News- Valerie Graves will be featured at Wilder Nightingale Fine Art Gallery, Taos, NM in a special Three Person Show
during the Taos Fall Arts Festival. You are invited to the opening reception Saturday October 1.
Wilder Nightingale Fine Art was voted People's Choice for Best Gallery again in 2011, the second year in a row. Congratulations!
Graves will also have three paintings on display in the Taos Select Show at the Taos Fall Arts Festival
Valerie Graves is a Master Painter of landscapes, capturing the special light and essence of the mountains,
sagebrush mesas and valleys of the Southwest.
Many have said that her remarkably sensitive and beautiful work is extremely reminiscent of the very best of the early Taos Founder paintings.
Few artists have earned that praise.
Valerie Graves was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for Fine Art at the prestigious Taos Invites Taos Show
at the Fall Arts Festival by the Taos Medical Services Foundation who sponsors the highly acclaimed show.
She joins R.C. Gorman and Agnes Martin in receiving that special honor.
She has won the Best Traditional Painting Award for seven years now - along with two Best In Show Awards in addition to numerous awards
in other shows nationwide, She is included in many private and museum collections throughout the country.
Valerie loves New Mexico, the land and light and culture, and she loves animals, birds and wildlife.
She donates a good deal of her time and artistic efforts to
help animals inlcuding Equine Spirit Sanctuary in Taos, the Donkey Sanctuary of Canada and others.
She is a member of the Friends of the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, National Audubon Society,
and numerous helpful bird-oriented organizations, and is an amateur birdwatcher.
Her art collectors primarily purchase purchase her wonderful landscapes,
but she loves painting birds and wildlife and will often donate those paintings (and others)
to help worthy organizations.
Taos, New Mexico artist, Valerie Graves has a wonderful selection of original paintings available at
Wilder Nightingale Fine Art in Taos and a fine selection of signed
prints, cards and more available at the Carson House Shop in Taos
We have signed prints for sale here, too. Please click to see
what is available (updated September 15, 2011) We offer secure payment through PayPal where you can use your own credit card or PayPal account for purchases)
Valerie Graves is currently included in the atttractive and informative book,
"Landscapes of New Mexico," published by Fresco Fine Art Publications. New Mexico's top landscape painters are showcased
in the book. Contact Valerie Graves Art at e-mail us to find out how to order an artist signed copy of the book.
Special! New soft-cover, full-color book,
"Magical Seasons of New Mexico, Paintings by Valerie Graves." (at left)
"This is a wonderful book for anyone who loves New Mexico in all of her magnificent seasons,
and for anyone who admires Valerie Graves and her exceptional ability to capture the light and color
of our beautiful state."
Please click here
for further information on this book.
New Mexico Rainstorm © 2008 Valerie Graves
Graves was featured in the nationwide
traveling Exhibition, the Horse In Fine Art by the American Academy of Equine Art.
The Exhibition was held at the Wildlife Experience in Parker, Colorado.
Her painting, pictured at right and titiled
"New Mexico Rainstorm", was sold at the exhibition, and is available as a limited edition print.
There are thirty-five painters and twenty-one sculptors whose work was included in the exhibition,
The Horse in Fine Art, and, according to the catalog, "they are the most renowned and talented artists working
in this genre today." They have represented the horse in diverse surroundings and activities such as racing, fox hunting, show jumping and polo.
Exhibition Co-Curators:Xochitl S. Barnes, AAEA Director of Exhibitions, David J. Wagner, Ph.D., Curator/Tour Director, David J. Wagner, L.L.C.
The image and power of Taos Mountain
and the Taos Valley play a central role in Valerie Graves work,
and are portrayed in their many moods and in various seasons. The rich golden light of sunset which highlights the Sangre de Cristos and casts lush,
deep purple shadows is vividly captured in her glowing pastels and oils
