Wine and Art...

...on a Saturday afternoon, sounds like fun to me!

We would like to invite you to our opening reception of Wine & Art at the Bonacquisti Wine Company. Rob will be showing his new collection of Primitive folk art paintings and Santero art work and I will be showing my newest mixed media jewelry pieces featuring Frida Kahlo and Dia de los Muertos art.

We would like to thank Paul & Judy Bonacquisti for inviting us to show in their fabuloso urban winery right here in Denver.

We look forward to seeing all our friends and family and enjoying some great wine!

SALUD!!!

San Pascual, St. Francis and San Martin de Porres

I am just fascinated with all these new pieces Rob has created. Two of them are bultos and one a bultablo, hee hee, 1/2 retablo and 1/2 bulto. I will be listing these in the Etsy and 1000Markets shops tonight, but thought I'd show them off here too! The bultablo is of San Pascual, patron saint of cooks and kitchens, you can find him in just about every kitchen in New Mexico! The bultos are of St. Francis, patron saint of animals and ecology. One of the questions we get often is "Why is he holding a skull?", well the skull represents life hereafter and many Spanish colonial art pieces will have a skull somewhere on the piece, we are not trying to be morbid, lol. Last up is San Martin de Porres, patron saint of mixed races, innkeepers and public health. His heart was always with the poor, showing endless mercy and compassion. He was a Dominican brother who was born to a
Spanish nobleman and a young black former slave. San Martin was the first biracial man canonized into sainthood. Enjoy...and Rob would love to hear any comments you all might have :)

A Journey of Hope~Semana Santa

Have you ever heard of the Chimayo Pilgramage? This wonderful event takes place starting on Good Friday and ending on Easter Sunday in Chimayo, New Mexico. People come from all over to be a part of this great event, some carrying crosses, most others carrying candles, but most importantly they are carrying petitions for loved ones or themselves that are sick with disease, battling addictions, crippled, losing their jobs, praying for their children to come back safe from the war, well you get the picture, the list goes on and on. Some will walk only a few miles others will walk 100! You see the rustic and beautiful Santuario is known for the healing powers of El Posito (the Sacred Earth). Once here they will leave something behind, maybe a note, a picture, a rosary, a candle, art and they leave with that little bit of Holy dirt and Hope.

Why am I writing about the Santuario? Well, I wanted everyone to have a visual of the beauty of this place and to also tell you that Rob was there today and the gallery that is also a part of the church, has generously allowed him to place some of his art there! Wow, I think this is so great and I am so happy for my guy! The pictures are a couple of the new pieces, I took them in a hurry before he left.