The high desert country of West Texas is engrained in the psyche of Mary Baxter. Her paintings reveal a deep understanding and nuanced knowledge of these storied lands, based on insights she has acquired over years of living here as a resident, a rancher and now a full-time painter. Her paintings of the area, reflect Baxter’s profoundly internalized “sense of place”, these bold abstractions drawing from this expansive and dramatic country and affirming her vision through grand execution and striking color schemes. As the high plains and Palo Duro Canyon lands of the Texas Panhandle fed the imagination of a young Georgia O’Keefe in an earlier time, the Texas Big Bend has influenced the life and art of Mary Baxter, lending vision, inspiration and natural ingredients to her inspired landscapes of this vast and mystical sector of West Texas.
