When my Michigan visitors were here I took them to DeGrazia Gallery In the Sun, which I consider a jewel in our desert. There I found another jewel -- etched glass artist Madeline Gallego Thorpe.
Gallery In the Sun features rotating guest artists, and Madeline was one of them. I fell in love with her delicate goblets that she etched with her interpretations of our Southwest petroglyphs found on ancient rocks.
I bought these two, etched with flowing dancing figures, musical notes, spirals that she said keep the good spirits in, stars, jewelry.
I've been using them exclusively for my iced tea and water, and they make me happy just looking at them. If I drank wine, which I don't, I think the colors would be glorious.
This is the inside of the visiting artists' gallery, which Madeline shared with painter Don Carter. (Their show ends today.)
Don's vibrant acrylic, oil and watercolors bring to life the energy of our beautiful desert and its wildlife. Don wasn't there, but his wife said he's 91 and still paints four hours a day. His website is: www.doncarterfineart.com. (Madeline doesn't have a website, but her email is madelinegallegothorpe@gmail.com.)
Here's the original artist -- Ted DeGrazia, who built his compound in the Santa Catalina Mountain foothills in Tucson from materials from the land -- dirt for adobe bricks, rocks, yucca and ocotillo stalks, cholla and saguaro skeletons ...
The compound includes his home, above, a small chapel, a large gallery of his work and the Little Gallery for visiting artists.
I think the views from the windows are like paintings.
The 10-acre site is lush, despite being in the desert, and every time I go I notice something I overlooked before. Definitely visit it if you're ever in Tucson!
Have a colorful day
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