The Galisteo Escarpment

<p>Neil Bronson new from the Royal Academy summers in Provence teaching himself to paint outside. Before returning home he and his friends Sam and Carrie rent a cottage on the coast playing a langorous triangle of seaside sexual attraction. Neil's uncle interrupts the idyll urgently seeking their help teaching at his art school in Santa Fe. A month later Bronson and Sam move into Casa Marriner and meet the faculty members several jealous and difficult. Bronson teaches plein air classes often at the Galisteo escarpment. At first the students are confrontational and awkward but they soon grasp his enthusiasm with the New Mexico landscape. While they learn new skills he refines his taking the escarpment as a major motif. Crisis at the school involves Bronson in a curious project and a trip abroad to Greece. Besides discovering himself in Santa Fe he explores the world of sex and love with one of his students Salazar. New York must wait.</p>