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Year Of The Rabbit
By Odessa Sawyer
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Odessa Sawyer is an illustrator and doll maker from Santa Fe, where she lives with her husband, mom and two sons. Her artwork appears in and on the covers of middle-grade and young adult books; ad campaigns; posters; and film and television projects as well as album covers. Archive published her work as one of the 200 best illustrators worldwide for 2011 and 2014, and she won the 2019 best cover award in fiction in the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.
Shedding Skin
By Matthew Cruickshank
“It is a place, it’s Santa Fe—my initial reaction to moving here,” says artist and traditional 2D animator Matthew Cruickshank, who is about a month and change into his move to New Mexico following time in San Francisco and his homeland of England. “Shedding Skin,” an oil painting, signals what Cruickshank hopes will be a transition to a more traditional painting practice. “I was seeing snakes on the land, and the idea was changing to take on the land, to shed your skin,” he continues. “The more you look, the more you’ll see snake patterns, the interchanging of color and harsh lines where something stops and begins again—the shape of a snake. That’s how I felt, like I’d shed my own skin and manifested into something new.” Find more from Cruickshank on Instagram at @santafecruickshank.
BUTT IS IT ART?
By Christopher Stoll
Santa Fe-based illustrator Christopher Stoll is dedicated to the exploration and creation of fictional worlds and has written multiple self-published sci-fi fantasy books. Stoll prefers to work digitally, designing visual and narrative experiences that immerse viewers in fictional spaces.
By Christopher Zappe
On The Shore
By Carolyn Patten
Carolyn Patten says she works from images she has photographed and others that appear in her dreams. She layers transparent and opaque paints and specially mixed glazes to create harmony and depth and edits out all but the most potent details, giving the work room to breathe and connect with the viewer. As she moves deeper into the work, the images become more abstract, working with
