Barbara Berry seemed destined to create art. She grew up in an art-filled home in rural Pennsylvania near Philadelphia, and her talented mom earned money painting portraits of local children. “I would stand behind her and absorb it, and I assumed that I should be...
Susan Eddings Pérez arrived at the realization that she was, in fact, an abstract artist when the interior design clients for whom she’d been creating elaborate, atmospheric custom wall and ceiling finishes asked if they could keep, to display in their homes, the sample boards...
Images by Rudi Broschofsky may strike viewers as delightfully intriguing optical conundrums. Are they paintings or photographs? Two-dimensional surfaces or illusorily shimmering 3-D grids? Limited-edition prints or one-of-a-kind artworks? Such puzzlements, however, only speak to how successfully this Idaho-based artist has developed his approach to...
Kristine Poole’s fired-clay sculpture Duende offers an eloquent, poetic manifestation of the artist’s life and career. A reclining woman holds her right hand in the Palli Mudra, a yoga gesture connecting to one’s inner voice and self-confidence. On that hand rests a Brahminy kite, a...
Marz Doerflinger eloquently communicates through two mediums — sometimes pastels, sometimes acrylics — the quiet glories of the austere desert Southwest and the lush Pacific Northwest not far from her homes near Rio Verde, Arizona, and Olympia, Washington. She tends to avoid obvious scenic landmarks...
David Knowlton’s latest oil paintings harmoniously and dramatically juxtapose the human-made and natural worlds by placing majestic red-and-gold locomotives of the Santa Fe Railway and other cars of other lines against the backdrop of the Southwest’s iconic mesas and other landforms. Often, in fact, from...
William Hook’s recent Heads Up captures the discerning appeal of a realist painter at the top of his game. Against a distant Southwestern mountainscape, a vast blue sky, and a towering cumulus, wild sunflowers reach toward the heavens. Every element — composition, colors, and brushstrokes...
The unreality of the American West feels more real to Nicholas Ward. When the 28-year-old artist, who lives and paints in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, seeks out subjects for his large-scale canvases, he summons from his imagination a state of magical realism, with surrealist landscapes populated...
Cora Sexton Wheeler has never stopped trying to capture something she considers forever elusive. “You can never recreate what nature creates,” she says. And yet, the artist remains adamant about filling her canvases with scenes of ranch life, Western flora and fauna, mountain skylines, and...
Destiny Bowman devotes her artistic talents to two primary genres: portraits and still lifes. Those dual callings may at first seem antithetical; after all, figurative works celebrate living beings, while the term “still life” can sometimes seem like a demure way of referring to paintings...