October Visual Artists

Somewhere between realism and impressionism is a place full of color and imagination – a place that you are not sure really exists, but it may. Adrienne Kleiman works primarily in acrylics on canvas. She is inspired greatly by the life, landscape, and architecture of New Mexico. However, she is most moved by color, light, and shadow, shapes and imagination, giving her unrestrained freedom in the subjects she chooses to paint. Kleiman works at her private studio in Placitas. She has participated in numerous exhibits, shows throughout New Mexico, and is honored to currently be showing her work in the Alexandra Stevens Gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was one of three featured artists in the February 2014 exhibit Three Artists: One Vision. In 2016 Kleiman was featured as one of the Twelve Emerging Artists in the Winter 2016 issue of “The Artist Catalog.” As a member of the New Mexico Art League she has exhibited in their juried shows. Her painting Another Day in Placitas is the 2018-19 brand for the Placitas Artists Series. Adrienne says: “When I paint I like to say that ‘I am in my right mind,’ using the right side of my brain and experiencing my highest form of meditation. As a golfer finds joy in hitting the perfect ball and is encouraged to recreate that perfect swing in the pursuit of a personal best score, I find joy in the brush stroke that creates the perfect light and brings life to my painting, encouraging me to continue my journey of expression through art. Thankfully, I am a better painter than I am a golfer. I created a special series of paintings for the Placitas Artists Series by applying the techniques I use on my New Mexico life and landscape paintings to musically themed images. While I painted, the color, light, and shadows became tone, tempo, and rhythm. My hope is that the viewer can see and feel the music in each painting.”

The desire to capture and bring back beautiful images while sailing in the Caribbean years ago first sparked Jeri Burzin’s interest in photography. She began taking photography workshops in beautiful places such as Yosemite, Monterey, and Ghost Ranch, and learned a great deal about the camera, Photoshop, and composition.  “Literacy through Photography” workshops at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University were instrumental in her work with students using photography as a medium of communication.    Burzin’s work is in many private collections, has been shown in venues including the Ansel Adams Gallery, the Yosemite Museum in Yosemite, Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos, and is currently on exhibit at Yucca Gallery, Old Town, Albuquerque, the Abiquiu Inn in Abiquiu, NM, and Gifted Hands Gallery in Madrid, NM. Designs in nature are often the subject of her work. Her desire to show how the commonplace may become the unusual continues to be a motivator.

Lynne Peckinpaugh’s childhood dream was to become an artist. Art classes were always her favorites in elementary and high school, and she went on to minor in Art at the University of New Mexico. While her life’s journey has taken many twists and turns, art and creativity have been integral parts of every stage. She continued to paint in oils and acrylics through the years, but is now enjoying the beauty and challenge of watercolor. Today her dream has become a reality. She is a Signature Member of the New Mexico Watercolor Society and has shown her art in juried exhibitions including the Placitas Artist’s Series, New Mexico Watercolor Society, New Mexico Art League, Gallery of the Cathedral of St. John, and New Mexico Masterworks Miniature Show. Lynne says: “Inspiration is all around me. Something as simple as the way a shadow spills over an adobe wall excites me and provides motivation to try and capture that vision on paper. Switching from oils and acrylics to watercolor presented quite a challenge; but through perseverance, I have come to love this medium. I paint mostly from photographs that I take but also enjoy painting Plein Air. The world is such a beautiful place, and choosing a subject from the myriad of possibilities is not always easy. My painting process goes through many stages and evokes a variety of emotions. That excitement felt when first seeing something I want to paint returns to me in even greater measure as my painting reaches completion. This is the reason I love to paint and enjoy sharing my paintings with others.”

After retiring from 33 years at a technical job in telecommunications in 2004 Gayle Elaine Scott finally had the time and space to do what she has always loved—creating art. For the past 13 years she has used her artistic energy to create mosaics, fused glass, sculptures, paintings, and jewelry which fill her studio with vibrant color. Experimentation and learning by trying many different processes and materials spur her continuous flow of creativity. Gayle says: “I consider myself a self-learning artist as I experiment with multiple processes and materials and consider the process more exciting than the finished product. My experimentation yields unexpected outcomes so there is always an element of surprise and always something new to learn so I am never bored.”