Sally Russell                                                                                                  

 

A natural expressionist, Sally Russell, uses brilliant multilayered oil color to create vivid landscapes and figures. Originally from Denver, she settled in Venice, California where she owned a Hairstyling Salon for many years prior to starting her artistic career. She attended Otis College of Art in Los Angeles, along with art workshops in California. Sally’s work has been featured in many exhibitions, and is in private collections throughout the West.

 

As I look toward the white snow covered Taos Mountain, I went to a warm space that I knew. Poppies and sunflowers filled my canvas with red! Picturing hot summer nights I spread the red, orange and yellow paint with abandon, starting with rich darks in thin layers, adding thick strokes of color. Fields of warm reds, orange and cool greens, flowers emerge, they fill the canvases with flowers with delicious dark centers. I can’t get enough! They dance across the canvas in a Taos Ballet of red. As the days grow warmer, my palette turns to a cooler temperature; soft white camellias, roses and magnolia bloom fill the space with a different texture, yet the same. And I remember the cool white vista of winter reaching forever. “ Sally Russell

 

Inspired by the intensely creative community of artists and writers, she moved to Taos, New Mexico where she can be seen painting en plein air and in her studio. Sally is represented in Taos by J. Carole Art Gallery. Sally writes and illustrates children’s books and is a columnist for Art Talk Magazine. With her inspirational canine companion Poukie, she writes of the Taos artists and the art scene from her and Poukie’s point of view. In California, Sally was vice president of the Malibu Art Association and Chairman of the annual Weisman Museum Show for the MAA organization for two years.