Sandia Sunset
24” x 12” Framed Oil on canvas
This piece began with a photograph—one I stumbled across early on when I was just beginning to rekindle my passion for painting. Something about it stopped me in my tracks. The colors, the vastness, the quiet stretch of horizon... it felt oddly familiar, like a place I had been before. I followed that feeling and painted it from memory and instinct more than anything else.
After finishing the piece, I circled back to the photo’s source and discovered that it had been taken from the top of Sandia Peak, right where the La Luz Trail begins. I had been there—years earlier, standing in that same spot, taking in that same breathtaking view. I hadn’t realized how deeply that moment had rooted itself in me until it poured out through paint.
This painting holds that full-circle kind of magic—the way memory sometimes returns through color and texture before words or logic catch up. It’s about connection. About recognizing something within the landscape that mirrors something inside yourself.
Sandia Sunset
24” x 12” Framed Oil on canvas
This piece began with a photograph—one I stumbled across early on when I was just beginning to rekindle my passion for painting. Something about it stopped me in my tracks. The colors, the vastness, the quiet stretch of horizon... it felt oddly familiar, like a place I had been before. I followed that feeling and painted it from memory and instinct more than anything else.
After finishing the piece, I circled back to the photo’s source and discovered that it had been taken from the top of Sandia Peak, right where the La Luz Trail begins. I had been there—years earlier, standing in that same spot, taking in that same breathtaking view. I hadn’t realized how deeply that moment had rooted itself in me until it poured out through paint.
This painting holds that full-circle kind of magic—the way memory sometimes returns through color and texture before words or logic catch up. It’s about connection. About recognizing something within the landscape that mirrors something inside yourself.
