Vangie Dunmire began her training with a paint brush and canvas many years ago while living in one of our national parks. This was her "awakening" to the joy of painting, as many persons living there wanted to learn to paint the beauty surrounding them. She completed her college education by earning a BA in art history at the University of New Mexico. She studied the early inhabitants of the Southwest - particularly remaining evidence of their art. Her interest in geology also developed at this time due to the rich abundance visible in the southwest landscape. While working on her degree, Dunmire fulfilled her earlier passion to study drawing, design, painting, and print-making. She continued her education with local instructors and painting workshops. She now focuses on watercolor. She paints mostly in her studio where she often refers to photographs taken while traveling by car or on foot enjoying remote trails. However, she is fortunate to have excellent landscape painting material right from her home on the north slopes of the Sandia Mountains in Placitas, NM. She says that the best painting opportunities come when outdoors enjoying a special location.  Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Albuquerque, NM, and numerous shows locally. 

"Bird Feed" 
(Millet strongly defying the 1-1-07 storm)
13 x 17"  $150

This past year Dunmire has served on the PAS Board of Directors as their School Outreach Coordinator responsible for scheduling educational musical, theater and dance assembly programs into the head start, elementary and secondary level schools in Sandoval; She realized a dream by spending a week in interior Alaska in the back county of Denali National Park where the enchantment with the micro-vegetation of the Alaskan tundra and later exploration of a part of the southern Alaskan coastline recharged creative batteries and inspired new painting material; and as a member of the New Mexico Watercolor Society and plein air painting in our surrounding area she's kept in contact with others who paint with watercolors. Her interest in classical music has continued her involvement with a local church choir and travel whenever possible.