Trekking poles, camping gear, and hiking boots – essential tools for Terry Gardner’s painting practice – fill one corner of his studio, ready and accessible for sojourns into Colorado’s public lands where he frequently travels for inspiration. “Every summer, I map out hikes,” he says. “I...
In the fall of 2019, photographer Adam Jahiel got a call from Susan Wolfe, an art director he’d done some work for years ago. She had a project she wanted to run by him. The clients, she explained, were shy, sometimes difficult to read. They...
Texas Hill Country is remarkable for its quiet yet rugged beauty, where rolling limestone hills, aromatic evergreen brush, and wildflower meadows flank rivers that flow under vast blue skies. Quaint towns offer cinematic refinement without pretense. Here, an old-soul Texas ethos endures. On a stretch of...
No, you haven’t been there. But you think you have; in fact, you might commit perjury in an attempt to prove it. That is the mystery of the art of Francis DiFronzo, a Pew Fellow, whose paintings defy realism and entice the observer to sincerely believe...
Most art comes with a price tag. But that’s not always the best indicator of whether its value will endure over time. In this issue, we’re looking at the intangible qualities that affect the value of art. We spoke with hyperrealist painter Daniel Sprick, art...
Jeff Ware started collecting Western art years before he met, by chance, artist Karmel Timmons. It didn’t take them long to realize a shared passion for art, which was just the start of a beautiful relationship. We caught up with the busy couple who, when not...
Happy birthday, America! You don’t look a day older than 250. At the dawn of the nation’s birthday year, shows and sales put on their best red, white, and blue and trotted out some of the finest work to come to market in recent years. International...
True design, according to Tanner Morgan of Morgan Madison Design, relies heavily on building a relationship with the client. “It’s not a dictatorship, but I’m not going to be your shopping buddy either,” he says. “I’m giving the client what they want, but I’m also...
Artists never cease to amaze me with their absolute dedication to craft and their drive to keep working despite regular visits from art’s capricious muse: One day is bliss, the next, pure struggle, uphill all the way. No matter, artists keep returning to the studio...
The Western installation-fiber-art duo Emilie Odeile and Ken Chapin are so in sync that they regularly finish each other’s sentences. Like when talking about winning an Arts in Society grant through Colorado Creative Industries, to make a life-sized replica of Margaret Wise Brown’s children’s book...