Feature Articles

By Bonnie Gangelhoff Birds, big cats, and bears: Daniel Glanz captures them all in his energetic and powerful bronze pieces. Glanz is known for his ability to depict a creature’s movement, whether it’s a lumbering elephant or an eagle in flight. “I think there is a disconnect between people and animals today,” he says. “Most [...]

By Bonnie Gangelhoff Michael Ome Untiedt is fond of saying he paints the world with a westerner’s eye. Part of the reason for this, Untiedt explains, is that he grew up on an eastern Colorado farm. It seems that no matter where he travels—whether it’s to County Cork in Ireland or to the Texas Panhandle—he [...]

By Bonnie Gangelhoff From working in Texas as an engineer for an oil company to working in Colorado as an oil painter, Stacey Peterson has seen a wide swing in her career path. Since early childhood, she had a love of art, but she also excelled in math and science. After graduating from the Colorado [...]

By Bonnie Gangelhoff For David Nittmann, wood has been a way of life for as long as he can remember. When he was growing up in Bolton Landing, NY, his great-grandfather and grandfather were boat builders. “They gave me the feeling that wood is just a wonderful substance to work with,” Nittmann says. He recalls [...]

By Bonnie Gangelhoff James Biggers is fortunate enough to call the area surrounding majestic Rocky Mountain National Park his home. But sometimes in winter, when temperatures drop to single digits, Biggers escapes to the sunny climes of Mexico for a brief respite. In this year’s Governor’s show Biggers is presenting VILLAGE LAGOON, a painting inspired [...]

By Bonnie Gangelhoff When James G. Moore was growing up, he enjoyed making noise and creating a general racket around the house, until his parents finally begged for mercy. Later, as an adult and while on assignments for the navy in far-flung locales such as China, Thailand, and Japan, he began collecting musical instruments native [...]

By Bonnie Gangelhoff For Michelle Torrez there is nothing more interesting as subject matter than a living, breathing, thinking human being. “Some artists who paint landscapes have so much to say about them,” Torrez says. “I just don’t have as much to say about a bush as I do about a human. Every single human [...]

By Bonnie Gangelhoff New Mexico-based painter Linda St. Clair treasures living in the West. Among other things, one of her attractions to the region is the access to a wide variety of animal species, ranging from grizzly bears to gray wolves. For her painting HORSES OF A DIFFERENT COLOR, St. Clair was inspired by a [...]