She only cared for the sea when it was lashed to fury by the storm, and for verdure when it served as a background to a ruin. Everything must needs minister to her personal longings, as it were, and she thrust aside as of no account whatever everything that did not immediately contribute to stir…
Author: fatimaronquillo
Edible Austin, Winter 2009
Edible Austin's Winter 2009 issue features "Peaches" in an editorial "Edible Pocketbook: The Myth of More" by Helen Cordes.
Canyon Road Paint Out
This past Saturday, I participated in the Historic Canyon Road Paint Out and Festival to relive the early days of the Santa Fe art scene when artists set up shop painting along Canyon Road. I dusted off my very old and rarely used Jullian french easel and packed my paints in a bin. Being an…
Pasatiempo, October 2009
Exhibitionism Pasatiempo, Santa Fe New Mexican October 16-22, 2009, p 58
On family and friends
This year I wanted to connect more with family and friends. I'm usually lazy at keeping in touch, but with practice I'm getting better. I still don't call my mother as often as I should but I'm working on it. I believe that every person is a gift. My twitter and facebook buds make me…
Oxford American
Full page magazine feature of “Young Woman with a Cupid.” —“Upending the Muse” p. 25, The Oxford American, The Southern Lit Issue 2009, No. 66
Painting and Memory
Painting is the power of suggestion. There is nature and then there is art. When painting you look at something, and then you have to shift your eye to the canvas. There's a few seconds where there's only memory to guide you. It would be interesting if some real authority investigated carefully the part which memory…
Southwest Art, April 2009
Classically Inspired, Best of the West Southwest Art April 2009, p A self-taught artist, Ronquillo learned to draw and paint by studying the works of Titian, Velazquez and Rubens. Her classically inspired portraits evoke a realm where history mingles with imagined characters from opera, literature, and theatre.
The Conspirators: The Artist and Her Beastly Muse
There is a monkey whispering in my ear. Is it a devil or angel, perhaps an alter ego planning dark or brilliant deeds? It's nothing but a conspiring hairy muse. Shakespeare certainly thought it rascally, chiding the idle and absent muse in Sonnet 100. SONNET 100 by William Shakespeare Where art thou Muse that thou…
Austin Chronicle, January 2009
by Rachel Koper “A Grand Affair” Arts Review The Austin Chronicle January 16, 2009 New to me but not the gallery is Fatima Ronquillo, who paints pale women and girls in a classical style. They are dainty, dreamy, and a bit like antique dolls. They have very feminine, lacy clothes that are soothing and cozy,…
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