Zoie - Meet The Artist/Setting

J. Garza Art Studio

This wide open space is all exposed brick and wide, weathered wooden beams, crowned with a high beamed ceiling. Run down, perhaps, but restored, slowly, by hard work. One wall hosts arched windows, curtained with gauzy fabric that perhaps started off white, but is now artfully tattered around the edges; nearby, where the light is best, stand several easels and canvases in various stages of completion, along with the expected tools of the artist's trade: rolling carts full of brushes and paint tubes, blank stretched canvases, linseed oil, rags smeared with polychrome discards. Finished paintings lean against the walls.

More of the floor space is given over to the studio than to living space; the latter is separated by plain folding screens. A Navajo "eye-dazzler" rug brightens the foot of an entirely functional bed and mismatched dresser, a few personal effects and jewelry strewn casually here and there. The kitchen is little more than a hotplate, mini-fridge, and coffee-making supplies, and a door at the back leads to the small, blue-tiled bathroom.