About the Artist

After 40 or so years in Alaska, Monica is now living in Santa Fe, New Mexico!  The blue sky (much of the time) and mild (relatively speaking) weather here in the high desert are so nice, and she is enjoying all the outdoor and cultural opportunities here. 

Monica paints both distant vistas and close-up views of the natural world.  She has always felt the need to make things and create art.  She loves the outdoors, wild scenery, and the quiet of natural places.  Influenced by patterns of color and texture, and intrigued by variations in scale from tiny to vast, she studies her surroundings and takes many reference photos for use in varying degrees of detail and accuracy for her acrylic paintings.  Her work is influenced by her thoughts about mountains, clouds, sky, water, snow, wildflowers, trees, birds, lichen, rocks, and other subjects of interest.  Her paintings range from fairly realistic to whimsical to more abstract compositions.