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Enchanted Paintings of New Mexico

Southwest watercolor paintings inspired by New Mexico—from Santa Fe to Taos and Albuquerque—capturing the region’s color, light, and character.

These works mark an early chapter in my journey, leading to my luminous landscape art in Sedona.

Explore colorful Southwest watercolor paintings and fine art prints inspired by place and light.

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  • Monday's a Adobe building on Canyon Road in Santa Fe with turquoise doors, warm stucco walls, and soft desert light.

    Monday’s – A Watercolor Memory from Canyon Road in Santa Fe

    Price range: $69 through $2,309
  • 1001 Nights. A watercolor painting of a sunlit Santa Fe courtyard scene with adobe walls, a vintage wagon, and bright turquoise windows against warm earthy tones

    1001 Nights – Enchanting Santa Fe Courtyard

    Price range: $69 through $2,309
  • Watercolor painting of a stylized hummingbird in mid-flight with vibrant orange and yellow tones against a soft abstract background

    Sunbird – A Southwest Watercolor Born from Serendipity

    Price range: $69 through $1,019
  • Pueblo Mission a Watercolor painting of a historic adobe mission building with textured earth-toned walls, wooden doors, and surrounding desert landscape under soft natural light

    Pueblo Mission – A Watercolor Exploration of Faith, Texture, and Place

    Price range: $69 through $1,019
  • San Ysidro a watercolor painting of a historic adobe structure with textured earth tones, wooden beams, and surrounding desert vegetation under soft natural light

    San Ysidro – A Watercolor Study in Faith, Light, and Restraint

    Price range: $69 through $1,019
  • Sandoval Snow a watercolor painting of snow-covered desert bushes and rocks beneath a cloudy sky with soft muted tones and layered washes of winter landscape

    Sandoval Snow – A Watercolor Variation of Faith and Winter Light

    Price range: $69 through $1,019
  • Transient Sky a watercolor painting of layered clouds and shifting sky colors over a serene landscape with soft washes and glowing light

    Transient Sky – A Watercolor Where Color and Sky Take the Lead

    Price range: $69 through $1,019
  • Navajo Palapa a watercolor painting of a rustic palapa structure with wooden posts and thatched roof set among desert vegetation and warm natural light

    Navajo Palapa – A Watercolor Study of Shelter, Color, and Open Land

    Price range: $69 through $1,019
  • Santa Clara Pueblo a watercolor painting of traditional Pueblo adobe structures with textured earth walls and clustered buildings under a wide southwestern sky

    Santa Clara Pueblo – A Watercolor of Shadow, Structure, and Quiet Continuity

    Price range: $69 through $1,019
  • Taos Pueblo a watercolor painting of multi-story adobe pueblo buildings with textured earth tones under a bright southwestern sky

    Taos Pueblo – A Watercolor Reflection on Culture, Rhythm, and Place

    Price range: $69 through $1,019
  • Taos Vigas a watercolor painting of rustic wooden vigas projecting from an adobe wall with textured earth tones and warm natural light

    Taos Vigas – A Watercolor Study of Structure, Rhythm, and Continuity

    Price range: $69 through $1,019
  • San Miguel Mission a watercolor adobe mission church with cross, blue sky, curved wall, and tree in watercolor style

    San Miguel Mission – A Watercolor of Santa Fe’s Historic Charm

    Price range: $69 through $1,019

New Mexico Paintings Inspired by the Land and Culture

New Mexico has a character all its own. From the adobe architecture of Santa Fe and Taos to historic pueblos, missions, mountains, and brilliant Southwestern skies, the landscape gave me an entirely different collection of subjects to explore.

My New Mexico paintings reflect the color, architecture, history, and quiet beauty I discovered throughout the state. Many of these works were created in watercolor during an earlier chapter of my artistic journey, when I was developing the approach to color and Southwest landscapes that continues to influence my work today.

From Santa Fe to Taos

Santa Fe and Taos offered an extraordinary combination of natural beauty and distinctive architecture. Adobe walls, weathered vigas, old missions, pueblos, and the changing New Mexico light gave me subjects that seemed made for watercolor.

Paintings such as Taos Pueblo,Santa Clara Pueblo, San Miguel Mission, and Monday’s, based on a scene along Canyon Road in Santa Fe, each capture a different part of my experience with New Mexico. Together, they became part of my continuing exploration of the Southwest—not simply as places to reproduce, but as places to interpret through color.

An Earlier Chapter of My Artistic Journey

These New Mexico watercolor paintings also provide a glimpse into how my work has evolved.

Long before fluorescent acrylics, patterned skies, and paintings that glow under black light became part of my style, watercolor taught me to think about transparency, light, contrast, and especially color.

Looking back at these paintings today, I can see the beginnings of ideas that eventually found their way into the vivid Southwest landscapes I create now.

The Land of Enchantment

There is a reason New Mexico is called the Land of Enchantment. Its combination of landscape, culture, history, architecture, and extraordinary light has inspired generations of artists.

For me, these paintings preserve my own encounters with that remarkable place and another chapter in the journey that eventually brought me to Sedona.

Continue the Journey

Explore my Southwest Watercolor Paintings to discover more of my earlier watercolor work, or visit my Sedona Landscape Paintings to see how my interpretation of the Southwest has evolved.

You can also Go Behind the Canvas to discover more about my artistic journey, painting process, and the experiences that have shaped my work.