PEGGY IMMEL

Taos, New Mexico

Peggy Immel is an award-winning artist whose works have been featured in exhibitions across the country. Her educational background includes architectural studies at Arizona State University and classes at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the DeCordova Museum School, and the Silvermine Arts Center. She is a member of Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, Plein Air Artists Colorado, and Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters. Most recently, Peggy’s work won the Best of Signature Members Award at the 2020 Plein Air Artists Colorado National Juried Exhibition and the Award of Excellence at the 2018 Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters “Plein Air for the Park” at Grand Teton National Park. Her work has been showcased in Santa Fean Magazine, Plein Air Magazine, Southwest Art, and Art of the West Magazine.

2020 felt as though it would never end. And, if there is poetry to be found in the year of the pandemic it would appear in the metaphor of an eternal winter. I love the gorgeous light that envelops the canyon at the beginning and end of each day, tied to the rise and fall of the sun.

A Long December was painted one year after the beginning of our national hibernation and portrays the canyon from the South Rim Trail looking north towards Bright Angel Point at sunset, in winter, blanketed in snow.

A Long December | 24x36, oil