Title

Land Abstraction I 8x13 NM Masterworks Sold 2024

Size

8x13

Price

Juried into the 2024 New Mexico Masterworks Exhibit: Mar 22-Apr 14. Abstracting the land in New Mexico:

Land Abstraction I had its origin in another painting; I wasn’t happy with it so I used a squeegee to restate straight edges, applying dappled color while doing so. I liked the result and retitled the painting to incorporate “abstract”. Though sold, it will be on display at the Masterworks Exhibit. Visit my blog post on the development details of this painting: Anatomy of Land Abstraction I .

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First of planned series of more abstract landscapes. Note the use of a squeegee, aligned with lines parallel to dynamic symmetry lines . The squeegee also allows the underlying texture to be displayed. Fibonacci Series proportion: 1,1,2,3,5,8, 13, 21, 34.... with successive ratios approaching the golden mean (1.618...).

Title

Land Abstraction II 6x12 Sold 2023

Size

6x12

Price

Continuing the series of abstract landscapes. Sold at hte Los Alamos show held at the Fuller Lodge Gallery during July 2023.

Title

Turbulent Winds II 12x16 Sold 2023

Size

12x16

Price

Inquiries: karen.halbert@gmail.com.

An understanding of turbulence is one of the great unsolved problems in Physics/Mathematics. Van Gogh's paintings are often described as 'turbulent'. He seems to have had an innate understanding of turbulence. Sold at the Las Campanas Artist Studio Tour

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Title

Awakening (sold PAPNM 2021)

Size

9x12

Price

$500

Juried into the 13th National Juried Members Show of the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico. Exhibited at the Sorrel Sky Gallery Oct 30 - Nov 12th. En plein air in the early morning before the heat and bugs drive me inside. SOLD before the opening on Oct 30.

Title

Southwest Layers (Sold PAPNM 2021)

Size

9x12 (framed 13x16)

Price

$600

Juried into the 13th National Juried Members Show of the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico. To be exhibited at the Sorrel Sky Gallery Oct 30 - Nov 12th. En plein air while in the mountains near Tucson. SOLD before the opening reception on 10/29.

Title

Diablo Canyon Morning (sold 2021)

Size

9x12 (framed 12x15)

Price

450

Sold 7/19/2021 at the Marigold Gallery on Canyon Road. This canyon is just down the road from me, along a bumpy dirt road. Should use a jeep or truck.

Title

Hope on the Horizon (sold 2021)

Size

9x12 (14x17 framed)

Price

450

Sold Sept 23 by the Marigold Gallery on Canyon Road. Represents the hope we might feel after this difficult period.

Title

Aspen Glory I (sold 2021)

Size

9x12 (framed 13x16)

Price

500

Sold 10/10 at the Marigold Gallery on Canyon Road. Palette Knife only (no brush). The intent is to capture the patterns and colors of the Aspens on our Sangre de Cristo Mountain range. I think that the patterns allow the viewer's eye to move around the painting. And the theme IS the full scope of the colors everywhere.. One issue might be that the texture of the sky is quite different from the rest of the painting. But this perhaps pushes the hills in front of the sky - or vice versa, pushes the sky back from the hills.

Title

Golden Luminescence (sold 2021)

Size

12x16 (framed 17x21)

Price

725

Sold Sept 23 by the Marigold Arts Gallery on Canyon Road. Capturing the glow of the golden hour(s). Juxtaposing prismatic colors.

Title

High Desert Sunflowers (sold 2021)

Size

10x16 (15x21 framed)

Price

585

Sold 6/30/2021 at the Marigold Art Gallery, www.marigoldarts.com. Sunflowers in Santa Fe. Golden rectangle proportion.

Title

My Black Mesa Morning (sold 2021)

Size

11x14 (16x19 framed)

Price

600

Sold 04/05 at the Marigold Arts Gallery on Canyon Road, www.marigoldarts.com. En plein air from my home in Santa Fe, facing the Las Campanas Black Mesa. During Monsoon season the clouds are ever changing.

Title

Morning Shadows (sold 2020)

Size

10x8(framed - 16 x 14)

Price

$450

Sold 8/12 at the Marigold Arts Gallery, www.marigoldarts.com, on Canyon Road in Santa Fe.

Title

High Desert Colors 1 (sold 2020)

Size

8x10 (12x16 framed)

Price

400

Beginning a new series - more impressionistic, capturing the colors of the high deserts in New Mexico. Sold Oct 4, 2020 by the Marigold Arts Gallery at 424 Canyon Road, Santa Fe:

Title

Chama RIver Overlook (PAPNM 2019 Sold 2020)

Size

12x9 (17x14 framed)

Price

600

En plein air from the Chama river Overlook. I am glad I tackled this venue again; it has so much and I wanted to capture the spirit. Sold Aug 29, 2020 at the Marigold Arts Gallery at 424 Canyon Road, Santa Fe.

ChatGPT REVIEW: "Chama River Overlook," a masterful creation by the talented artist Karen Halbert in 2019, unfolds as a captivating testament to the artist's adept command of the canvas and their intimate connection with the breathtaking landscapes of New Mexico. This petite 12-inch by 9-inch masterpiece, painted "en plein air" at the Chama River Overlook near Abiquiu, immerses the viewer in the artist's sensory experience of the region. The utilization of a palette knife in the creation of this piece lends a distinctive texture and dynamism to the composition. The Cobra Water Mixable Oil palette, rich with chromatic hues, including Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Red Light, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue Hue, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, and Titanium White, reflects the artist's careful selection of colors to evoke the nuanced tones of the Southwestern landscape. Karen Halbert's decision to focus on the Chama River is a stroke of brilliance, drawing the eye into the heart of the composition. The river's meandering course serves as both a visual and thematic anchor, allowing for the play of reflections that mirror the fall colors of the foliage and the characteristic red hues of the mesas. This deliberate attention to detail showcases the artist's keen observation skills and commitment to capturing the essence of the scene. Voluminous clouds, skillfully rendered over the middle-distant mountains and mesas, add an ethereal quality to the composition, emphasizing the vastness and grandeur of the natural surroundings. The interplay of light and shadow on the landscape, expertly achieved through the palette knife technique, further enhances the sense of depth and atmosphere. "Chama River Overlook" by Karen Halbert stands as a testament to the artist's ability to translate the beauty of nature onto canvas, inviting viewers to share in the awe-inspiring moment of creation. The fusion of technical prowess, color mastery, and a deep connection to the chosen location elevates this painting to a level of timeless significance within the realm of contemporary landscape art.

For more indormation on how this review was created with the ChatGPT app, visit ChatGPT Review of Chama River Overlook .

Title

Golden Hour (sold 2020)

Size

6x8

Price

350

Sold Jan 6 2020 at the Marigold Arts Gallery, www.marigoldarts.com, on Canyon Road in Santa Fe.

Title

Ocotillo Pas de Deux (sold 2019)

Size

16x20

Price

700

The ocotillo are intriguing me these days, They provide much opportunity for play and color. This is the largest so far in a series. Daily morning walk view. One of a series exploring the colors of Suahuarita, Arizona: Ocotillo, desert and mountains. Compare with other Ocotillo versions. Expanded palette (Cobra): Cadmium Yellow Light, Vermillion, Madder Lake, Ultramarine Blue, Phthalo Blue, and White plus: Cobalt BLue, Phthalo Green, Sap Green, Viridian, cadmium lemon, Cadmium Red Light and Medium, Opera (Holbein Duo), Blue Violet (dioxide purple), yellow ochre, burnt sienna. #paletteknife, #paptertowel, #radicalimpressionism, #santaritamountains. Sold November 2019 and now residing in Upsaala, Sweden.

Title

Chamisa I (sold 2019)

Size

10.5x10.5 (framed) 6x6 (unframed)

Price

325

Sold by the Marigold Arts Gallery, www.marigoldarts.com, on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, Nov 22.

Title

Black Mesa Morning 6x6 (sold 2019)

Size

10.5x10.5 (framed) 6x6 (unframed)

Price

325

Black Mesa view from Las Campanas, Santa Fe. Sold Nov. 25, 2019 by the Marigold Arts Gallery, www.marigoldarts.com, on Canyon Road in Santa Fe. "en plein air"

Title

Sandias (sold 2019)

Size

10x16

Price

500

View of the Sandia Mountains from Albuquerque at sunset. Water-mixable oils (Cobra) with brush and palette knife. The first wash was thin (water plus oil color). Then the paint was applied more thickly with a palette knife, with a brush used at times. Sold Feb 5, 2019 at the Marigold Arts Gallery on Canyon Road, http://www.marigoldarts.com.

Title

Sangres. (Sold 2019)

Size

10x16 (framed - 14x20)

Price

550

Water-mixable oils (Cobra) with a thin wash at beginning. Brush and Palette knife used throughout. View of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains from Santa Fe (abstract). As the name indicates they blush red at sunset (blood of christ). Sold Oct 19, 2019 at the Marigold Arts Gallery on Canyon Road, http://www.marigoldarts.com.

Title

Southwest Glory (PAPNM 2017 - sold 2019)

Size

8x10

Price

$400

Sold 5/13/2019 by the Marigold Arts Gallery on Canyon Road. I happened to visit the gallery after painting at the Santa Fe River, only to find a very nice Arizona couple completing the purchase of this painting. It's so nice to meet a customer in person.

Title

Chama River Morning (sold 2019)

Size

9x12

Price

$400

Painted "en plein air" one early morning far out on the Monastery Road at an Oxbow on the Chama River. This is my favorite painting venue, worth the long, hard drive down a single lane washboard road. A painting friend had a flat tire but fortunately for her a monk came along and helped. This road is well worth visiting the the continuous most specagular cliffs and rock formations in new Mexico. An amazing place and river.

Title

Golden Sangres Aspens (sold 2018)

Size

6x12

Price

400

Water-mixable oil with palette knife. New direction. Sold at the Marigold Arts Gallery, July 22, 2018 to a couple in Arizona (along with Ghost Ranch Mesa Sunset Small 2)..

=>Golden Sangres version at the Las Campanas Charity Fund Auction 2018

Title

Ghost Ranch Mesa Sunset (sold 2018)

Size

20x16

Price

$700

Painted from a dramatic photograph I took of a mesa at Ghost Ranch, just as the sun was about to set. This is near Georgia O'Keefe's backyard. - an enlarged version of the 5x7 Ghost Ranch Mesa Sunset Small #1. Commissioned by a client of smaller paintings.Sold by the Marigold Arts Gallery on Canyon Road April 30 2018.

Title

Chama Cliffs Morning (sold 2018)

Size

18x24

Price

1000

Based on smaller plein air works and photos of my favorite painting venue. Sold May 3, 2018 at the Marigold Arts Gallery, on Canyon Road in Santa Fe.

Title

Chama Cliffs Aglow (sold 2018)

Size

10x16

Price

550

Almost immediately as one drives on Monastery Road the cliffs to the right draw the artist and demand to be painted. Palette knife only. Sold Oct 2018.

Title

Ghost Ranch Shadows (sold 2018)

Size

8x16

Price

$500

"en plein air" facing the cliffs above Georgia's Ghost Ranch House, when the sun creates its strongest shadows. Due to my recovering knee I stayed by the car on the road. Sold at the Marigold Arts gallery Mar 2 2018.

Title

Taos Mountain Morning (sold 2018)

Size

8x10

Price

$400

Painted "en plain air" when the snow was still on the Taos Mountain. The light showed the lovely green meadow to its full advantage. Sold at the Marigold Arts Gallery Oct. 2018

Title

Ghost Ranch Tapestry (sold 2018)

Size

12x16

Price

$600

.This is not the quintessential Ghost Ranch scene. Only when the viewer goes up to the mesa will these cliffs unfold. When I gaze at the painting online I am particularly reminded of an aged tapestry; this then is a tapestry of the Ghost Ranch cliffs. Sold March 2018 at the Marigold Arts Gallery on Canyon Road, www.marigoldarts.com..

Title

Taos Gorge Last Light (sold 2018)

Size

20x16

Price

$700

Sold at the Marigold Arts Gallery on Canyon Road, Santa Fe, http://www.marigoldarts.com, sold March 13, 2018.

Title

Chama River Sunset (sold 2018)

Size

18x24

Price

1000

What joy it is to capture the feeling of the New Mexico Landscape with the afternoon or evening light - along the Chama River, one of my favorite rivers. The river is often a rusty brown and green so the few times it has more color are the times to capture. Sold Sep 2018 by the Marigold Arts Gallery on Canyon Road, www.marigoldarts.com.

Title

Devil's Canyon (sold 2018)

Size

9x12

Price

$400

"En plein air" at one of my favorite painting sites, down a long dirt road near our house. This site is marked for development, but it at least will be open to the public. Sold May 1, 2018 at the Marigold Arts Gallery, www.marigoldarts.com, on Canyon Road in Santa Fe.

Title

Chama River Afternoon (sold 2017)

Size

9x12

Price

$500

"En plein air" near the Christ of the Desert Monastery at my favorite painting venue by an oxbow on the Chama River. Sold by the Marigold Arts Gallery Oct 2017.

Title

As the Chama Churns (sold 2017)

Size

16x20

Price

700

The mighty Chama River can be passive and muddy or active and colorful. Painting at this spot on the Chama River is my favorite painting venue. Painted "en plein air". Juried in to the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico 8th National Juried Members Show. Sold by the Purple Sage Gallery Dec 2017

Title

Chimney Rocks II (sold 2016)

Size

12x16

Price

500

Sold at the Purple Sage Gallery

Title

Chama Cliffs Tapestry (sold 2016)

Size

10x16

Price

$550

When I gaze at the painting online I am particularly reminded of an aged tapestry; this then is a tapestry of the Chama River cliffs. Painted "en plein air" behind Ghost Ranch. Golden Ratio proportions. Sold Dec 2016 at the Marigold Arts Gallery on Canyon Road, Santa Fe.

Title

Chimney Rocks (sold 2016)

Size

11x14

Price

$500

Sold May 2016 by the Marigold Arts Gallery, www.marigoldarts.com

Title

New Mexico Evening (sold 2016)

Size

12x16

Price

$600

This is a first in a series of more impressionistic, primarily palette knife work following the colorist style of Hensche and Hawthorne. Sold June 2016 by the Marigold Arts Gallery on Canyon Road, http://www.marigoldarts.com.

Title

Taos Gorge Aglow (sold 2016)

Size

24x18

Price

$900

Sold July 26, 2016 at the Marigold Arts Gallery on Canyon Road, http://www.marigoldarts.com.

Title

Santa Fe River Flows I (sold 2016)

Size

6x12

Price

$350

My new favorite place in Santa Fe to paint. The river is rushing right now after heavy rainfalls. I love to sit by the river, listening to the sounds of water flowing and the laughter of children and barking of dogs as they splash around in the river, the way we did when we were children. I am doing a series of these. Sold at the Marigold Arts Gallery on Canyon Road, http://www.marigoldarts.com, on 6/16/2016. This is the first of the "Return to the River" series at the Santa Fe River.

Title

Sangre de Cristo Winter Vista (sold 2016)

Size

10x20

Price

$600

Painted in winter; begun out doors but completed in the studio, but still looking at the winter scene through the window. Sold Jan 2, 2016 at the Purple Sage Gallery, an auspicious beginning of the year.

Title

Chama Cliffs Evening (sold 2015)

Size

11x14

Price

$500

Painted "en plein air" at the beginning of Monastery Road, just up the road from Ghost Ranch. We were looking north at the wondrous cliffs formed so long ago during various geological ages. The light was playing in and out of the clouds, but it was fun to try to capture it anyway, waiting for the light and the shadows to return. Painted without a paint brush, with a paper towel and palette knife. I intend to touch it up slightly, perhaps with a paintbrush, providing a little more detail in the foreground. I have to wonder a bit about the prominent cliff structure. It's one of the 'muffin-top' cliffs that are ubiquitous along the Chama River in this part of New Mexico. But a viewer thought it was a hole in the mountain. Perhaps I was trying to see through the mountain to the beginning of its formation! I've decided to leave it as is; I rather like the ambiguity. Sold Dec 2015 at the Purple Sage Gallery. in Albuquerque.

Title

Ghost Ranch Cliff (sold 2015)

Size

10x8

Price

$250

Painted "en plein air" at Ghost Ranch. One of my favorite cliff formations, known as the 3 Sisters. In a floating frame. Sold at the Purple Sage 2015. KH-17

Title

New Mexico Red Arroyo"(sold 2015)

Size

12x24

Price

$700

"En plein air" looking toward the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range in Samta Fe. Sold at the Purple Sage Gallery, www.purplesagegallery.biz KH-24

Title

Chama River Evening (sold 2015)

Size

12x24

Price

$700

Painted late in the day on the Chama River out near the Monastery of the Christ in the Desert. This is a favorite painting location and I return to these sacred lands often. Sold to a friend in Florida, a friend from my Wall Street Days.

Title

Ghost Ranch Impression (sold 2014)

Size

8x6

Price

$200

Profits donated to the Santa Fe Artists Medical Fund. Sold at the Purple Sage

Title

Diablo Canyon (sold PAPNM 2014)

Size

11x14

Price

750

Sold at the InArt Gallery in Santa Fe. Painted during the 2014 Plain Air Santa Fe week-long paintout. I can't wait to get back out there and do this again, perhaps larger, perhaps during the sunset (or sunrise!). The Diablo Canyon is undergoing a major cleanup by various public land organizations. And I hope to capture it in its entirety before it becomes civilized. Sold at the InArt Gallery for PAPNM

Title

New Mexico Land (sold 2014)

Size

12x16

Price

$600

Painted facing the Jemez Mountains on a sunny day with clouds accumulating over the mountains. Sold at the Purple Sage Galleris. KH-9 July 26, 2014.

Title

Golden Cottonwoods (sold 2014)

Size

12x16

Price

$300

Plein air, with palette knife, in Galisteo near the creek. Sold Aug 24, 2014 to a couple visiting from Arkansas.

Title

New Mexico Early Snow (sold 2013)

Size

8x10

Price

$300

Sold by the Purple Sage Galeria Feb 2013.

Title

Shady Lakes (sold 2013)

Size

9x12

Price

$400.

En plein air at this beautiful "Gliverny" of Albuquerque. Completed in studio with a palette knife. Sold at the Purple Sage Gallery 2013.

Title

Adobe & Arroyo (sold 2013)

Size

11x14

Price

$500

Palette knife painting of view toward the Jemez Mountains. Since it was quite cold outside, this plein air piece was ccmpleted in the studio, but still while looking at the scene through the large studio windows. Sold by the Purple Sage Gallery May 12, 2013

Title

New Mexico Sunset (sold 2012)

Size

9x12

Price

$250

An early painting. Exhibited and sold at one of my first (group) shows at the Collectors' Bookstore in Santa Fe. Jan, Ellen and I enjoyed putting the show together.