Featured artist
Bren Price
New Mexico, USA
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- Offer workshops/classes
- Offer workshops/classes
Specialty Categories
Painting/Drawing - Landscape
Walking Rain Over Pedernal
Water Media on D'Arches 140lb HP 22 x 30 inches |
Pedernal After Dark
Acrylic on Canvas 16 x 20 inches |
Pedernal Moon
Water Media on D'Arches 140lb HP 22 x 30 inches |
Painting/Drawing - Figurative/People
Bali Girl with Floral Headdress
Acrylic on Canvas 24 x 18 inches |
China Empress
Watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb HP 96 x 48 inches |
Green Empress
Watercolor on D'Arches 140 lb HP 30 x 22 Inches |
Painting/Drawing - Abstract
Aspen Speak
Acrylic on Canvas 48 x 48 inches |
St Francis of Asissi, Ranchos de Taos
Water Media on D'Arches 140lb HP 22 x 30 inches |
Taos Drumtalk
48 x 48 Inches |
Artist Statement/Bio
My art career has taken me around the world as teacher and student, and early on, I worked at an ad agency in Chicago. My work is part of public and private collections here as well as abroad. My book, Inside the Wind, is about change, inspired by the ever present wind on the Llano Estacado where I was born and spent the whole of my childhood with freedom to roam in the physical as well as in the spiritual sense. I have lived in Taos since 1983 and enjoy the big sky country of New Mexico.
About her work, Bren reflects, “For me, the freedom of going into another realm where there are no rules, no boundaries, just that oneness of being in process with the creation, is what being an artist is about. . . I want viewers to become such a part of my work that they are filled with questions, not answers; that they must interpret what is there, and that they will find something in my work that is theirs alone – a journey of discovery.”
She has been painting for over forty-five years and continues to hone her craft. Bren paints in many styles and mediums but for the most part her work is done in watercolor and is expressionistic in nature. Sometimes her work is straightforward in its meaning and other times it is like a riddle unfolded for the viewer.
Exhibitions:
32 solo shows since 1981
Taos Today, Artists of Taos, Taos Invites Taos, Discover Hollywood, 25-year retrospective
Education:
West Texas State U., Texas Tech University, Class of ‘67
Louisiana Tech University, 1978-2003 Continuing Ed.
Art Teacher:
Hurst-Euless-Bedford, TX
Rogers Middle School, OKC
Taos Valley School, Taos
Oklahoma Museum of Art, OKC
Consultant, Teacher; India, Bhutan, Morocco, China, Bali/Java Encounters
Galleries:
Gallery at Touchstone is her showplace in Taos
Scharf Gallery and Gallery Nussbaumer, Santa Fe, NM
Barnes & Boughton, Oklahoma City
Lutz Bergerson, Taos
D S Lawrence Gallery, Taos
Michael McCormick, Taos
Gallery Rodeo, Taos / Los Angeles
The Red Room, LA
Introspection seldom allowed the viewer trademarks her style evident in the expressionistic series ‘Oriental Women’
Book: Inside the Wind, prose-poetry and paintings, demonstrates her philosophy, “I believe creative expression is the pathway to human liberation.”
Past Pres. Okla. Watercolor Society
Charter Member - Natl. Museum of Women in the Arts, DC
Member: Taos National Watercolor Society
Past Board Member - Taos Medical Services Foundation
Included in Publications:
American Art Collector, 2006, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11,12, 13, 14, 15, 16
New Mexico Millennium Collection, Vol II
Taos Magazine
American Artists Magazine
Watercolor Edition Spring 1996
USA Today, Art Talk, Art Space, Artlines, Santa Fe Profile, Art Gallery International, American Artists Leading Contemporaries, Taos Calendar, Frontier Airlines Magazine, The New Mexican, The Taos News Tempo, Times Weekend, American Artists of Renown, Art in America, International Book of Honor, Who's Who In America, 2001-11 . Who's Who, 2002-11; Cambridge Who’s Who, 08
Appearances:
Today Show, Great Wall, China. East Meets West PBS, Suzanne Bernadette Radio Show, Albuquerque.
Travels and Studies: Morocco, China, India, Bali, Java, Borneo, Europe, Bhutan, Thailand, Mexico, Honduras
Member: Taos Chamber of Commerce, Taos Gallery Association, Taos Bed & Breakfast Assoc., Taos County
Lodgers Assoc., New Mexico Lodgers Assoc., New Mexico B&B Assoc., Professional Assoc. Innkeepers International, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
My art career has taken me around the world as teacher and student, and early on, I worked at an ad agency in Chicago. My work is part of public and private collections here as well as abroad. My book, Inside the Wind, is about change, inspired by the ever present wind on the Llano Estacado where I was born and spent the whole of my childhood with freedom to roam in the physical as well as in the spiritual sense. I have lived in Taos since 1983 and enjoy the big sky country of New Mexico.
About her work, Bren reflects, “For me, the freedom of going into another realm where there are no rules, no boundaries, just that oneness of being in process with the creation, is what being an artist is about. . . I want viewers to become such a part of my work that they are filled with questions, not answers; that they must interpret what is there, and that they will find something in my work that is theirs alone – a journey of discovery.”
She has been painting for over forty-five years and continues to hone her craft. Bren paints in many styles and mediums but for the most part her work is done in watercolor and is expressionistic in nature. Sometimes her work is straightforward in its meaning and other times it is like a riddle unfolded for the viewer.
Exhibitions:
32 solo shows since 1981
Taos Today, Artists of Taos, Taos Invites Taos, Discover Hollywood, 25-year retrospective
Education:
West Texas State U., Texas Tech University, Class of ‘67
Louisiana Tech University, 1978-2003 Continuing Ed.
Art Teacher:
Hurst-Euless-Bedford, TX
Rogers Middle School, OKC
Taos Valley School, Taos
Oklahoma Museum of Art, OKC
Consultant, Teacher; India, Bhutan, Morocco, China, Bali/Java Encounters
Galleries:
Gallery at Touchstone is her showplace in Taos
Scharf Gallery and Gallery Nussbaumer, Santa Fe, NM
Barnes & Boughton, Oklahoma City
Lutz Bergerson, Taos
D S Lawrence Gallery, Taos
Michael McCormick, Taos
Gallery Rodeo, Taos / Los Angeles
The Red Room, LA
Introspection seldom allowed the viewer trademarks her style evident in the expressionistic series ‘Oriental Women’
Book: Inside the Wind, prose-poetry and paintings, demonstrates her philosophy, “I believe creative expression is the pathway to human liberation.”
Past Pres. Okla. Watercolor Society
Charter Member - Natl. Museum of Women in the Arts, DC
Member: Taos National Watercolor Society
Past Board Member - Taos Medical Services Foundation
Included in Publications:
American Art Collector, 2006, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11,12, 13, 14, 15, 16
New Mexico Millennium Collection, Vol II
Taos Magazine
American Artists Magazine
Watercolor Edition Spring 1996
USA Today, Art Talk, Art Space, Artlines, Santa Fe Profile, Art Gallery International, American Artists Leading Contemporaries, Taos Calendar, Frontier Airlines Magazine, The New Mexican, The Taos News Tempo, Times Weekend, American Artists of Renown, Art in America, International Book of Honor, Who's Who In America, 2001-11 . Who's Who, 2002-11; Cambridge Who’s Who, 08
Appearances:
Today Show, Great Wall, China. East Meets West PBS, Suzanne Bernadette Radio Show, Albuquerque.
Travels and Studies: Morocco, China, India, Bali, Java, Borneo, Europe, Bhutan, Thailand, Mexico, Honduras
Member: Taos Chamber of Commerce, Taos Gallery Association, Taos Bed & Breakfast Assoc., Taos County
Lodgers Assoc., New Mexico Lodgers Assoc., New Mexico B&B Assoc., Professional Assoc. Innkeepers International, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
Gallery Representation & Exhibition Schedule
Gallery at Touchstone
110 Mabel Dodge Lane
Taos, NM 87571
575-758-0192
110 Mabel Dodge Lane
Taos, NM 87571
575-758-0192
Workshops/Classes Offered