Cheryl D. Knobel

I chose photography as the art medium to express my feelings for the beauty and wonder of nature.  Through reading, I learned to think about what I was seeing and then how to reproduce the feeling through large format black and white photography.  My teacher and mentor in my initial instruction was Mr. George Drennan in El Paso, Texas.

Ansel Adams has always been my inspiration.  His work covers the gamut of technical expertise and art that portrays true feeling and spirit.

While living in El Paso, Texas, I participated in many group exhibits and had a one-woman exhibit of 80 photographs at the Chamizal National Monument and a small one-woman exhibit at the El Paso Museum of Art.  I was accepted into a juried exhibit at the Museum of Art.  I have participated in the Fall American competition at the Hubbard Museum of the American West and been accepted each time and won some awards.  After moving to Ruidoso, New Mexico, I worked for the Hubbard Museum and curated the prestigious Fall American Photography Exhibit for 3 years.

My portfolio, “Sticks, Stones and Bones”, shows nature from the white-barked limbs of an Arizona Sycamore to fine grasses to grains of sand forming rippled waves on the landscape or hard-packed layers of geological history in the steep walls of a deep river canyon.  I also enjoy some cityscapes and still life.

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