Maura Allen's work combines more than 20 years of black and white photography with a decade of painting, printmaking and welding.
Allen uses recognizable images, textures of faded and worn surfaces to create an elongated sense of time, a feeling of a bygone era. The work is branded with metaphor and iconic representation similar to film. Most believe that the…
Duke Beardsley was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. He received a BA in Art History from Middlebury College, and a BFA in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In 1998, Duke moved home to Denver where he began his art career with his first one-man show.
Duke's interest in drawing has been a constant…
Like father, like son. So it is with artist Teal Blake and his father, Buckeye Blake, well-known western artist.
While growing up, Teal was surrounded by western art and the creators of that genre. His father's artist friends, Gary Carter, William Mathews, Vel Miller and Dave Powell, were frequent visitors to the Blake home and studio. Young Teal listened in…
Originally from
Tempe, Arizona, Nelson Boren credits his mother as his earliest artistic
influence. A painter, she only allowed Nelson to hang posters in his
bedroom that he had painted. While studying architecture at Arizona State
University, Boren elected to take a watercolor course taught by one of his most
respected professors. Discouraged by his inability to paint as well…
Statement:
I hope my paintings capture “ the feel of the rush of life.” I
want to show what it is like to be amongst horses in a great open country.
I paint as a means of capturing and the blood and bone responses
of the horse in images of speed, freedom, alarm, curiosity and exuberance. In
the horse’s alertness…
Artist Statement
"I got my start in art
probably the same way every other artist does: as soon as I could hold a
crayon, drawing with anything that made a mark on anything that didn't move
real fast. I drew probably the same thing every other young girl draws: horses.
I wanted to be John James Audubon - ah, to…
Artist's Statement: A sixth generation New Zealander, I was born in Hastings in 1949 and lived in Warkworth before immigrating with my family to the U.S. My childhood in New Zealand has a major influence on my work and choice of subject matter. I have lived in Oak Creek Canyon, a few miles north of Sedona, for thirty years.
My…
Greg English has a natural eye for light source and believes "knowing how to blend light and shadow" is the key to drawing the observer into his paintings. Viewing Greg's work one would never believe he has had no formal training. His passion for detail and realism surfaced around the age of 10 as he drew and sketched everything that…
Ray was born and raised in northern California. As a young boy, he didn't want any toys, just a ball of clay, paperclips and rubber bands to make his own toys. Drawing was something that was a high priority for Ray. He then started to paint when a back injury stopped his avid participation in sports. He painted constantly to…
Researching the history of the people he paints and sculpts, Mike Larsen spends much of his studio time with books. Accuracy in regalia and dress tell much about his subjects. For over forty years, he has spent his life as a full time artist.
Born in 1944 of Chickasaw heritage, Mike grew up in farming communities in Oklahoma and Texas.…
As a young boy Alvin Marshall was taken from his home on a Navajo reservation and placed in a boarding school where he was not permitted to speak the Navajo language or practice its traditions. By the age of ten he had lost both of his parents and it was his grandparents that taught him his Navajo culture. Marshall served in…
Born in Massachusetts and raised as an "Air Force brat," I saw my first real cowboys, ranches and rodeos through the window of our station wagon, while bickering with my two younger sisters in the back seat on cross-country trips to new duty stations. And I savored our stops at cafes, gas stations, tourist traps and classic motels. With each…
From Marcia Molnar's first memories, she has thought of herself as an artist. Her father, Jay Schmidt, was an artist and a gallery owner, therefore art materials and art books were readily available. Marcia has taken a few art classes but for the most part her training came naturally from day to day surroundings and meeting other artists. She met…
“I took the leap from
realism to impressionism and beyond, suggesting movement and creating action
with a palette knife. Inspired by
animals and color everywhere. That’s
what Montana will do to you.”
In 2007 Moore was honored
with the Ralph “Tuffy” Berg Award at the C.M. Russell Museum Auction and Exhibition. A 2006
highlight was exhibiting with five other Montana…
Erik
Petersen was born in Lompoc, California in 1976 and now lives in Prescott,
Arizona. He began drawing and
painting at a very young age. This
inspired the life long passion for art that led him to work at a bronze sculpture
foundry starting in 1996. For the next nine years, seven of which he
specialized as a patina artist,…
Kevin Red Star
was born on the Crow Indian Reservation in lodge Grass, Montana. In a family that valued art, music and
culture, he developed an early love of drawing and music. Red Star was one of the 160 students
chosen to attend the newly established Institute of American Indian Arts in
Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he was encouraged…
BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY
"In 1617, my family came to this country with a charter from the king allowing them to govern.
Two hundred years later they loaded up their linens and their Lomoges and headed West.
It took them twenty years to go from New York to California. Along the way, towns were lived in, elections were held, and babies were born.…
Rob Stern is a native Montana artist, educated at the University of Montana, where he studied Business Marketing and Fine Arts.
Stern has worked in the art arena most of his life. Tutored primarily in the areas of commercial design, he has worked for such companies as The United States Olympic Committee, The Tandy Corporation, Nacona Boots, The Denver Zoo,…
Shirley Thomson-Smith was born in 1929 in St. Louis, studied art at the University of Oklahoma Art School, and lived in Durango, Colorado in the 1950's and early 1960's. She has been a member of the National Academy of Western Art (NAWA), now called the Prix de West show, since 1985, and lives in Oklahoma.
She has observed American Indian,…
Tal Walton was born in 1965 and attended Brigham Young University, receiving a bachelor's degree in painting and sculpture. Walton was influenced by his professor, who taught him that a good painting is laid out according to logical symmetry. His work encompasses the use of three part divisions, a component that relates to his Mormon beliefs. The three divisions found…
Rod Zullo was born in 1965 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. At the age of five, Rod's grandmother, a painter, encouraged his parents to send him to private art lessons with a well-known Buck's Country impressionist. The consummate student of art, Rod continually searches for his own truth. Traveling abroad has exposed him to a variety of art styles, mediums and…
