Born in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Joan Fenicle came to New Mexico in the 1970s and has made her home in Placitas, NM since the late 1990s. After years in the business world, she now works full time in the arts — coordinating the monthly ArtsCrawl events with the Albuquerque galleries, as photo editor for AlbuquerqueARTS Magazine, as a member of the women’s art collective Rainbow Artists, and in her “Wild About Horses” art studio here in Placitas. Life doesn’t get much better than this!

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"Star Cave"
11” x 14” oil on canvas

"Santuary"

8 x 10" giclee on etching paper from altered photo

"Madrid"
8 x 16" giclee on etching paper from altered photo

Fenicle says:

"I have drawn and painted since I was a child. I have no formal art education but have studied at the hand of several professional painters such as Ted Hogsett of Albuquerque and Michael McGuire of Santa Fe. Although I have worked with watercolor, acrylic and pastel, oil is my medium of preference because it gives me the ability to build up layers of semi-transparent color and add a feeling of light to my landscapes. Photography until recently was simply a tool for gathering material for paintings, but I now use some of my photographs as art — scanning old slides or taking new digital images, reworking the subjects until the composition and colors suit me, applying various filters to produce an entirely new product. Some of these images are from 30+ year old slides and represent a view into our past."