The Taos Historic Museums announces a solo exhibition, 'Mountain of the Watchful Heart', featuring the paintings of renowned Australian artist Jo Bertini. The exhibition will be on view at the E.L. Blumenschein Home and Museum, 222 Ledoux St., Taos, New Mexico.
The high desert lands of Taos and the American Southwest have long attracted Indigenous peoples, explorers, pilgrims and artists. The historical version of deserts as harsh, inhospitable places to be conquered or exploited is well chronicled in the Western canon. Yet there is another mostly underrepresented version which interests me. There is a gentle benevolence to these lands, a feminine quality and an atmosphere of acceptance. There is a peacefulness and serenity in their beauty, a sense of openness and nurturing that lives in the wildness here.
