Sweet No. Two

Gloria Roybal

Little is found on the life and career of Gloria "Lor" Roybal, also known as Lor Kotan (sometimes Roybal-Kotan), though she is still active in her native New Mexico, living in the mountains near Santa Fe. Her imagery borrows from the colors of the wilderness of the Santa Fe National Forest in which she was raised, yet her subject matter nearly always features imagined people or animals to whom she privately assigns names and stories of their own.

Roybal continues to work and exhibit in Santa Fe but also to maintain strict privacy. Though she has studied art history on her own time and finds kinship in the works of such artists as Chagall and Cezanne, and though her work is often labeled Modernist, she herself doesn’t subscribe to any label, considering the process of creation to be a spiritual journey rather than an academic one.