Collectors who have purchased paintings of Barbara McCauley and/or Alvaro Cardona-Hine share their experiences of the art, the artists or the gallery. Comments from our collectors are welcome. Please send your comments to support@cardonahinegallery.com.

From Bob & Alicia Brooks, Houston Texas, December, 2007

"It's great to have your art (McCauley's) and his art (Cardona-Hine's) all over our house to remind us of two of our very favorite people in the world."  12/08 

From Charles Schere, composer, writer, art critic; see his blog:  http://cshere.blogspot.com/ , March, 2008

I'VE WRITTEN ABOUT ALVARO CARDONA-HINE here before (most recently last August): an elegant, graceful man, an artist, writer, and composer, who we met some years back at his gallery in Truchas, New Mexico. Truchas is a small town on the fine old Taos road between Santa Fe and Ranchos de Taos; when I last saw it, ten years or so ago, it seemed just on the point of emerging from unchanged centuries, to become something of an artist colony. I hope it's not spoiled.

Alvaro's gallery was full of colorful paintings when we found it, fifteen years ago -- representational paintings, landscapes primarily, in Matisse-like areas of color of relatively flatly applied paint. Modernist they weren't, and aren't: at most, you could call them postimpressionist. I won't describe them further; you can see them at Alvaro's website. I will say that I like them very much; twenty years of retirement from daily art criticism has taught me to value paintings on their own terms, apart from any historical significance we might want to read into them.