Miles Begay

This is a showing at the Agora Gallery, Chelsea, New York. As one can see, the pieces Blue, Untitled and Green are in background.

This is myself realizing I had received "2nd place watercolors" at a local art showing in Albuquerque.

Agora Gallery, Chelsea, New York 2004

Schooled in Fine Arts at the School of Fine Arts in Alamosa, Colorado, and a Bachelor's in Business Adminstration from the University of New Mexico. I currently reside in the Southwest of the United States in the State of New Mexico. My inspiration stems from day to day interactions of people and the landscape which surrounds me.

I strive to live in beauty and strength. I truly admire the desert flowers, they are strong and blooming despite the harsh desert environment.

This is a local juried art showing, in which I received 3rd place in watercolors

Miles Begay's abstract watercolors combine an earnest approach to the medium with a sophisti- cated sense of color. Like Georgia O'Keefe, Richard Deibenkorn, and Wolf Kahn before him, Miles Begay is an American painter influ- enced by the natural landscape. Begay, raised in the Southwest and in Colorado, captures the very delicate air quality of this particular region of our country. He creates paintings with a highly intuitive sense of color and light. With the most minimal of brushwork, Begay's nuanced technique can be likened to that of a Chinese calligrapher. Fresh and spontaneous, the visual passages throughout Begay's images linger just long enough to give an impression of the desert at day's end, the intricate weave of Native American textiles, a ripple in a pond. Begay's paintings teeter on the edge of a sus- pended moment. "Orange" is one such painting, intermixing cool green lattice-like forms with warm spirals that seem to pulsate towards the surface

Artis Spectrum Magazine vol 13 pg 37

I usually create my pieces late in the evening right before bed. I'm guessing there is no better time as the day's business has settled, the mind has become uncluttered and nothing else can be accomplished but creation and imagination.

Pride New Mexico: 2nd Place Watercolor