Featured Artists

Each issue of Southwest Art magazine features in-depth profiles of top artists in the West and beyond. Browse this section to read interesting and compelling stories about artists’ lives and their techniques, artistic styles, and sources of inspiration. Each article is accompanied by plenty of images to show examples of the artists’ works—including sculpture and paintings in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic, and featuring subjects from western landscapes to cityscapes, figures, wildlife and animal art, still lifes, and more.

Kathleen Dunphy | The World in Real Time

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Kathleen Dunphy, Autumn’s End, oil, 12 x 16.

Kathleen Dunphy paints the ever-changing landscape

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Jerry Markham | Original Vision

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Jerry Markham, The Heart of Montana, oil, 28 x 32.

Jerry Markham explores the natural world with inimitable style

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Kate Sammons | An Artist’s Odyssey

May 15th, 13 / 0 Comments
Kate Sammons, Winter Chrysanthemums, oil, 8 x 10.

Kate Sammons incorporates a lifetime of aesthetic journeys into her still-life and figurative work

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Elizabeth Pollie | Heaven on Earth

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Elizabeth Pollie, The Sureness of Things, oil, 16 x 20.

Painter Elizabeth Pollie finds visual inspiration everywhere

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Mike Malm | Timeless Emotions

Apr 12th, 13 / 0 Comments
Mike Malm, Soft Spring Breeze, oil, 26 x 30.

Painter Mike Malm evokes the beauty and simplicity of an earlier time

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Nancy Bush | Fleeting Moments

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Nancy Bush, Alligator Haven, Aransas Wildlife Refuge, oil, 18 x 24.

Landscape artist Nancy Bush captures nature’s quiet, swiftly shifting moods

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Michelle Dunaway | A Sense of Aliveness

Mar 15th, 13 / 0 Comments
Michelle Dunaway | A New Beginning, oil, 16 x 26.

Michelle Dunaway’s portraits capture palpable, honest human emotions

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Scott Fraser | A Still-Life Master for Our Time

Mar 15th, 13 / 0 Comments
Scott Fraser | Jiffy Pop, oil, 27 x 39.

Scott Fraser combines the traditional and the contemporary in his new classics

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Charles Muench | The Sound of Silence

Mar 15th, 13 / 0 Comments
Charles Muench | The New, the Old, and the Ancient, oil, 28 x 40.

Communing with nature inspires Charles Muench

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Kathy Anderson | Drawn to the Garden

Mar 15th, 13 / 0 Comments
Kathy Anderson | Autumn Still Life With Sunflowers, oil, 24 x 30.

Kathy Anderson leads viewers 
on a passionate journey into nature

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