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.

Tim Horn | Beyond Main Street

Tim Horn, Out of the Blue, oil, 8 x 10.

Tim Horn captures the light of everyday moments.

Francis Livingston | Realities Reimagined

Steam Powered, oil, 40 x 60.

Step into the enthralling worlds of Francis Livingston’s imagination

David Hettinger | Light on Life

Summer Breeze, oil, 24 x 30.

American impressionist David Hettinger illuminates everyday scenes

Douglas Fryer | Seeing the Soul

East Pasture, oil on panel, 16 x 36.

Landscape painter Douglas Fryer perceives beauty in forgotten and overlooked places

Richard Hall | Something Completely Different

Breakout, oil, 24 x 36.

Richard Hall’s trompe-l’oeil paintings beguile with wit and nostalgia

Elaine Coffee | Art Imitates Life

Two Chardonnays, Please, oil, 22 x 28.

Figurative painter Elaine Coffee captures culture in action

Cheri Christensen | Back to the Farm

Tread Lightly, oil, 36 x 48.

Cheri Christensen’s passion for painting returns to her ranching roots

William Matthews | On a Western Tangent

Gamble Ranch Granary #25, watercolor, 14 x 29.

William Matthews poses himself a 
fresh creative challenge in multiple mediums

Jonathan Ahn | Two Worlds

Through the Dragon Gate, oil, 48 x 48.

Jonathan Ahn takes dramatically different approaches to his cityscapes and figurative works

Leon Loughridge | A Life in Art

Along Canyon Road, woodblock print, 12 x 12.

Leon Loughridge carves out a sense of place in the West