Painters

Chacon has completed over 50 murals in the Taos area. He also enjoys doing paintings, etchings, monotypes, drawings as well as murals. You've seen his Mural "El Santero" in the heart of Taos Historic District. George has received many awards for his art<br/>

Activist painter Hank Brusselback's site. Hank is known widely for his remarkable "Crying Presidents Series" of paintings depicting the aging American presidents crying with remorse over all the people they had ordered the deaths of. Also known as a scupltor, Hank Brusselback was a Taos and Boulder guy, until he moved to Dixon a few years back.

Holly Roberts painted photographs that plumb the experience of a contemporary artist-woman-mother-citizen. Shown at The Parks Gallery.

From the Land of the Midnight Sun to the Land of Enchantment" This site is for Swedish artist Inger Jirby's work and gallery in Taos. Paintings, Graphics, Posters. Passion-filled fauvist paintings. Emotional and spiritual power of color. Inger Jirby Gallery and Sculpture Garden, and Inger Jirby's Casitas are located on Historic Ledoux Street in Taos, New Mexico in a 200 year old adobe compound. It is lavishly landscaped, and is only one short block from Historic Taos Plaza. Inger Jirby's Casitas are very charming and beautifully furnished with Southwestern flare. They have full kitchens, full entertainment centers, fireplaces, Inger Jirby's art, and all the comforts of home. The luxury accommodations are the true "Taos Experience". Take a stroll down Historic Ledoux Street and into the fabulous world of color that Inger has lovingly created. You will be happy you came.

J Mehaffey lives in Carson, New Mexico in a house and studio she built herself. In addition to painting, J taught third grade at San Juan Pueblo elementary school. Currently J is represented in Taos, New Mexico by Horizon Gallery, and in Denver, Colorado.

JD Challenger was born in Oklahoma with a creative fire that first began to smolder when he was a very young child. After moving to Taos, New Mexico, Challenger enjoyed success as an artist painting landscapes. Privately, he continued to draw and paint as he was learning about Native Americans. He was reluctant to show his paintings in public for fear of offending a people he greatly admired. Working in oils and acrylics on canvas, as well as watercolor, his style continued to emerge and his passion grew. Upon witnessing a Ghost Dance ceremony being filmed for a movie, Challenger came face to face with his mission in life. "As I stood there watching the chanting and the dancing, I knew what I wanted to paint... nothing had ever been clearer." His wife, Denise, encouraged him to show his work to his Native American friends, one of whom was a holy man. When he did so, he received their blessing and was told, "There has to be a messenger and he doesn't have to be one of our People. The Creator chooses His own messengers. Your path is to tell our story and educate people about the past and about what is still happening today." Challenger takes his role seriously, but modestly declines credit for his remarkable gifts. "The thing I do best is paint. I prefer to look at it as 'not me' doing it, I'm just the instrument... The Creator, the brush, the paint, and then me. JD Challenger paints the story of a people rich in heritage and traditions; stories sometimes poignant, often angry... but always powerful and demanding to be told. Each portrait speaks its own truth. Challenger is the vessel that paints that truth.

After studying painting at Columbus College of Art and Design, The Instituto Allende, and Thomas Jefferson College, Jack Smith spent the majority of his thirty year painting career in Western Michigan and the American Southwest, principally Taos, New Mexico. Smith’s work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the United States and is in public and private collections internationally. Jack Smith has incorporated the black oil medium in his work since the mid-1970s. For a decade, from his Michigan farmhouse attic studio, he studied the technique and handling of this unique approach to painting. The resulting works achieved an Inner Light that he was only able to arrive at with this unique material.

Fine art steeped in the great traditions of the past. Featuring the works of Jackson Hensley and Michael Hensley. Jackson M. Hensley, a painter marked in the tradition of the American School of Realism, founded the Hensley Gallery in 1960. The gallery originally carried the works of only three artists, Janus Annus, Vladimir Bachinsky, and Jackson M. Hensley, each of whom continues to show at Hensley Gallery. Currently representing a stable of more than thirty artists, the gallery represents moderately priced young up and coming artisans to contemporary traditional masters. The Hensley Gallery is especially indebted to the masterful print making of Ladislav Hanka, and also to Michael Hensley's powerful depictions of the human condition. The Hensley Gallery also carries the exceptionally diversified ceramic works of Potsy Old as well as exquisite hand crafted jewelry by Havean Hensley.

Taos Artist James Fields has called Taos home for more than 30 years, but he is internationally acclaimed. The masterful southwest art of James Fields belongs to the world. James Fields paintings hang in every state in the Union and in numerous countries worldwide. James Fields's southwest paintings are realistic and, more recently, impressionistic. Southwest art prints of James Fields earlier works including three limited editions are available in beautiful color either framed or unframed. The frames are of the highest quality and are chosen by the artist to fit and relate to each print.

Jean Nichols came to northern New Mexico in 1968 and fell in love with the land and people. Jean Nichols's artistic pursuits include graphic illustration, stained glass, painting, sculpture, fiber arts, crafts and more. In the early 1980s, she and partner Alan Siegel started Mountain Ambulance Service (MAS) to fulfill a need in the Penasco area. To help relieve the stress of providing emergency services, Jean started The Laugh Staff - dedicated to "humor for the health of it". Her clown clinics are still an annual event at Sipapu Ski Area, as well as providing stress relief in struggles for peace, justice, & the environment. In 1996 Jean started Art For The Heart Studio, an on-going 'art for healing" project of MAS, providing after school art & community classes as well as a gallery to display & sell art, and a community wood shop. Through Art For The Heart, Jean's creativity touches the community,