The Collection

Living and working in Taos, New Mexico, Dinah Worman finds endless inspiration in the surrounding landscapes. Her paintings are instantly recognizable for their clarity and depth, with light filtering through trees, streams, and clouds to infuse each piece with vitality. She continually renews her vision, pressing beyond method into a flow of creative instinct, using pastel, oil, acrylic, or printmaking to express herself through unusual compositions and expanding viewpoints.

Worman’s work ranges from representational depictions to imaginative variations that explore humanity’s relationship with the land. She seeks both the “bones” of the landscape—the openness of arid climates and the layered geometry of cultivated fields—and the compositional intrigue of cluttered, intimate scenes. This duality informs her aerial perspectives and bold foregrounds, where the landscape becomes as much a still life as a panorama. Her modern interpretations often appear stark, abstract, or flattened, dotted with white-faced cows in trapezoidal fields—visions that emerge, as she describes, from a deeply subconscious level.

A Master Pastelist with the Pastel Society of America, Worman has been featured in Southwest Art, The Pastel Journal, The Artist’s Magazine, and numerous newspapers. Her work appears in books including Art Journey America: Landscapes and Art Journey: New Mexico, and she has been recognized with significant honors, including Best of Show for her oil painting History of a Field at the 2013 Coors Art Show and Sale, National Western Stock Show, highlighted in Western Art & Architecture. Her paintings have also been acquired for public and museum collections, including the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos.