artist: Ellen Kesten
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| Ice Crystals and Flicker watercolor 21" x 14" |
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| Comet pastels 17" x 11" |
“When the moment comes, it is in the act of moving away.
“In New Mexico we feel the moving away of time every day, that passion of beauty and grief when high clouds collide with bright light and dark mountains. Even as we watch, the brilliance changes, fades, leaving us with memory and inexpressible longing. This shifting of light, color and pattern, is my inspiration. These paintings are impressionistic and also recognizably here — high desert, New Mexico at its highest, deepest, most powerfully vivid.”
