Gallery With A Cause • Located in the New Mexico Cancer Center • Benefitting the NMCC Foundation
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Colleen Zacharias Gregoire grew up in the Midwest and studied drawing and painting privately before receiving her MFA in painting from the University of Kansas, where she began a life-long love for the local landscape. Painting plein air, she studied the change of seasons around the Flint Hills of Kansas and the surrounding farmland. Her work also focused on architectural settings that reflect the intimacies of daily life. Porches and verandas of the 19th and 20th century, and the way in which people incorporate them as a welcoming space to their homes continue to be featured in her work. She relocated to Placitas, NM in the fall of 2020, and has enjoyed new-found inspiration for her oils and watercolor paintings.
Gregoire is a cooperative member of the Wild Hearts Gallery in Placitas, NM; a member of the PALS (Plein Air Landscapers); a member of the PAPNM (Plein Air Painters of NM); a member of the Placitas Studio Tour; a member of the Placitas Library Art Committee and a member and editor of the Rio Grande Arts Association’s Palette newsletter.
Her paintings are inspired by a spiritual sense of 'home', a quiet respite defined by the house we live in or the land around us and illuminated by the changing light and colors of the seasons. Experiencing the New Mexico landscape with a newcomer’s eyes has provided new energy to her paintings, especially when she is painting plein air. Painting with and learning from fellow plein air painters has enriched her work. She feels that she owes so much to the vibrant artistic community of New Mexico for welcoming her with open arms.