My name is Scott Patricio Garcia, born a confused soul, amidst many confused souls. Someone should have seen I was an artist from the start. Raised on Gabaldon Road, actually Padilla RD and Gabaldon, on the corner used to be a caboose, down the road still exists the Costanza Orchard . My Mom Juliet Gallegos, from Los Lunas and my Father Armilo Garcia, from Ceyboyetta, Raised me on a farm. Where some old school values and visions were part of my life. I won first place award, at the age of 10 for a oil painting of Las Trampas Church.  But My First exposure to art came from my Aunt Ruth Perea who painted and my Mom could draw the most amazing portraits and cartoons with a simple bic pen, my Dad could carve, so could my grandfather, although they never did anything but entertain me by carving a trinket, of a head or a roadrunner, to keep a busy kid occupied. It wasn't until I graduated from UNM with an Architectural Degree did I ever consider art as a profession. I began painting and simple, folk art, carvings. I sold some pieces at the New Mexico State Fair, now called Expo New Mexico. In 2004 I won my second first place ribbon for carving, and a bout of Anaphalactic Shocks, from some unkown thing. I couldn't work and only carve and paint for short periods.. and I had jurried into CHM, The Contemporary Hispanic Market. That was my beginnings, Mr John Boggs interviewed me for New Mexico Magazine 2009.  2006 First Place Amateur Carver, 2006 Honorable Mention Spanish Arts, 2006 First Place Amateur Santero, 2011 Honorable Mention Expo NM Spanish Arts, 2011 Avientado Award Contemporary Hispanic Market.
- Scott P. Garcia

Featured in 25Years of CHM JULY 2011

Featured in New Mexico Magazine November 2009

There is no art without a Rose.