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Reflections and transparencies draw artist Colleen Gregoire into a luminous geometry lifted from houses and water.

The Placitas artist is returning to that passion in 鈥淐olleen Z. Gregoire: Upon Further Reflection,鈥� open at Wild Hearts Gallery through June 23.

Gingerbread and reflections: Colleen Gregoire captures the abstractions light forms in water and glass

Gregoire grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, where she developed a life-long love for the landscape. Painting plein air (outdoors), she studied the changing seasons around the Flint Hills and the surrounding farmland. The porches and verandas of the 19th and 20th centuries beckoned. Experiencing New Mexico through a newcomer鈥檚 eyes provided a new energy to her oil paintings.

鈥淚鈥檓 reviving a theme I鈥檝e done in the past,鈥� she said, 鈥渄oing reflections or studies of windows 鈥� not being a peeping Tom!鈥�

Gregoire walks and drives around the Albuquerque area to discover the abstractions light forms in water and glass.

She enjoys the irreverent qualities of chairs seeming to float on a reflected porch.

Architecture and light have proven a long-term interest.

鈥淚 lived in an older neighborhood when I was establishing myself as an artist,鈥� she said. 鈥淢y husband and I lived in a restored Victorian house.鈥�

She walked around that neighborhood, searching for angles, gingerbread and reflections, a tradition she has continued.

鈥淚 would take quick photographs from the sidewalk and keep moving,鈥� she said.

鈥淚 get the basic spatial elements in,鈥� Gregoire explained. 鈥淚 do everything with a brown under paint for value study, and then I paint over it. It鈥檚 an old Renaissance trick. It鈥檚 probably because light is an important subject matter.鈥�

Soon, fans began commissioning her to paint their homes.

鈥淚 think some people were surprised when they saw their front window in a show,鈥� Gregoire said.

Today, she asks permission. Many New Mexico homes aren鈥檛 as accessible to her, thanks to walls, fences and gates.

鈥淢id Day Shadows on the Rockers Porch鈥� is a composite of several homes, with the Guti茅rrez Hubbell House in the window鈥檚 background.

鈥淏urque Sunrise鈥� emerged from a day in the Bachechi Open Space, gazing at the mirrored surface of a naturally occurring acequia.

鈥淪horeline鈥� is a plein air study of reflections on the bosque with the languid reflections of the cottonwood branches. 鈥淟avender Reflections鈥� captures a Victorian window embellished by stained-glass and the requisite porch chair.

Gregoire is drawn to the structure of the architecture she places in her paintings.

鈥淵ou get a little cross-eyed sometimes,鈥� she said, 鈥渂ut it鈥檚 training your eye to focus on one layer at a time.鈥�

Back in Lawrence, Gregoire鈥檚 mother provided her with notebooks, paints and markers from the time she reached elementary school. She began private lessons with a local teacher.

鈥淚t was really basic training,鈥� she said. 鈥淵ou had to do drawings at first. Then we were introduced to watercolor. Some of those techniques I still use today.

鈥淓ven at an early age, it was an urge; it was a need.鈥�

Gregoire taught at the University of Kansas and at Baker University before cutting back to raise a family.

鈥淚 stepped away from a desk job at 近距离内射合集 Way,鈥� she added. 鈥淚 wanted to be more of a mom and an artist.

鈥淚 still have a real love for the landscape,鈥� Gregoire continued. 鈥淏ut the porch paintings are like an itch that won鈥檛 go away.鈥�