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The Moon Behind by Victoria Taylor-Gore

The Moon Behind by Victoria Taylor-Gore "The Moon Behind " is a small pastel for my Christmas show at Alexandra Stevens Gallery in Santa Fe. This landscape feature the moon above the trees as all the forms seem to gather around and direct the viewer's eye to the rising moon.

House Up the Road by Victoria Taylor-Gore

House Up the Road by Victoria Taylor-Gore "House Up the Road " is another pastel for my Christmas show at Alexandra Stevens Gallery in Santa Fe. This medium sized pastel has two houses, one warm and one cool. There is a sense of deep space between the houses, and once again, the road connects them. The houses are softly lit up by a far away moon in a deep night sky.

The Tree in Front by Victoria Taylor-Gore

The Tree in Front by Victoria Taylor-Gore "The Tree in Front " is a medium sized pastel for my Christmas show at Alexandra Stevens Gallery in Santa Fe. This night scene has a large tree on a hill in front of a dark house with the moon softly illuminating the landscape. The road swings around the hill, symbolizing the journey through life.

Near the Boat - Pastel by Victoria Taylor-Gore

Near the Boat by Victoria Taylor-Gore "Near the Boat " is another small pastel landscape for my Christmas show at Alexandra Stevens Gallery in Santa Fe. This pastel features a close up view of the boat on a hill overlooking a house below, with another small house off in the distance.

Room Inside - New Oil by Victoria Taylor-Gore

Room Inside (oil) by Victoria Taylor-Gore "Room Inside " is an oil interior for my Christmas show at Alexandra Stevens Gallery in Santa Fe. This full color interior has several paintings within the painting - a black and white painting in the "Passages" series on the blue wall and a small painting of a woman on the dark wall in the left foreground - much easier to do this delicate detail in oil than in pastel. The room stretches out giving the viewer a sense of depth, and the open door opens up into another landscape beyond. I loved doing this image in oil.

New Oil Painting by Victoria Taylor-Gore

Boat Below (oil) by Victoria Taylor-Gore "Boat Below" (another new work for my Christmas show) is an oil - one of a few new oils for my Christmas show at Alexandra Stevens Gallery in Santa Fe. I have not done oils for 12 years - and now I remember how hard they are to photograph! This painting is a little richer and has more contrast than this photgraph of it. I am very excited about doing new oils. The challenge has always been to give them the same richness that my pastels have, but still do a good painting. Paintings are just different that pastels - they have a unique surface that is glossier than that deep matt surface of a pastel, but they are what they are, and they have a richness all their own. See the announcement about my show in Southwest Art Magazine

Beyond the Curtain by Victoria Taylor-Gore

Beyond the Curtain by Victoria Taylor-Gore This is a new pastel for my Christmas show in Santa Fe (at Alexandra Stevens Gallery). "Beyond the Curtain" has a surreal composition with the Magritte style curtain in the foreground that introduces the viewer to a dream like reality, and invites the viewer to put this image into their own imaginative context...what kind of space it this - a stage with props? A giant curtain in a landscape? You are left to decide.