{"id":71390,"date":"2016-12-06T01:07:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T08:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bayfield-artists-work-displayed-at-olio-in-mancos\/"},"modified":"2016-12-06T08:07:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T08:07:49","slug":"bayfield-artists-work-displayed-at-olio-in-mancos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bayfield-artists-work-displayed-at-olio-in-mancos\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayfield artist\u2019s work displayed at Olio in Mancos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Bayfield
Bayfield artist Carol Meckling will have paintings on display through Feb. 4 at Olio in Mancos.<\/span>Jacob Klopfenstein\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Carol Meckling\u2019s paintings emphasize big skies and landscapes.<\/p>\n

Her show, \u201cLand and Sky,\u201d will be on display at Olio restaurant in Mancos through Feb. 4. An artist reception will be held Saturday at the restaurant from 4 to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

Meckling moved to Bayfield from Seattle about a year ago. Instead of a canvas, Meckling\u2019s painting surface of choice is wood from hollow core doors that were salvaged from her old house in Seattle, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe wood grain shows up in the paintings,\u201d she said. \u201cI like the way the paint moves across the wood surface.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meckling learned landscape painting while studying in San Francisco with artist Nicholas Wilton. She also spent a week as an artist-in-residence at Willowtail Springs north of Mancos. From those experiences, Meckling built up a body of work of landscape paintings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had never done that before,\u201d she said. \u201cThey were not any landscapes in particular, but inspired by places I\u2019ve seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The artist\u2019s works include more literal, realist landscape scenes, such as \u201cStormy Mesa,\u201d which depicts a thunderstorm rolling in over Mesa Verde as viewed from Willowtail Springs. She also paints more abstract interpretations of sky and landscape scenes.<\/p>\n

Working with wood instead of canvas also gives Meckling an opportunity to explore the different ways that the paint interacts with the wood surface, she said. She tends to use brushes less and less, adding and subtracting layers as her works evolve, she said.<\/p>\n

For her painting \u201cPhoenix Rising,\u201d Meckling started with a photo she took at a nature preserve that she was trying to recreate, but it wasn\u2019t working out. So she started adding layers to the painting, and soon a bird shape emerged. She did some stenciling work and eventually added dark red paint to the surface, and it became a depiction of a phoenix rising from flames.<\/p>\n

\u201cPainting this way creates something really spontaneous and fresh,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Some of her paintings are more from memories and some are from pictures, but they evolve into something that isn\u2019t exactly a picture, she said. Seeing what emerges from that process is exciting, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt becomes a really expressive process,\u201d Meckling said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I make art. It\u2019s about the process. That\u2019s super-exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meckling paints landscapes in unconventional ways<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,83,60],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-71390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-mancos","tag-montezuma-county"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71390"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=71390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}