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Rebecca Golding is mostly a self-taught photographer who took her first pictures at age seven. She is no stranger to art as she took many art classes while she was growing up. These included art history, line drawing, pencil, pastel, and pottery, as well as music and dance lessons. When in high school, she took black-and-white photography courses to learn the basics of film development and printing. The rest is personal experience and a good eye for perspective, composition and color.

Rebecca was raised in Texas and took many family vacations around Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. She grew to love the southwest and its diversity of terrain. Throughout those travels she learned to look at and record nature in its own light. This means that she likes to use the natural lighting available at the moment and not to bring in artificial light or reflecting boards to enhance an image.

During high school and college Rebecca took pencil and ink drafting which gave her insights in perspective of images, presentation, and architecture. The drafting skills carried over as a way to pay for college. The degree plan was for engineering, but personal circumstances altered these goals resulting in degrees in math and business accounting. Photography and art became a hobby as life presented the need for a career path. But her love of the southwest took her to a job near the Four Corners (joining of NM, CO, UT, and AZ). In 1984 Rebecca entered photographs in a company contest and won top prizes with the photos being published in the corporate magazine.

She moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and began researching local Native American art. The many black line and geometric shapes drawn on pottery inspired her to pick up the drafting tools of pen and ink again. She began drawing free-style abstract geometric images. She also started making ink drawings of pot chards as she imagined they might look if found as an artifact. Many of these works were exhibited in a gallery in Albuquerque’s old town area and sold at private showings.

Living in Albuquerque presented many opportunities for photography, especially the yearly International Balloon Fiesta. She joined with some balloon pilots and took pictures while crewing for the balls of color floating through the skies. While crewing for balloonists, she met Robert Golding and they soon married. Their joint love for traveling the back roads has taken them to the diverse countryside’s of the southwest and beyond.

Through these travels in the southwest and other areas of the USA, Rebecca has taken pictures of many different landscapes, nature, architecture, and people. The inclusion of her on this site is to bring you these works of art (both photography and ink drawings) to be shown and shared.

I can not say that a particular artist has inspired me. I grew up learning about the old master painters and found that my talents did not lie there. I took photographs to capture the moment but also to share what I see, the way I see it, with others. I especially like taking nature pictures that when viewed might transport me or others to that place or time.

As I have a lifetime of photographs and negatives to bring out of storage and share, please visit the site again to see if I have added more.

I have shot most of my works with 35mm film. I have used other types of film and slides in earlier years, but 35mm is the easiest to process and print. Recently I have also been using (and am still learning) digital.

I am not listing all the camera types and lenses that I have used through the years; the list would be too long. I feel that the end results are what is important and the photographer should use the equipment that they are comfortable with and that gives the results they want. If you like the picture and it “speaks to you,” then purchase it and admire it often. Life should be filled with pleasures not details.

Events, Showings and Sales Locations

2008
July 5-6: NM Fine Arts & Crafts Show, (outdoors) Lincoln Ave& Marcy St, Santa Fe, NM.
June 14-15: Ruidoso Wine Festival, Ruidoso, NM.

Prior
September 23, 2007: Go! Downtown Albuquerque Arts Festival, by The Downtown Action Team, Albuquerque, NM.
September 8, 2007: Bear Canyon Arts and Crafts Show, Albuquerque, NM.
May 5, 2007: NM Singles Square Dance National Fling, Albuquerque, NM.
December 2, 2006: Christmas Arts and Crafts Fair, Calvary Temple, Albuquerque, NM.
November 17, 2006: Christmas in New Mexico, by Zia Arts & Crafts Festivals, Albuquerque, NM.

Terra Bella Artful Interiors, 3741 NM Hwy 528, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Art is OK Gallery, 3301 Menaul NE, Suite 28, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Desert Willow Gift Shop, 5221 Palo Duro NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Margaret Moses Gallery, 326 San Felipe NW (Old Town), Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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