Arroyo Burro

A quiet lagoon mirrors a cluster of tall palms and golden-lit sandstone in Arroyo Burro, an 8 x 16 oil painting by Nancy Davidson, with a pair of white birds drifting across the still water below. Davidson captures this creek mouth at its most tranquil, dusky mauve hills receding into haze behind a shoreline glowing amber in the day's last light. It's a smaller, more secluded view of a spot she's painted from grander angles elsewhere — proof that even a quiet backwater has its own kind of drama when the light is right.