THE ART OF MARTHA FITZGERALD

Martha I. Fitzgerald has been drawing and painting since she was a small child. She grew up in Oklahoma and Texas, and after graduation from high school in 1952, moved to the West Coast and resided in Oregon and Northern California, in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area, until March, 2000, when she retired and moved to Taos, New Mexico. During the years before retirement, she worked and attended art school part-time. She attended Sacramento City College in California, where several of her works were purchased by the College for its permanent collection. She also has sold numerous works to friends and acquaintances over the years. She received an AA degree from Mendocino Community College in the early 1970’s. She also attended painting classes at Santa Rosa Community College Extension and University of California Extension in San Francisco. While at Sacramento City College, she studied oil painting with well-known Sacramento artist Gregory Kondos.

She paints in both watercolor and oil, and her subjects include California and New Mexico landscapes, California beach scenes, Native American dancers, Anasazi ruins, New Mexico churches, and scenes from her travels to foreign countries. She also paints abstractions which evoke images of the natural world, usually in earth colors with black. Her work is characterized by innovative composition and vivid colors. She has shown her work at various galleries in California, and at the Millicent Rogers Museum, and Taos Museum. She donated paintings to the Child Rite Art Auctions in 2005 and 2006. She is a member of the Taos National Society of Watercolorists and her paintings were included in the National Society shows in 2001, 2002, and 2006. She paints and sells from her studio located in her home in El Prado, New Mexico.

e-mail: bartfitz@taosnet.com
Website: fitzgeraldfineart.com
Mail: HCR 74, Box 21415, El Prado, NM 87529
Telephone: 505-751-7765