Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado to Host Talented New Mexico Artisans for Santa Fe Artist in Residence Program

Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado, a spectacular all-season destination offering luxury, discovery and adventure in the Land Of Enchantment, announces the launch of the Artist in Residence program in collaboration with TOURISM Santa Fe.  The Resort will host five talented New Mexico-based artists for residency over the next few months from November 2018 to February 2019.  Each artist brings a unique perspective and form of art to the Resort, from photography to sculptures and more.

“Given our location in the heart of Santa Fe where creativity is not only celebrated, but embraced by residents and visitors alike, we’re thrilled to launch our Artists in Residence program,” says Bixente Perry, the Hotel’s General Manager.  “By collaborating with TOURISM Santa Fe, we have curated a great lineup of really talented artists to take residency at Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado, and we look forward to providing guests exclusive access to the artists and their creative process.”

The Artist in Residence program offers visitors an immersive art experience by connecting them with New Mexico artists during their stay at Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado. Visitors can meet and interact with the artists and witness their masterpieces in the making – experiencing first hand their creative process.

Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado Santa Fe will host the following artists in residence during the program:

Cheri O’Brien

American contemporary narrative artist Cheri O’Brien is a Pacific Northwest native, and self-taught artist since the age of five.  Creating singular works of art, O’Brien’s seemingly casual aesthetic shifts emphasis from outrageous and funky to tender and charming.  Re-creating childlike images with recurring motifs such as dogs, stuffed animals, flowers and religious iconography, O’Brien attempts to understand her world with finding humour in beauty and the beauty of humour.  At first glance, her colourful, narrative oil paintings seem to be whimsical reflections of her surroundings, family and several muses.  A closer look reveals the layers of meaning, sometimes melancholic, other times, joyful.

Cheri O’Brien will be staying at the Resort November 16-18, 2018 and her schedule of events is as follows:

• Friday, November 16, 2018 - Live Demo 4:00–7:00 pm
• Saturday, November 17, 2018 - Live Demo 9:00–11:00 am
• Sunday, November 18, 2018 - Live Demo 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Janet O’Neal

Janet O’Neal has become renowned throughout the country for her dynamic one-of-a-kind works.  As a thirty-two-year veteran of the art scene, O’Neal’s work has received critical acclaim in festivals and exhibitions throughout the country. Prestigious art galleries and top publishing companies represent her, including the publisher Editions Limited, one of the top four publishers of fine art in the country.

Her works include paintings, mixed media assemblages, photography and sculpture; however, she is most famous for her energetic abstract works and multimedia assemblages. Some of the most current work revolves around photography, traditional digital photographs and mixed media works where photography is the dominant media.  She has travelled to Israel, Jamaica and India the past several years photographing people and places for her new art.  She has won 2nd place and two honourable mentions in the prestigious Georgia O’Keefe Museum’s International Photography Competition, First Place in the 2014 New Mexico Magazine’s Photography competition, 2nd place in The International WPGA Pollux Photography Awards, and is a finalist in the Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Competition.

Janet O’Neal will be staying at the Resort December 14-16, 2018, and her schedule of events is as follows:

• Friday, December 14, 2018 - Live Demo 4:00–7:00 pm
• Saturday, December 15, 2018 - Live Demo 9:00–11:00 am
• Sunday, December 16, 2018 - Live Demo 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Roberta Parry

Roberta Parry’s strong yet lyrical paintings reflect her affinity for watercolour and the impact on her work of light and colour. As she says, “I love the spontaneity of watercolour, its freedom of flow, the surprises, and the challenge to master or at least control the independence of its gentle yet willful nature. I do still lifes now and then, but I am particularly attracted to landscapes. Colour and light are the elements that most strike my sensuous core, and transparent watercolour seems to best capture for me the vibrancy and translucence of sky, earth, water, and all that grows and travels therein. I may know where I want to go, but getting there is always an adventure.”

Parry studied art at the University of Arizona in Tucson, from which she graduated with a degree in elementary education, and at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.

Roberta Parry will be staying at the Resort January 4-6, 2019, and her schedule of events is as follows:

• Friday, January 4, 2019 - Live Demo 4:00–7:00 pm
• Saturday, January 5, 2019 - Live Demo 9:00–11:00 am
• Sunday, January 6, 2019 - Live Demo 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Sean Mary Helen Johnson

Sean Mary Helen Johnson holds a Bachelor degree in English and History and graduated with honours. She is an artist, writer, and photographer. She values the creative in all its aspects, whether making something, exploring, walking, or just being. She is interested in social justice, peace, reverence, gratitude, critical thinking skills, stories and symbols, ritual, food as medicine and other healing modalities. She is insatiably curious and committed to life-long learning.

Sean Mary Helen Johnson will be staying at the Resort January 11-13, 2019, and her schedule of events is as follows:

• Friday, January 11, 2019 - Live Demo 4:00–7:00 pm
• Saturday, January 12, 2019 - Live Demo 9:00–11:00 am
• Sunday, January 13, 2019 - Live Demo 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Irene Owsley

The fusion of wilderness, rugged landscape, adventure, and geography is what drives photographer Irene Owsley. She studies maps with intensity. First comes exploration and immersion in the outdoors – often involving a tripod, pack and tent – and then contemplation of form and light, how they come together to present a palette of subtle or dramatic but undeniable beauty. For Owsley, just the experience of being in the natural elements precedes the impetus to express it with film or pixels.

Irene is known for her panoramas using a tripod head specially machined to allow one to accurately pan across a scene. She captures single vertical frames that are then stitched together in Photoshop by masking seams and matching elements from one image to the next. Irene and her work on panoramas have been featured in such publications as Rangefinder, Photographer’s Forum, and Nikon World magazine and hangs on the walls in private homes, offices and the National Institutes of Health in the Washington DC area.

Irene is also drawn to explore northern extremes – Iceland, Greenland, Alaska and Arctic Canada – a passion that has expanded her library of stock images for publication. Her work has appeared in such magazines as Canoe & Kayak, Sierra, National Parks, Earthwatch, and Natural History as well as in publications of The National Forest Foundation, The Wilderness Society, The Potomac Conservancy and The Natural Resources Defense Council.

Irene Owsley will be staying at the Resort February 8-10, 2018, and her schedule of events is as follows:

• Friday, February 8, 2018 - Live Demo 4:00–7:00 pm
• Saturday, February 9, 2018 - Live Demo 9:00–11:00 am
• Sunday, February 10, 2018 - Live Demo 10:00 am – 1:00 pm