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A successful, full-time painter for the past 20 years, Nancy Ortensone absorbs the sights, sounds, and atmospheric wonders of the physical world with the fullest sensitivity and appreciation. Then in the tranquility of her studio near a small village in the mountains of northern New Mexico, she approaches her art as an alchemist approaches her raw materials. Nancy Ortenstone loves to go for long walks in the mountains near her home in northern New Mexico. It is an expansive landscape, with vast meadows below and La Jicarita peak in the far distance. Yet it is not overwhelming.