ART News:

Marianne Hornbuckle’s 2024 exhibit “Imagining The Universe” is on display through August at the Southside Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive in Santa Fe. 

Hornbuckle’s abstractions imagine the mystery of the universal spirit, cosmic energy, the nature of “one”. With recurring motifs of circles, executed on canvas and board, and drawing on her long experience with both watercolor and acrylic, they are multi-layered, both transparent and subtly textural, inviting close inspection and distant appreciation, and nearly always expressing an abstract concept to which her curiosity has guided her.

Her work results from a long-lived art-life, and the natural evolution toward age and death and seeks to inspire respect and awe of the universe, to provoke thought and alter mood through contemplation and reverence. She is grateful to the “cosmic intervention” which guided her to discover and live her life purpose.

Hornbuckle’s newer experimental explorations use the painting approaches of both watercolor and acrylic and more recently the newly popular “pour” techniques, which she finds adapt beautifully to expressing her intense fascination with “imagining the universe”, at the quantum level, in deep space, and through the exciting scientific advances in physics and the neurosciences.

Hornbuckle’s is self-taught and has lived and worked in Pojoaque for 41 years, 33 of those with her husband artist William Preston, sumi & oil painter, who died in 2015.

To learn, visit www.mariannehornbuckle.com.