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.

Renato Muccillo | Landscapes of the Heart

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Renato Muccillo | Scots Pine at Dawn, oil, 16 x 16.

Renato Muccillo creates emotionally charged landscapes of his native British Columbia

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Carolyn Anderson | Poetic Visions

Dec 15th, 11 / 0 Comments
Carolyn Anderson | Nude, oil, 9 x 12.

Carolyn Anderson’s distinctive style balances abstraction and realism

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Bryce Cameron Liston | Soulful Beauty & Figurative Painting

Dec 15th, 11 / 0 Comments
The Fledgling, oil, 24 x 36.

Bryce Cameron Liston captures the universal human experience

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Kathrine Lemke Waste | A Closer Look

Dec 15th, 11 / 0 Comments
Satsuma Mandarins, watercolor, 17 x 21.

Kathrine Lemke Waste captures fleeting moments in exquisite still-life paintings

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Dave Santillanes | Poetry of Place

Nov 15th, 11 / 0 Comments
Dave Santillanes, Into the Void, oil, 18 x 24.

Plein-air painter Dave Santillanes holds an intimate conversation with nature

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Hsin-Yao Tseng | Old and New Worlds

Nov 15th, 11 / 0 Comments
Hsin-Yao Tseng | The Cranes, oil, 14 x 14.

Hsin-Yao Tseng draws on ancient and modern 
aesthetics to portray the world around him

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Robert Lemler | Against the Tide

Nov 15th, 11 / 0 Comments
Robert Lemler | Near Telluride, oil, 12 x 16.

Painter Robert Lemler has charted his own artistic course

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Seth, Simon, and Adam Winegar

Oct 17th, 11 / 0 Comments
Simon Winegar, Through the Other Side, oil, 24 x 30.

By Gussie Fauntleroy Brothers Seth, Simon, and Adam Winegar were taught young to “play well together,” and they still do. For the brothers—all three Utah-based landscape painters—playing well together today means, among other things, cheering each other’s accomplishments and not nosing in on each other’s gallery scene. “We don’t want to step on each other’s [...]

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Ramon, Adam, and Benjamin Kelley

Oct 17th, 11 / 0 Comments
Benjamin Kelley, Aspen Gold, pastel, 18 x 24.

By Bonnie Gangelhoff Adam and Benjamin Kelley recall that, as young children, they loved hanging out in their father’s studio. Ramon Kelley talked and joked with them, but then suddenly he would grow quiet, pick up a paintbrush or pastel stick, and begin to work. “We were always welcome in dad’s studio. We could feel [...]

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Preston Singletary and Dante Marioni | Glass Art

Oct 17th, 11 / 0 Comments
A collaborative glass vessel in progress.

Glass art masters Preston Singletary and Dante Marioni collaborate on an extraordinary body of work

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