Galeria De Sueños

Retablos

The tradition of iconography or sacred art was carried out in Spanish Colonial New Mexico by santeros who painted icons or local churches and families.

These artists painted with home-made paints on hand-prepared wooden panels (retables). The images they painted resembled the ions of he Orthodox Churches (Greek Byzantium and Russia), and were characterized by the lack o f perspective which the Renaissance had brought to European iconography.

Inspired mainly by the santeros of the classical period of New Mexican iconography (1785-1850), Carol has blende the ancient tradition of encaustic art with the vernacular or people’s art of Colonial Nuevo Méjico.

The result is a truly unique and rare art form that produces a new and energetic portrayal of the sacred art of the santero tradition.