips to the desert Southwest and to Mexico have drawn me into a different way of thinking about form and color. I have always loved the mystical feeling of traveling in Native American territories. The very spiritual aura of the Canyon de Chelly, and the sparse openness of Monument Valley have inspired me to seek out symbols representative of a more organic existence.
Petroglyphs, found throughout North America, carry forth “stories” of ancient cultures more profoundly tied to the earth. I have traveled throughout the dessert Southwest seeking these inspirations.
Color has taken on a new meaning through the influence of the Mayan and Spanish cultures and trips to Mexico and Guatemala cemented my desire to expand my color-consciousness. I have learned to cast off traditional combinations in favor of what used to appear wild and seemingly discordant mixtures. Colors I once viewed as too bold and “clashing” I now see as inspired and eclectic. The concept of colors “clashing” seems a poor invention!
The unusual marriage of symbolism such as ancient petroglyphs and vibrant colors makes each one of my creations a true labor of love.
These one-of-a-kind earrings and necklaces are entirely hand painted on light weight brass. Painting under magnification allows meticulous attention to detail and precise blending of colors.
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