Percha Creek Traders
Featuring Unique Arts, Books, Crafts and Collectables
On the "New Mexico Fiber Arts Trail".....
575-895-5116
300 Main Street, Hillsboro, NM
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SPECIAL EVENTS SCHEDULE for 2009
Artists and Artisans Demonstrations Day - April 4th
Heritage Music Festival - May 16th
Jane Dobrott's Wire Sculpture Show - April 25th - May 17th
Harvest Festival - September 5th
Autumn Artists and Artisans Day - October 10th
Melody Sears' Show of Pastels and Oils - November 14th
Christmas in the Foothills - December 5th
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MEMBER ARTISTS
Jane Dobrott has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona. She has sold her paintings and watercolors in Scottsdale AZ, and whimsical wire sculptures in Santa Fe. She also creates unique cowboy hats for guys and gals under the name "Buffalo Belles Millinery". Her newest creations are her clay horse sculptures. She and her husband, a wildlife biologist, have worked on ranches for over 30 years and currently manage Ted Turner's Ladder Ranch.
Kathy Lovell creates a whimsical menagerie under the name "Kathy's Kritters" , including lizards, turtles, galloping horses, horny toads, happy hens, camels, wooley buffalos and more --all made from clay and fired with a beautiful variety of colorful glazes. She also crafts Raku and glazed pottery, hand painted gourd bowls, canteens and tray tables. Kathy also presents historical family motorcycle photographs sure to intrigue all.
Melody Sears Melody paints in both pastels and oils, focusing on plein air landscapes (which means fighting bugs and breezes to paint outdoor scenes on site), intermixing them with more formal studio still life paintings of flowers, fruits and vegetables (which don't move in the wind and often provide lunch when the painting is done). Her inspiration is always the light--a shaft of sunlight falling on a bowl of apples, the dramatic light of dawn on a rock cliff. Happily, life in and around Hillsboro provides so much subject matter to paint, she'll never run out of inspiration.
Gene and Diane Washburn of "Sleeping Indian Creative Designs" create handmade tables, coat racks, picture frames and many other items using native woods found in this region. His woodworking is both rustic and elegant -- always celebrating woods' natural beauty.
Matilde Holzwarth's photography presents an artist's view of the magic of New Mexico and the wonders of nature. She has pursued photography for fun and in her career of Neuroscience research and teaching . Since coming to The Land of Enchantment her interest in fine art photography has been energized. She has participated in several Santa Fe Workshops under the tutelage of Jay Maisel and Norman Mauskopf; this has expanded her photographic skills and helped develop her photographic eye. Her fine Archival Prints are created with the finest archival paper and pigment based inks. See more of her photographs at her website.
Jane Turner and Paul Rose live part-time in the Hillsboro area. Jane is a long-time potter as well as a water colorist whose paintings depict soft muted and impressionistic moments of life. Paul's photographs and notecards focus on historical and western scenes in and around Hillsboro.
Ellie Nordgren of Hillsboro is one of our newest members. She offers beautiful handmade beeswax candles of unique designs, soaps, honey and beautifully packaged chiles.
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Merry Seewerker of Hillsboro makes elegant necklaces of beautiful polished semiprecious stones. Each necklace is unique in colors and combinations of shapes of the beautifully polished stones.
Bob Shipley , of Kingston NM, crafts unique cutting and cheese boards, coasters, letter openers, cheese knives and butter spreaders from local sycamore, juniper, mesquite and walnut wood. They are beautiful, useful and reasonably priced.
From Our "Day of the Dead" Collection:
NEW
by Jan Haley
Jan Haley NEW "Free Flow; The Gila River in New Mexico"
Liz Hayes Poetry: "Lessons" and "T'was Only Love"
LouAnne Johnson ""Alternative Ed" "Yo Eddie", The Queen of Education; Rules for Making Schools Work", "Dangerous Minds", "Vigilante Grandmas" and "What Happened to the Man I Married?".
Lynn Nusom cookbooks including: "Christmas in New Mexico", "Christmas in Arizona", "New Mexico Cook Book", "Spoon Desserts", "Billy the Kid Cook book " and "Cooking with Tequila!"
Harley Shaw "Soul Among Lions; the Cougar as Peaceful Adversary", "Stalking the Big Bird: A Tale of Turkeys, Biologists and Bureaucrats" and "Cougar Management Guidelines"
Robert "Shoofly" Shufelt "Raised on Good Pasture" and "The Point of My Pencil"
Catherine Wanek "The New Strawbale Home" and "The Art of Natural Building"
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NEW
by Erin Hudson
"Shoofly"
Julie Shufelt - Handmade block print cards and drums
Bob Shipley - Handcrafted wood picture frames, cutting boards and candle holders
Debra Smith - Cross stitch as framed, jewelry and box decorations
Bill Linderau - Handmade sterling silver jewelry
Veronique De Jaegher - Unique handmade wood and paper sconces and lamps
Mark and Marilyn Nero - The Cranberry Press unique antique letter press greeting cards and exquisite Viennese Pendant Bone China
Ellie
Sorensen - Colorful handpainted wooden bowls
of wild scenes, animals and geometric designs 
Grace M. Garcia Dobson - Hand painted iconography; prints and cards
Diana Vineyard - Small oil paintings of southwest scenes, birds and still lifes
Sue MacAllister -unique and colorful purses and handbags made of felted wool.
Holly Humphrey - Watercolors and acrylics on paper and deerskin
Sandy Hopper - Hand painted silk scarves and shawls
NATURAL PRODUCTS
New Mexico Soap Company featuring hand crafted all natural soaps
Desert Goddess Soap
All Natural SuperSalve Company all natural products: healing salves, cosmetics, lipbalms, creams and lotions
ANTIQUES AND COLLECTABLES
A large collection of depression glass, porcelain, milk glass, vintage jewelry, pottery, furniture and lots more.
Useful Links : Hillsboro, Sierra County, Sierra County Arts Council, Deming Arts Council, Silver City Arts Council,
NM Fiber Arts Trail , New Mexico Arts, Cuna Cueva Gallery , Lovells' Antiques.
Hillsboro Attractions:
Restaurants: Barbershop Cafe (575-895-5283), Hillsboro General Store (575-895-5306), S-bar-X Barbeque (575-895 5214)
Motel/ Bed and Breakfast: Hillsboro Court (575-895-5214), Black Range Lodge Bed and Breakfast (575-895-5652), Enchanted Villa Bed and Breakfast (575-895-5686 ) , Barbershop Plaza Motel (575-895-5283 )Other: Cuna Cueva Gallery, Lovells Antiques , Sue's Antiques, Ten Thousand Villages, Rock store, Mantis Market, Barbara Massengill Studio, and other galleries. Black Range Museum..
Site last modifed 1/11/2009