PEGGY IMMEL Taos, New Mexico
Peggy Immel is an award-winning artist whose works have been featured in exhibitions throughout 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 Master Signature member of Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, a Signature Member of Plein Air Artists Colorado, and a Signature Member of American Women Artists. Most recently, Peggy’s work received the Best of Show Trustees Award at the 2022 Millicent Rogers Museum Annual Miniature Exhibition in Taos, NM and First Place in the 2021 Sedona Plein Air Festival in Sedona, AZ. Her work has been showcased in Santa Fean Magazine, Plein Air Magazine, Southwest Art, and Art of the West Magazine.
There is a special vista in the Grand Canyon along the trail just west of Yavapai Point where people gather nightly to watch the sunset. One evening last year I watched it from that place, wondering how many eyes have seen the sun go down from this exact spot, how many souls have had this grand theatrical experience. An old juniper has been standing at that same place for hundreds of years watching daily sunsets long before the Kolb brothers built their studio, in fact, probably long before the colonists landed at Plymouth Rock. These ancient junipers and the canyon itself are reminders that time is relative. It passes in an instant and an eternity.
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