Howard Post’s sense of Tucson is steeped in his bones. As the often-cloudless, solid sky clears a space for contemplation, shadows slide across the desert. His oil paintings reflect a profound understanding of the land. The horses he paints are the horses of his life....
In a world that can often be overwhelming, Colorado artist Jane Hunt finds solace and inspiration in the quiet beauty of the landscape. Her paintings, however, do not portray the grandiose scenes that easily inspire awe, such as detailed depictions of the rust-red expanse of...
Scott Christensen and Quang Ho both have close, personal relationships with the West, which is what the two artists have in common — this and the simple fact that they have spent their entire lives pushing pigment across once-white canvases. The parallels between the two artists,...
ARCHITECTURE | Signum Architecture CONSTRUCTION | Knittel Construction LANDSCAPE DESIGN | Roche + Roche Landscape Architecture INTERIOR DESIGN | Shawback Design Driving down the country road that leads to this elegant farmhouse nestled on one of the few remaining sites on the floor of the Napa Valley feels a...
Landscape painter Brad Teare draws his visual inspiration from the intimate valleys and snowy mountain peaks around his home in Northern Utah’s glorious Cache Valley. However, perhaps the real subject of Teare’s impressionist work is the paint itself — the paint and the artist’s ability to...
ARCHITECTURE | Neumann Mendro Andrulaitis Architects CONSTRUCTION | J. Weston Custom Construction Kevon Zehner’s hunt for a buildable lot in Santa Barbara, California, took him to all sorts of rugged hillsides and canyons. Yet none had the combination of views and access he and his husband, Ron...
ARCHITECTURE | CLB Architects CONSTRUCTION | KWC INTERIOR DESIGN | HSH Interiors Although homeowners Tiffanie DeBartolo and her husband, Scott Schumaker, liked the renderings that architect Eric Logan and his team at CLB Architects had drawn up for their new home outside of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, DeBartolo needed...
“Before I start painting,” says Esteban Cabeza de Baca, “it’s usually a very euphoric moment of ideation.” The artist’s dynamic, brightly colored, visionary works transmit this quality of euphoria. They express the deep, inseverable connections between all forms of life; between past, present, and future; and...
What happens when the lights are turned off? “When you’re a little kid, that’s when the monsters come out,” says Western painter Grant Redden. When you’re older, a moonlit night can bring a sense of peaceful quiet and mystery. Both feelings, and many in between,...
“Our little planet floats like a mote of dust in the morning sky,” wrote the late, revered American astronomer Carl Sagan. “All that you see, all that we can see, exploded out of a star billions of years ago, and the particles slowly arranged themselves...