Meet The Artists
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S.J. Shaffer
Raised on the streets and boardwalks of Mission Beach, San Diego, SJ Shaffer was supported by unlikely mentors—Vietnam veterans, local street figures, and dedicated teachers—who nurtured both her resilience and her artistic talent. By seventeen, she had won multiple drawing awards, earned the San Diego Kiwanis Merit scholarship to Otis Art Institute, graduated with honors in Commercial Illustration, and built a successful career working with clients like Universal Studios and the City of Los Angeles, ultimately winning a Los Angeles Maggie Award. She later moved to Arizona and New Mexico, where she shifted into fine art, capturing the spirit, cultures, and rich history of the American West.
Anthony Abbate
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, and based in Santa Fe since 1981, I studied fine arts at Rhode Island College and have explored a wide range of mediums throughout my lifelong artistic journey. In 2009, I developed a process I call “Photographic Rendering,” transforming digital photographs in Photoshop through layering, abstraction, and enhancement to create works that often resemble watercolor paintings. My work has been exhibited in prominent Santa Fe galleries and hotels, and I am a designated “Trusted Art Seller” through The Art Storefronts Organization.
Claire Boyce
Claire Boyce, artist, founded The One Who Sees Clearly Arts in 2012 to share art as a pathway to self-expression and healing, a vision reflected in her paintings which she describes as a “love letter to the land and to humanity”.
Her fine art has been exhibited in juried shows and galleries throughout Colorado and New Mexico, including the Denver Art Museum’s FOPAS exhibit, and her work has been recognized with a Ghost Ranch painting scholarship, the Boulder County Art Alliance’s 2018 Martha Kate Thomas Grant, and inclusion in New Mexico’s 2025 “New Mexico Only Purchase Initiative.”
Dakota Roberts
Dakota Roberts is an emerging mixed media artist from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, now based in Santa Fe, where she creates layered works inspired by nature using collage, mosaic elements, and acrylic paint. A Criminal Justice graduate with a Fine Arts minor, she chose to pursue art full time and continues to experiment across styles and mediums while working at a major Santa Fe gallery. Represented by Blue Sky Art Gallery and Divine West Gallery, her work has appeared in local shows, two solo exhibitions, and Santa Fe Magazine, and she is currently accepting 2026 commissions with the long-term goal of opening a gallery for emerging artists.
Linda Logan-Condon
Linda Logan Condon is a Santa Fe–based abstract artist whose work is shaped by global travel, numerology—especially the symbolism of the number three—and the Japanese philosophy of Wabi Sabi, embracing impermanence and imperfection. A self-taught, lifelong learner, she transitioned from a successful career in organizational development at Sandia National Labs to pursue art full time, experimenting with photography, collage, encaustic, resin, and mixed media. Her award-winning photography and recent collage work have been exhibited throughout New Mexico, and she was recently awarded a month-long artist residency in Provence, France.
Farahnheight Fine Art
FaraHNHeight Fine Art is an art gallery that focuses primarily on the contemporary Native American genre by both emerging and established Native American, First Nations, and Indigenous artists of the Americas.
As well as showcasing post-modern and modern Southwestern contemporary artists.
Isis Chirinos
My passion for painting brought me to Santa Fe. I got inspired by a painter friend who did a series of works called “Santa Fe Light.” I was intrigued by Santa Fe and the Southwest for many years as I went through my careers. When I moved to Santa Fe in 1991, I was immediately struck by the intensity of light and the magnificent horizons. The light was especially alluring against the different tones of adobe walls and reminiscent of the colors I loved as a child in Honduras.
I am captivated by the vibrant colors I see in the New Mexico landscape and the remarkable sunsets!
My goal is to capture my subject in spontaneous brushstrokes juxtaposed with my intuitive sense of color and light.
Satisfaction in painting for me is when all at once I see the intensity of light, the richness of color, and the sublime essence of my surroundings.
Diego Rigales
Diego Rigales was born from this Oga Po'geh/Tewa/Santa Fe desert dust and will
return to it once again.
His hands, just like yours, contain the power to create or destroy. This same duality of
energy exists in all of us. Rigales believes in a world where people [non-AGI] trust
each other. He believes in love.
Rigales has traveled to ten different countries, holds a BA in architectural design and
has worked in various sectors of the art world. His dedication to the arts is a lifetime
endeavor: past, present and future.
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Joann Tom
I grew up thinking I was not creative at all, but was fortunate as an adult to find some friends who encouraged me to try making art. Now I know that I have a need to create and enjoy painting dot mandalas, designing and making jewelry as well as stained glass. Dot mandala painting is a very deliberate, repetitive process, which really calmed my nervous system down when I burned out at my last job.
Holly Pobis
I grew up in South Carolina, where my father’s career as a professional sports photographer sparked my lifelong love of photography and art. After more than twenty years as a teacher, I turned that passion into a full-time art career on Hilton Head Island, creating work inspired by marsh light and experimenting with techniques like my hand-painted PhotoColour pieces and cyanotypes. Now based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I continue to explore light, texture, and color—blending coastal influences with Southwest landscapes and design.
AnaBessy
Born and raised in El Triunfo, Honduras, AnaBessy's artistic journey has been a lifelong exploration of expression and introspection. Influenced by her studies in Boston and San Miguel de Allende, she is now based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and continues to draw inspiration from her surroundings, infusing her sculptures with a rich tapestry of emotions.
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