dawn chandler’s reflections on art and life. . . .
Walking the dry, alkali mudflats of Summer Lake in Lake County, OregonPassing through eastern Utah.I cut the same path across the Rand McNally Atlas that My Man and I had done in June when we road-tripped to the Pacific Northwest: Route 160 skirting southwest...
To think I almost didn't do it.Almost copped out from even trying.But the logistics of it all made my head hurt.To do it would mean so much planning, so much strategy... • I was going to California the weekend before to attend a...
listen to the silence ~ wheeler peak trail, taos, new mexico ~ by dawn chandler ~ mixed medi on panel (diptych) ~ 24"x36" copyright dawn chandler 2013Looking forward to tomorrow and being at this very spot....and listening to the silence. With the aspens...
what i really need right now.... ~ by dawn chandler ~ mixed media on panel (diptych) ~ 12" x 36" x 1.5" ~ copyright dawn chandler 2013It's the clouds, maybe more than anything else, that defines New Mexico for me. The sweep of grasslands and mesas between Springer and...
remembering the storm ~ by dawn chandler ~ oil & mixed media on panel ~ 6" x 6" ~ copyright dawn chandler 2013After a week in New England, I'm returning home to Santa Fe today — a home soggy with late-season record-breaking monsoonal rains. I'm thrilled to wake up...
Sometimes you meet someone and they electrify your soul. That's what happened last evening when I had two Alabama lawyers over for a studio visit and dinner. Within minutes I started to wonder if maybe we all hadn't been separated at birth at some point. Their passion...
I have to get out. Out from enclosure; out from a roof and four walls.I've spent all my summer under a roof and already there's the whisper of autumn in the air.I need coolness. And damp. A cool damp place where parched dust doesn't blow and the grass isn't...
have you.... ~ by dawn chandler ~ mixed media and rust on panel ~ 12 x 24 x 2 inches ~ copyright dawn chandler 2013Have you...Have you gazed?Have you camped?Have you galloped?Have you roamed?...Have you...?Am thrilled to have this painting take up half a page (!) of...