"These jewel-like paintings intuitively fuse different aesthetic traditions, folk art and old master, with natural grace and an uncanny quality that may be a species of magic." —American Arts Quarterly
by Nandita Khanna Quick Trips: The Culture Fix: Austin, TX Condé Nast, May 2008 Many of the art spaces are scattered throughout Austin, but two of the finest are tucked away in the developing West End. On day two, head toward the salmon-hued clapboard house that is the Wally Workman Gallery (1202 W. 6th St.;…
Featured in Southwest Art’s “21 Under 31” Annual Emerging Artists Issue. —Gussie Fauntleroy, Southwest Art, September 2007
Color and Bounty by Josef Woodard Los Angeles Times February 14, 2002 The intriguing, exotic paintings of Fatima Ronquillo have been showing up in teasing, small doses in local galleries of late. Now, we get a chance to see a healthy complement of her work in her first local solo show at the Buenaventura Gallery. Make…
There are two schools of thought on how to learn to paint. The first is the atelier based education where technique takes precedence over vision with the goal that if you know how to draw/paint what's in front of you, you can then have leisure to cultivate a vision. The second school proposes that once…
I worked on my new little Pierrot intermittently over the course of a month. I knew I wanted an austere background, gray and atmospheric but I didn't know how to give form to the original idea. Almost through serendipity, I happened on a lovely and very gray George Inness at the American Impressionism show at the New…
by Josef Woodard "Grouping Art" Los Angeles Times August 16, 2001, p 6 Deliciously flamboyant painter Fatima Ronquillo has been showing up in the gallery of late, and hers is a welcome new voice. Here, her none-too-shy portrait “Manileña” screams for attention. It’s another one of her works bursting with unabashed color and lovable decorative…
An oil sketch on copper of a dead bird I found on my morning walk. See the photo here. I thought it fitting to paint this bird on my first copper panel painting. Here's a traditional method of preparing the copper plate with garlic from National Gallery Technical Bulletin Volume 20: Painting in Antwerp and London: Rubens and…
New painting available at Meyer East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. Somehow two different friends on two different occasions said he looks Russian. Maybe he is. He's not actually a card sharp.
I normally work on traditional gessoed (the rabbit skin glue, marble dust stuff, not the acrylic stuff sold as 'gesso') boards from RealGesso or oil primed Ampersand Hardbord or Ampersand Claybord sealed with thin imprimatura of ochre and M. Graham Walnut Alkyd Medium. However, when I work larger or wish for a change in surface,…
"Was it worth it?" Is perhaps a proper question to ask when one wonders about the relevance of one's work. If there ever was a manifesto on the artist's life, Robert Henri's seminal collection of writings, "The Art Spirit" come immediately to mind. It has been the bible for many a generation of hopeful creators.…
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