New Gallery and New Paintings

I'm very proud to announce that my works will now be available at the Meyer Gallery in Park City, Utah  (in addition to Meyer East Gallery in Santa Fe and Wally Workman Gallery in Austin). They are lovely people over there and I look forward to working with them.  I sent them four new paintings…

Group Show: “FEAST”

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. The feasting continues as I am featured in a group show called "Feast" at Wally Workman in Austin, Texas. I sent two paintings for inclusion and "Cherry Picker" sold immediately. "Peaches" is still available. Please go see the opening, or better yet join them for dinner, if in…

“La Diva”

Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore, non feci mai male ad anima viva! / I lived for my art, I lived for love, I never did harm to a living soul! - from Puccini's Tosca I've collected four youtube videos of spectacular divas (Caballe, Callas, Price, Mattila) singing "Vissi d'arte" on my tumblr here. Coincidentally two of the divas are…

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.