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Carla Romero, a self-taught artist has been
drawing since she was a young child and painting for over 25
years.
Born in Colorado, Romero feels a
strong connection to mountains, nature and wildlife; but also a
bond with the Native Americans and the southwest. Her ancestors
are from Northern New Mexico and her great grandmother is of
Acoma Pueblo
heritage, which defines her love for painting pueblo scenes. In
1987 she visited the Taos Pueblo for the first time, which was an
awakening of her art and vision and launched her pursuit of a
professional career. Since then, Romero has achieved much
acclaim as a painter of the southwest.
She paints mainly in watercolor, but also
works with acrylics on canvas. Romero's extraordinary and bold
usage of color is clearly only one of the defining elements that
one might use in describing the feeling and emotion that her
work evokes. Her paintings are exhibited in fine art galleries
throughout Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, North Carolina and
Montana.
Romero and her paintings have also been the
subject of many magazine and newspaper articles. Her work has
been on the covers of High Plains Literary Review, Taos Magazine and
New Mexico Traveler, etc. She was also
selected as the featured artist for Legacy Art Albuquerque in
2006, succeeding Amado Pena, Dave McGary, JD Challenger and Tom
Wheeler. Because of the great demand for her work, her paintings
and limited edition prints are highly collectable and are part
of commercial and private collections throughout the United States
and abroad.
An important facet of Romero's work is her
strong belief that her ideas and creativity are gifts from God.
She starts each painting with a prayer and ends with an
expression of thanks, therefore there is a deep spiritual
awareness that one discovers in her work.
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