Paintings of Time and Place

"Taos Pueblo," Oil on Canvas, Power of the Mountain and the Pueblo

 

Taos Pueblo is now in quiet time so that its members may reflect on and save traditions that have been handed down for the last 1,000 years.  I live about 5 miles from the pueblo and acknowledge its significance and power for me and the rest of the community.  I first visited the pueblo in 1985 where I observed Native Americans building a new structure with  adobe bricks fashioned out of mud and straw.  I was so taken with the process that I purchased one of the very bricks going into the wall and took it with me back to California where I lived at the time.  As I moved, I moved the brick--to northern NV, then to Taos, a town in which I never expected to live.  Serendipity has its rewards.  Could it have been the power of the pueblo that pulled me back to this magical  place?  I still own the brick.  It sits in its own place of honor.

                           Taos Pueblo, Oil on Canvas, 6 X 4" (gallery wrap)

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"Magic of the Sands," Oil Inspired by White Sands, New Mexico

The sands and dunes of the White Sands area of New Mexico appear as if from another world, a world of far away.  Once the sun hits the sand, the nearby world dances with colorful magic, more than just the white that one would imagine.  It is difficult to picture these beautiful sands as a harbinger of the atomic disaster to strike at the end of World War II. 

 

"Magic of the Sands,"  Oil on Canvas, 24 X 24" (gallery wrap), $1150 USD

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Winner, 2011 International Women in the Arts, ARTROM Gallery, Rome, Italy

 

 

 

Charlotte "Charlee" Shroyer has been named first place winner in the 2011 Top Ten International Women in the Arts competition sponsored by ARTROM Gallery, Rome, Italy. Artists from more than 20 countries participated in this competition honoring the creative energy of women.

 

Long fascinated by Cistercian abbeys and the awe-inspiring medieval architecture of Europe, Shroyer paints women of the ages on a journey through time and place. Often with animals at their sides, these figures are much more than a painting--they tell a story of women’s historical and emotional passages through time. Her widely collected abstracts are also featured. Shroyer’s work has been described as coming from a place within and likened to the "feel and composition of an early Diebenkorn, during his Albuquerque series." (Werenko and Coombs, "Kaleidoscope," 2008).

Shroyer’s journey into the art world has been an unlikely one given her early education resulting in a B.A. in French and a Ph.D. in special education, language and learning disorders. A trip to the Columbus Museum of Art as a youngster where she viewed the work of George Bellows and a college requirement for an elementary education methods class planted the seeds of fine art, but it was not until 40 years later that a serendipitous trip to Taos committed her to being an artist.

The online exhibit of Shroyer’s work launched on March 8, International Women’s Day, widely celebrated in Italy and other parts of the world, may be seen at www.ARTROMgallery.com . Shroyer exhibits at Open Space Gallery and Blumenschein Studio Gallery in Taos as well as other national galleries.

 

 

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