Category Archives: Happenings

The Masterworks Class I taught for New Mexico Watercolor Society a couple of weeks ago was outstanding. The workshop chairmen, Kathy Arneberg and Fran Krukar were excellent planners, arrangers and helpers. Dave Collis ran the camera set-up which projected what … Continue reading →

On Sunday, March 18 I will give a demonstration of my creative process for the West Texas Watercolor Society headquartered in Lubbock. It will be at the Louise H. Underwood Center for the Arts: 511 Avenue K. Their meeting starts … Continue reading →

  INNOVATIVE WATERMEDIA andCOLLAGE HELEN GWINN, INSTRUCTOR APRIL 11, 12, 13  in Albuquerque, NM at EXPO NEW MEXICO(which is the State Fairgrounds) This class will be a delightful, experimental, creative, innovative approach to developing a watermedia painting or a mixed-media … Continue reading →

The Weems International Artfest was superb, the art exhibited there gets better every year. Many of the top artists in the Southwest participate: Chris Morel, Kristin DeSantis, Dan Stouffer, B.C. Nowlin, Russ Ball, Sarah Blumenshein, Fermin Hernandez etc. etc. Some … Continue reading →

Twenty three years! It’s hard to believe but I’ve been showing my works of art at the Weems International Artfest for twenty three years!  An amazing range of emotions and experiences fill that history. Frustration, exhilaration, joy, madness, delight, sadness, … Continue reading →

The dedicated painters in the Art For Soul Critique Group in Albuquerque meet monthly to share their works-in-progress, and discuss ways to make them better. They have a very special camaraderie. As I critiqued with them they wanted to hear … Continue reading →

My watermedia painting “Taking Flight” is on the cover of the current New Mexico Bar Bulletin. A small blurb about me and the fact that I’m represented by the Weems Galleries in Albuquerque, New Mexico is just inside the issue. … Continue reading →

My brain ruts were flattened and smoothed by a handsel from Chinati on Saturday, April 23, 2011, the forty-third birthday of my daughter.  She was on the Gulf Coast celebrating and I was in the Chihuahan Desert of South-Southwest Texas,  … Continue reading →

One of my paintings, “Let’s Talk” is on the cover of the current New Mexico Bar Bulletin, a publication of the New Mexico Bar Association. You can see a good reproduction of the painting on my website: Paintings page. “Let’s … Continue reading →