“Under A Big Sky”

From the solo show in Santa Fe in 2002. $28.00 shipped to U.S. address.

“Heartland”

From the solo show in Santa Fe in 2002. $28.00 shipped to U.S. address.

Both “Under A Big Sky” and “Heartland” can be purchased together. $55.00 shipped to U.S. address.

“Staying Close To Home”

“These paintings are intimate observations and conversations with areas of my shaping, scented by the presence of family and confidants. They re tinted by recent time-of-life experiences such as births and deaths, growing up and growing old. All that sort of thing filters into one’s work, as well as the responses to it, which is the substance of painting as I see it. Landscape paintings for me are more thoughts about - than documents of - meaninful places with imbedded experiences.”

- Marc Bohne

“The Chamberino Paintings”

"The varied landscape of Northern New Mexico has long been a favorite subject for painters, myself included. Indeed, over the years, I have painted dozens of paintings from this area. This book, however, is a small, personal perspective on the dry southern part of the state near El Paso where I grew up. These images are not nostalgic of the New Mexico that I remember from my youth, but rather reflect the New Mexico that I know from my visits as an adult to the house of my parents, Ralph and Vera Bohne. That house sits on a sand hill on Lopez Road near the village of Chamberino, New Mexico, overlooking the Rio Grande Valley. The valley reaches out to the Franklin Mountain range to the east, Las Cruces to the north, and south to El Paso and the Mexican border. The village itself sits on the western edge of fields that siphon water off the winding Rio Grande river to grow various kinds of crops scattered between vast orchards of pecans."  - Marc Bohne

Available books:

“Heartland”

This is the show catalogue for the Meyer-Munson Gallery show in Santa Fe, New Mexico, opening on October 20, 2006. The book will be available at the show, and through this site after November 1st. The book itself is 11-1/2 by 8-1/4 inches, and it is called “Heartland”. Under the dark rust matt finished cover is a semi-retrospective look at the landscape on 48 pages with 36 beautiful color plates, with an essay by Seattle writer and filmmaker Lacy Wilkinson.

Excerpts:

"We often speak about the "magic" of a place. We say magical because we want it to describe so many things, to leave it to the listener to mull over the meaning. We say it because we don't really know how to translate the impact the vision has upon us. Marc intuitively senses the magic in a place. He hears and, more importantly, listens to the mythology of the land. A dirt trail running off through scrub is obviously more than the sum of the image. Yet there’s nothing iconographic or symbolic about it. The eyes see it, the mind processes. I look more closely. And the sounds outside fade. I'm unaware of the senses. The mind drops away. Like a waking dream, I find myself imagining the countless feet trampling that trail. The animals over the ages, their hides rubbing against the brush, leaving wispy strands of dead hair to mark their passage,  leading their young off to some unforeseen, undetermined destination. A young man wearing sandals is looking for something. Dust settling from the dry days covers the underbrush. It’s just a trail. There is so much in so little. I suddenly realize I’m thirsty." -- Lacy Wilkinson

"There is no place like the Midwest, and one must live there to really know what I mean by that (which is the same for anyplace, I suppose). The solidity of the people and the middleness of it's Americana are a contrast to the coasts, which have a different kind of history. On the coasts, there is coming and going, and water, and foreign lands off the horizon. In the Midwest there is staying, and rooting, and the water comes from the sky." -- Marc Bohne

“Under A Big Sky”

This is the show catalogue for the Munson Gallery show in Santa Fe, New Mexico, opened on June 28, 2002. The book itself is 11-1/2 by 8-1/4 inches, and it is called “Under A Big Sky”. Under the forest-green matt finished cover is a semi-retrospective look at the landscape on 48 pages with 36 beautiful color plates, with an essay by New Mexico art writer Dennis Jarrett.

Excerpts:

"When I was a young art student (quite a bad one) I wanted to paint something that would impress my grandparents. In those days, people liked “weathered” barns. You’d get a catch in your throat every time you saw some decrepit old building on the highway, especially if it had a pitched roof. So I slaved away at a rendition of our garage, a reeking, fall-down yellow building full of mice. But my painting showed it from a certain distance. Sure enough, my grandfather loved it. He said, “That’s perfect, I remember that barn.” It’s not a barn, grandfather, it’s a garage. “Yes, and inside that window is right where you did your science experiment with the mouse. It’s beautiful.” That’s sentiment, as pure as it gets. But landscape painters have often found more subtle ways to exploit unearned feelings, e.g., happy trails, platonic wildflowers, anecdotal mountains. You look at a painting by Marc Bohne and you don’t recognize your garage or a Kodak vista point, but you’re emotionally moved, often by an almost anonymous landscape. No false memories are invoked. The land suggests what I called, as a child, secret hiding places. There are no hooks from which to hang your old assumptions." - Dennis Jarrett

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There are a limited number of signed books available. The studio will offer a set of both books for $55.00 U.S. shipped, or either singly.

If you would like to purchase one, please do one of the following:

Make your check or money order for $28.00 (USD) (shipped in the U.S.) payable to “Marc Bohne” for either book, and mail to the following address. Please specify which book in any paper correspondance.

Marc Bohne

3737 135th Avenue NE

Seattle, WA 98125

Marc’s work is also discussed in Mitch Albala’s new book, “Landscape Painting” which you can get at Amazon and other fine book outlets.

"Staying Close To Home" and “The Chamberino Paintings”

The 2008 show at Meyer East in Santa Fe does have a catalogue. It is titled "Staying Close To Home" and is actually available but only as a special order. They were produced in a small number for the show as "print on demand" books through Apple. It is the same dimentions as the catalogues below, but with only 30 pages, with 23 color plates, all work from 2008.

There is a hardback companion book, called "The Chamberino Paintings" which was done as a personal note on the last few years, and Marc's father coming to terms with the changes he has endured in that time. The Chamberino book has some paintings not in any other place, but also some that are in the other catalogues. It is just a collection of the paintings of the area around the Chamberino house. It is the same size, and was not originally done for sale or distribution.

The price for the softback catalogue “Staying Close To Home” and the hardback “Chamberino Paintings” would be $110.00, and may be delivered unsigned, as they come directly from the publisher. We apologize for the price, but the ‘one at a time’ printing of these is the culprit.

Descriptions of both books are below.