Alcove Show Honoring Taos’ Remarkable Woman, Ann St. John Hawley

Ann St John Hawley in her studio
Ann St John Haw­ley in her studio

On Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 8th, from 4 PM until 6 PM, a recep­tion for the alcove show fea­tur­ing the work of renowned Taos painter, Ann St. John Haw­ley, will be held at Starr Inte­ri­ors, 117 Paseo del Pueblo Norte in Taos, New Mexico.

Ann St. John Haw­ley 1919 — 2010

As an artist, Ann St. John Haw­ley pro­duced a prodi­gious num­ber of pieces of art rang­ing from oil and acrylic por­traits, land­scapes, water col­ors, pen and ink fig­ures, block and mono prints, Sumi and Butoh draw­ings to ceram­ic pots and wood sculp­tures. Her goal was to com­mu­ni­cate through her artis­tic medi­um the divine dance of nature, col­or and form. For Ann, every­thing she saw around her inspired her to reach for new and dif­fer­ent forms of artis­tic and spir­i­tu­al expres­sion. That includ­ed new ideas, new thoughts and philoso­phies. She nev­er grew old in spir­it, con­stant­ly involved in tak­ing class­es, whether in drum­ming or in the study of world reli­gions at the Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co, often attend­ing lec­tures, rel­ish­ing the mys­ti­cism in reli­gions. All of this pro­vid­ed more inspi­ra­tion for her painting.

Ann is not only remark­able because she was a work­ing artist until the end of her life in 2010, nor only for the amaz­ing col­lec­tion of work she pro­duced while being the moth­er of six, but for her spir­it which per­me­at­ed all she did. Her work encom­passed a wide vari­ety of expres­sion, con­stant­ly evolv­ing as she was.  Although nev­er pro­claim­ing her­self as a philoso­pher, she was. In a quote in Fifty and Beyond; New Begin­nings in Health and Well Being, here’s what she said about cre­at­ing anew, “I also like chaos. You have to have some chaos in order to find a new way. Although it’s painful and you feel lost, out of chaos comes some kind of direc­tion or insights – some­thing new emerges.” She nev­er stopped search­ing for that some­thing new.

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The Gift 30 x 15in - Ann St. John Hawley
The Gift 30 x 15in — Ann St. John Hawley
Ann St. John Hawley © R Steinbach
Ann St. John Haw­ley © R Steinbach
Ann in Veil
Ann in Veil

Artwork by Ann St. John Hawley
Art­work by Ann St. John Hawley