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2023 Signs of Spring Contest


And the winners are:

Favorite of the Favorite Four as voted by the members of the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico:

Madina Croce's #30, Wall Shadows

Favorite Four:

#20. Damien Gonzales. Truchas Peak. 

#26. Carole Belliveau. Spring River Run.

#27. Michele Byrne. Conversations in Truchas.

#30. Madina Croce. Wall Shadow (Favorite of the Favorite Four)


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52 photo(s) Updated on: 10 Jun 2023
  • 1. Suzanne Schleck. Sonoran Glow, oil, 12X16”, Scottsdale AZ, $1,850
  • 2. Oakland Spring April 2023 Oil on linen panel 9x12 Eileen Keller
  • 3. April Morning, 8X10 oil on linen panel, Sandia Mountains Foothills; Christopher Miller
  • 4. John Misner . Round Bales . Oil on panel. 8"x10". Plein air.
  • 5. Spring Greens, Oil, 12x9, Big Thompson River.
  • 6. Ann at the Botanical Gardens
  • 7. Ohaiula Beach, Hawaii
  • 8. So New Mexico
  • 9.Backyard Juniper
  • 10. Tea House in May
  • 11. Ruth Marcanti, Early Monsoons, Oil on canvas, 11"x14", Jemez Mountains, $400
  • 12. Canyon Moods. Jack McGowan.
  • 13. "A Creek Runs Through It"
  • 14. "At the Gallery" /Golden Chain Tree. 12" x 6" oil. $925. Cynthia Inson.
  • 15. My Back Porch
  • 16. Aspen Spring, oil, 9"x12", Santa Fe , NFS
  • 17.Greenbelt Blues, pastel 12x12,by Linda Wells, Santa Fe & Lakeway, Tx., $650
  • 18. Spring Along the Santa Fe River, Oil, 6"x12", off of West Alameda, Marcia Williams
  • 19. "Beaver Pond"by Nora Larimer, 15x11", Watercolor, Cottonwood Pass, Buena Vista,
  • Favorite Four. Damien Gonzales. 20. The Truchas Peaks
  • 21. "Sundown Irises, Tesuque" 16x20"oil on panel
  • 22. Carla Forrest
  • 23. Under the Wild Plum Trees, Taos NM
  • 24. After the Flood, 9”x12”, oil on panel, Jemez canyon
  • 25. Rachel Pearson, Spring Runoff II, 12"x16", oil
  • Favorite Four. Carole Belliveau. 26. Spring River Run, Oil, 11x14, painted at the River at East Alameda
  • Favorite Four. Michele Byrne. 27. Morning Conversations in Truchas, 12" x 16", Oil on Linen panel, Truchas, NM
  • 28. Spring Blossoms in the Wind 12" x 16" oil on panel, Rinconada, NM $900
  • 29. Sundancers
  • Best of Show. 30. Madina Croce, "Wall Shadows", oil on panel, 14 x 11, Santa Fe
  • 31. Jemez Shack, Oil, 9 x 12, Jemez Springs, NM, $650
  • 32. "Passage to the Past" Diane Arenberg
  • 33. "Potomac River in May", Oil on Linen, 9x12, River Bend, VA, $1,400
  • 34. Random Hollyhocks, oil on 11x14 panel, hollyhocks growing behind vacant building.
  • 35. Ruan Bacigalupa, Morning Star, oil, 9x12, Petroglyph National Monument.
  • 36. "Spring Day in Old Santa Fe", Oil, 11"x14", Santa Fe Historic Eastside by Lisa Flynn
  • 37. "Delightful Morning on 8th Avenue"
  • 38. First outing, oil on linen, 8X10, Taos Gorge
  • 40. Barbara Mulleneaux
  • 41. Rio Grande Gorge On A June Day, by Monica O'Keefe, watercolor, 8" x 8", pull off on Hwy 68 north of Pilar, NFS
  • 42. Jemez Valley Mesa, Oil, 8” x 10”, Jemez Spring, NM, NFS, Kristin Baker
  • 43. Spring Field oil on panel 11"x 14" $770.00
  • 44. Elizabeth Cooper, 9 x 12” Pastel “I Walked in a Garden”, Santa Fe.
  • 45. Brilliant Spring Day at Diablo
  • 46. "Afternoon at La Cienega", oil on canvas, 11" x 14", La Cienega, NM.
  • 47. Spring Blooming
  • 48. Spring Creek at Truchas, Nm
  • 49. “Blue Ridge Pop of Color”
  • 50. “Carolina Parkway”
  • 51. Jemez Sacred Canyon, Pastel on paper, 15.5”x12”, Jemez Pueblo, NM, by Kat Hansen
  • 52. Forsynthia in bloom
  • 53. Dick Wimberly - Planters Delight,


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