Art Gallery Paintings

Cardona-Hine Art Gallery is one of New Mexico's gems known to astute collectors for 20 years now.The gallery features the oil and acrylic art paintings of internationally known and collected artists, Alvaro Cardona-Hine and Barbara McCauley. The museum-like gallery space glows with McCauley's joyful, light-filled, New Mexico colors and with Cardona-Hine's subtle, sometimes smoldering, sometimes whimsical, but always painterly canvasses. Enjoy viewing some of their oil and acrylic painting art work here. Living with their art will add excitement and energy to your home; as with all good, original art, it will also add depth to your whole environment and life. With your first purchase of any original art painting or print from this site, we will include a free art poster as long as supplies last. See your choices of posters on the Free Fine Art Posters link. You will also enjoy a 15 day money back guarantee on any purchase.

Cardona-Hine Art Gallery, Since 1988

 Cardona-Hine Art Gallery opened in 1988 and is celebrating its 20th anniversary all this year, 2008.

Having lived and exhibited in Los Angeles and Minneapolis/St. Paul, the artists chose to move, in 1987, to Truchas, NM, a tiny Hispanic village high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in order to have the solitude and quiet in which to pursue and deepen their art.

As part of their creative journey, they decided to abandon the conventional art gallery scene to share and sell their paintings directly to collectors.

Doing so, they discovered that the creative process is not just about making a work of art, but also about its being seen, felt--in short--received, in order for the creative process to be completed. While they had always known this intellectually, it now became a reality they experienced almost daily. This has had a profound effect on their view of their art and on their appreciation for their patrons.

Over the years, both the gallery and the artists have gained a reputation for quality, integrity, honesty and authenticity in both their art and in their dealings with experienced art collectors as well as with newcomers to the world of art and collecting.