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Michelle Gaylor Fine Art
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the spirit of the moment

  • Distant ridge of cliffs forming the edge of a mesa across open desert with a ridge of rocks in the foreground

    Vermillion Cliffs

  • pastel painting of mountain canyon and distant skyline across a valley with mountains in the background

    Piestewa Vista

  • Oil painting of river and one bank in the shade of a cliff. The sun falls on the part of the river beyond the cliff and a sliver of the mountain in the distance.

    The Light Beyond

    Lee's Ferry
  • Oil Painting of a rock balanced on a pile of rocks on the edge of an overhang with sky and a tree covered mountain in the background

    Contemplation

  • Oil painting of Picacho Peak with bushes and cacti in the foreground

    Picacho Peak in Spring

  • Oil painting of a brightly colored chuckwalla on a rock with the lowlands in the distance

    Chuckie

    Wouldn't you love to see a blue chuckwalla?

  • Mountain Vista

  • Oil Painting of a single brittle bush catching the rays of the sun in the cavern between two rocks

    Brittlebush II

    Just enough sun
  • Oil painting of distant downtown Phoenix seen beyond a valley created by two mountains

    Phoenix Skyline

    Phoenix city park
  • Oil painting of sunset in the Grand Canyon, looking east from Mojave Point

    Canyon Sunset

    Sunset in the Grand Canyon, from Mojave Point
  • Pastel painting of three riders trotting their horses around the warm up pen.

    Before the Ropin’

    Not nervous yet
  • sunset over ocean with silhouettes of two surfers walking along water line

    Tamarindo Beach

    I may never return home

  • Glendale Public Library, Main

    View from the book drop
  • Cacti on a hillside with mountains in the background

    Preaching to the Choir

    Sunrise in the Phoenix Mountain Preserve
  • Reflections of palm trees in the water under a stone bridge

    Encanto Park

    Classic Phoenix neighborhood
  • Brittlebush in bloom on edge of dry wash

    Fleeting Spring

    The full force of summer in the Sonoran Desert is yet to come.
  • Field of daisies with trees in the distance

    Daisy Road

    Does some sort of OZ lie beyond?
  • Painting of a brittle bush with yellow flowers against the shadow of a rocky cove

    Brittlebush

    Casa Grande Buttes
  • Echo Canyon

    Echo Canyon

    Camelback Mountain is a beautiful, deceptively dangerous ascent
  • View of Phoenix looking through an adobe window at Dobbins Lookout

    Dobbins Lookout

    Phoenix Vista