About Santa Fe

Welcome to Rainbow Gate, home of colorful, handmade, hand painted dinnerware and pottery. Enjoy our vibrantly themed ceramic plates, bowls, cups, teapots, vases and more...brilliantly painted with a variety of motifs including: Birds, Fruit Plates, southwest charm, critters and a vast array of Rainbow Ware colors.

Not far from Santa Fe, on the road to Lower Colonias in the conifer forests high in the mountains above Pecos, New Mexico you might notice one very different kind of metal gate of the type usually seen closing a gap in the barbed wire fences of the ranches out west. This one has its horizontal bars painted the colors of the spectrum. It is the rainbow gate, and beyond it is the home and studios of the artists Allan Walter and Jenny Lind. When they decided in 1994 to start a ceramic art business in Santa Fe, it was an easy decision to name the new enterprise Rainbow Gate, perfectly conveying the artists' sensibility and passion for color.

New Mexico's colors are the colors of the sun and the earth and the sky. The colors of Spain. Literally. Look at the flags and you will see the same colors. The golden yellow of the sun and the red of the earth. And then, in Santa Fe, that sky behind the flag! A blue so chromatic that its saturation penetrates through the eyes to the soul. We think of places in colors of their artists. Goya, Picasso and Miro color Spain. Perhaps more than any other, Georgia O'Keefe has colored New Mexico.

In New Mexico colors are revealed by an extraordinary light - light so clear and intense it has always inspired artists - from Anasazi masters to Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keefe to the not yet known masters working in Santa Fe and Taos today. Illuminated by that extraordinary light, New Mexico works its numinous way with artists. The light sculpts as well as paints and in the art of ceramics, especially, a powerful synthesis of beauty is possible. These things of elemental essences are found in the ceramic art of Rainbow Gate.