About the Artist

Having lived in New Mexico for 36 years, it's easy to see that the beautiful New Mexico sky, landscape and ethnic diversity have influenced Fensterer's work.

Largely a self-taught artist, Fensterer attended many demonstrations and classes facilitated by local artists in New Mexico; joining art organizations and completing art studio classes at the University of New Mexico while studying Organizational Learning and Communication.

Having most of her working career in human resource administration, today Fensterer is a full time professional artist with residences in New Mexico and Oklahoma.

Whether living, vacationing or passing through the States, Canada, and Central America Fensterer brings to her work universal visual communication surpassing time and space.

In a time of processes of negotiation, boarders, fences, war, peace and globalization, Fensterer's work reminds us that humans share universal practices of community through which meaning is made out of the visual, aural, and textural world of representation.

Fensterer's work is about things that are positive in cultures, representing shared emotions, feelings, wants and desires…focusing on the pleasant, and moving…like happiness, love, family, clean food and water, support and safety for all our children: Believing "if you can visualize it, you can attain it."

Drawing and painting is Fensterer's media of choice to invest the images she creates with significant power to conjure an absent person, place or thing, calm or incite to action, persuade or mystify…In agreement with master artist, Leo Neufeld: "…I believe art is surely a path to enlightenment. Art will always be with us. It is part of who we are."