Kathleen Frank’s oil paintings portray the natural world with lively patterns inspired by her training in woodblock printmaking; exuberant color rooted in a love of Mexican and Central American culture; and a heightened sense of drama derived from her familiarity with the geography and weather...
Steve Latimer has legitimately considered himself a fine artist of Western scenes for most of his 77 years. Yet, for the past four decades, he has lived in the Central Florida city of Lakeland, and it was only three years ago that he experienced the...
For as far back as he can remember, Ken Williams Jr. has loved collecting artwork made by Native peoples, including those of his and his mother’s tribe, the Arapaho of Wyoming, as well as his father’s Seneca tribe, on whose reservation he grew up near...
Levi Wilson founded the respected decorative lighting company Hammerton in Salt Lake City, Utah, back in 1995. Today, as its vice president of design, he’s spearheading the effort to rebrand its high-end Hammerton Signature series as “a true couture line” of home lighting products. The...
Taylor Crisp can pinpoint the moment she decided to become a painter. Seven years ago, soon after graduating from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts with the goal of writing for television and film, she went to the now-departed Leanin’ Tree Museum...
Mike Stidham may portray a wide variety of fish coveted by anglers, along with the land and waterscapes where the finny prey are found. But don’t mistakenly call him a fish artist. “I play with colors and masses and shapes,” laughs the ever-jovial painter, who...
Larry Yaw has always found his art to be an avocational outlet and also a dynamic creative tool, working as he does in architecture, a field in which most ideas “begin with a series of thumbnail sketches.” As one of the founding partners of the...
The cylindrical glass coffee table fabricated by Bullseye Studio seems magically lit from within. Yet, the sculptural object contains no internal source of illumination. Instead, any trace of natural light sets the elegantly streamlined, amber-hued structure aglow. The one-of-a-kind object, made for a private client...
One autumn afternoon in 2016, Karen Vance set out on a painting jaunt from her home in Winter Park Ranch, Colorado. Her destination was 40 minutes north in Rocky Mountain National Park: Bowen-Baker Gulch, where snowmelt-fed headwaters of the Colorado River flow beneath Baker Mountain....
Andrew Denman reimagines wildlife painting within a context of contemporary and modern art, dramatically shifting viewers’ perceptions. Take, for example, The Usual Suspects. The acrylic-on-cradled-board work presents 20 impeccably contoured ravens — some compositionally cropped along its edges — in four neat lineups against a...