By the time oil painter Brittany Weistling was in high school, she had already shown at the Masters of the American West exhibition at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles, California. Her parents, both fine art painters, encouraged her and tutored her along the way. [caption...
Erik Nelson, co-owner of Bozeman, Montana’s Thinktank Design Group, a collaborative architectural firm, faced the challenge of creating a home that sat between a busy road and a blue-ribbon fly-fishing river. What he came up with was the Geode House. Located on the Gallatin River, the...
Holly Tornheim lives a life surrounded by the natural world, which she translates into the language of wood. She began with utilitarian carpentry and from there turned her attention to building custom doors. Gradually, first by creating furniture, she found her voice in her own...
The exhilaration of speed, of competition, of the long shadows flying behind: These are the fleeting seconds captured in the paintings of Abigail Gutting. Her work keeps you in the moment, whether it’s that of a rodeo or the wild pastures of Idaho. Carrying the...
Painter Lewis Williams straddles two worlds, one of the earth and one of the spiritual. His investigation into landscape painting exists alongside his calling to paint religious iconology. Both disciplines inform each other, but it is only through the ability to meditate on each brushstroke...
Colt Idol merges a nostalgic, emotional West with a contemporary use of color. While the Old West may not exist today, Idol’s work is inspired by the fearlessness of the lore and the natural beauty of the land. Glacier Daybreak | Oil on Linen | 40...
Greg Godsey, a partner in Heritage Restorations, is passionate about historic timber-frame barns. The company keeps 50 to 70 historic barn timber frames in storage lots in Texas and Montana, and it’s Godsey’s job to find the right frame for the right family. At the Lucky...
Ethan Stern uses glass — hot and molten, cold and cut — as a conveyor of light. Luminous and jewel-like, the objects he creates redefine traditional purposes. By engraving on the glass, Stern speaks to a long history of industrial cut glass but adds to...
Justin Wheatley paints portraits that present themselves as houses. Using the iconic image of the “perfect home,” Wheatley conveys ideas about suburbia, isolation and relationships. “My process is pretty organic,” Wheatley says. “I don’t do a lot of planning. I always wanted to be that person...
Oil painter Terry Gardner, an expressive tonalist, reaches for the essence of what it means to live in the West today while acknowledging the past. His work feels contemporary while at the same time touches on aspects of the historical. His paintings speak to the...