Ocotillo Blossom 8 x 10 (SOLD)
"Forest Flare" 12 x 16
5 O'Clock Shadow
"Sunset Swirl" 12 x 16
"Taos Gorge" 9 x 12
"Flower Power" 12 x 16 (SOLD)
"Chama River" 9 x 16
"Broken Dreams" 12 x 16
"Head in the Clouds"24 x 18
"Chama Tracks" 9 x 12 (SOLD)
"NM 104" 11 x 14 (SOLD)
"Early Bird" 16 x 20
"Walt's Place" 12 x 16
"Splash!" 9 x 12
"Fire and Ice" 20 x 10
"Fire on the Mountain" 20 x 10
"Navajo Lands" 20 x 10
"Desert Dusk" 20 x 16
"Komorebi Morning" 16 x 12 (Sold)
"October Morning in Albuquerque 2" 20 x 16
"Moon River" 20 x 16 (Sold)
"Orange Monsoon" 16 x 12 (Sold)
"Unbridled" 20 x 10
"Light in the West" 16 x 12
"Sanguine" 18 x 12
"Somewhere Out On That Horizon" 18 x 12 (Sold)
"White Sands Dragon" 16 x 9 (Sold)
"Rainbow's Gold" 24 x 18
"December Sun" 16 x 12
"Desert Glow" 9 x 16
“But A Moment’s Sunlight” (SOLD)
“Thistle Dew” 14 x 20
“Cascade” 12 × 16
“Red Rock Dawn!” 10 × 20 (SOLD)
“Sandia Saguaro” 12 × 16
“Taos Blues” 9 x 12 (SOLD)
“John Ford Slept Here 2” 11 x 14 (SOLD)
“Long In The Horn” 11 x 14
“Life is a Highway” 10 × 20
John DeSpain lives and works in Placitas, New Mexico.
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Back Stories
This is “John Ford Slept Here 2”, a pastel painting from a trip to Monument Valley. It was after a rare rain, and I wanted to invoke the light streaming across the rugged landscape that director Ford captured in the many classic westerns he filmed here.
“Saints Preserve Us!”, a pastel painting of a curious structure we encountered near Chacon, NM. It was standing alone just off the road surrounded by overgrown grass, and it looked to be quite old. What is it exactly - a church, a cabin, a storage shed? New Mexico True.
“Villanueva Fixer” - This great old building is across the street from the general store in ‘downtown’ Villanueva, NM. I started this one in a workshop by Nancie King Mertz, a renowned pastel artist, and finished it in my home studio. I like how the tin roof came out!