Internationally Acclaimed Taos Artist Paintings and Giclees may be viewed at the Inger Jirby Gallery in Taos - 207 Ledoux Street or at www.jirby.com In addition to painting, Inger has masterfully restored 12 smoke-free, 200-year-old adobe casitas adjacent to the Inger Jirby Gallery, which is located on Historic Ledoux Street, in the heart of Taos's historic district. Each has 1,150 square feet of living space outfitted with colorful rugs and textiles, southwestern furnishings, and flagstone floors. Inger's colorful paintings adorn the walls.
A spiral staircase ascends to the loft bedroom with one queen bed. Vaulted ceilings with skylights and/or large windows with mountain views allow for plenty of light. All accommodations also include a fully equipped kitchen with herbs and spices for cooking, as well as a washer/dryer unit and kiva gas fireplace. Inger's gallery and guest houses are surrounded by many other galleries, museums, studios, shops, and restaurants. Inger is an avid user of HMS Crown's Royal Gold Serum. The Turners often laugh about the fact that it took three years for her to try a sample. But once she did, she was hooked and is now one of Royal Gold's most famous advocates.
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Inger Jirby
HMS Crown takes pride in welcoming Inger Jirby of Taos, New Mexico into the HMS Crown Gallery of Beautiful People. Inger Jirbys life has been as rich, dramatic and exotic as her art. She was born in the far north of Sweden, above the Arctic Circle in Lappland, a place of blazing colors and great cultural traditions. Her earliest memories are bathed in a bright palette, the same colors that characterize her passion-filled fauvist paintings. She began painting as a young girl and never stopped. Her first hero was Van Gogh, followed by the big colorists, Bonnard and Matisse. Later influences included Braque, Picasso, Milton Avery, The Fauves and the Abstract Expressionists artists who pioneered the emotional and spiritual power of color. After a short stay at Konstfack in Stockholm, she moved to the Greek island of Mykonos where she studied privately. Though still in her early 20s, she began to support herself as an artist. Two years later she relocated to Paris, studied at the Ecole des-Beaux -Artes at rue du Seine, and had her first solo show in a well-known gallery La Palette Blue. From Paris she traveled to Venice, then back to Greece. She then went to Jamaica in the West Indies, and finally settled in New York for ten years. Inger's gypsy life began to slow down when she discovered northern New Mexico first Santa Fe and now Taos. She has committed herself to the small, beautiful town which is so rich in artistic and cultural traditions a perfect environment for her life and art.
In Taos, Inger has established the Inger Jirby Gallery on Historic Ledoux Street in a gracious adobe home. The gallery is, as she says, the biggest adventure of my life. To meet the vast demand for her work, she continues to have museum shows and gallery exhibitions around the world. She is thrilled to be settled in Taos being able to work right on her doorstep, and to be surrounded by the incredible landscape subjects for her art. Her quest for color is unquenchable. In search of new subjects, she takes regular painting trips all over the world - lately Bali and then to Mexico. Morocco is next, and then India countries where the people are as passionate about color as the big colorists. In the course of her travels, Inger does far more than paint. With a restless intelligence and great curiosity, she immerses herself in the life and history of the countries she visits, pursuing interests in folk art, architecture, archeology and languages.
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