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Bold palette-knife strokes carve the Jemez Mountains from thick, sculpted paint, their ochre, rust and violet ridges rising above the chamisa plain. Expressive impasto gives the Santa Fe landscape a living, tactile weight, full bleed and free of figures, so the drama belongs entirely to the land and the light moving across it.