Kim Roberts "Sundown"

My name is Kim Roberts and I live in Crestone, Colorado– a very small town just north of the Great Sand Dunes National Monument in southern Colorado. This is a place where they say “the veil is thinner.“

The Sangre de Cristo mountains rim the San Luis Valley. The Sangre de Cristos are named this because they turn blood-colored every night at sunset–at least during specific times of the year. This piece is an attempt to reflect that blood-of-Christ color that arises at this very fleeting moment each time of day. 

This piece is an oil on panel. It was created as part of a triptych where I tried to mimic Monet's process with his haystacks series– where he took the same subject and repeated the image at various times of day. 

Sundown is one piece in a series where I also created this section of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range at various times of day. 

This piece is Tilting West. It's not Western in that there are no cowboys or horses. But there is a definite Western theme in the massive size of the mountains– which is how it's experienced in real life. 

My intention in creating the mountain series that includes Sundown is to allow an experience of that massive mountain energy and feel a moment of spaciousness and peacefulness that these mountains– as imposing as they are– allow people to experience when in their presence.