Andy Mast cannot recall the horrific 2009 accident that forever changed his life at the age of 17. Nor did anyone else see it happen. Yet, his ordeal ultimately led to his current triumph as an ever-more-widely heralded artist working in the ages-old medium of...
Nancy Seamons Crookston’s colorist paintings overbrim with joy. Working primarily in oils from her plein air studies and reference photos, she captures uplifting moments from the world all around her: children frolicking along the shoreline; horses and riders pausing for refreshment along a Rocky Mountain...
Whitney Gardner was camping and plein air painting last spring at Lost Dutchman State Park east of Phoenix. Before sunset one day, she decided to capture reference photos of the nearby Superstition Mountains, her view punctuated by a solitary saguaro and a blossoming ocotillo. “To...
Scott Baxter brings to his photographs of present-day American ranchers the insights of a scholar, the eyes of an artist, the magic of an alchemist, and the heart of a true friend. The results are images that go far beyond simply portraying their subjects, establishing...
Bridgette Meinhold paints large-scale landscapes inspired by the Mountain West she calls home, imbuing these artworks with an almost trancelike quality through the medium of encaustic. She applies as many as 20 separate thin layers of pigment-colored beeswax and three to four coats of milk-based...
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...