Robin & Connie Doughman

Robin and Connie Doughman use their creativity, education, experience, and skills in their daily lives. They collaboratively produce art and artistically styled furniture and cabinetry that’s comfortable, durable, and designed to last for generations. Their studio is located in Lamy, New Mexico in the rural countryside of Santa Fe County.

Their classic furniture has been included in Rio Grande High Style, Interior Furnishings Southwest and Better Homes and Gardens Woodworking Projects. They are also known for their heirloom rocking toys reflective of the West and inspired by the creations of early American settlers and the graphic designs of Native Americans. Neiman Marcus and F.A.O. Schwartz, among others, have carried these items in stores across the country.

Robin was born and raised in Ohio and moved to Santa Fe in 1972. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wright State University, where he studied painting and drawing as well as graphics and education. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.The technique Robin uses in his painting is to build up many thin layers of paint creating a depth in the color itself. Robin states, “In my work I concentrate on color, light and space. This focus has a lot to do with living in the southwest where all three are so prominent.”

Connie was raised in a small town in West Virginia and her family later moved to Cincinnati, where she was enrolled in Cincinnati Art Museum classes to study drawing, watercolor and painting. She went on to receive an advanced art degree from Miami University in Ohio. Nature and spirituality are her primary influences in life and art. She states, “I work through stilling and meditation to empty my heart and to free my mind so it can be opened to receive images that rouse and inform me in my connection to change and the archetypal images I create through writing, art and sculpture.”

Independently, Connie was included in Elmo Baca’s article called “Designing Women” in New Mexico Magazine. In this article, Baca applauds the contributions of ten New Mexico women in the design arts, beginning with Mary Colter, Millicent Rogers, and Georgia O’Keeffe, and ending with seven contemporary women they inspired.