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.

Barry McCuan, Lynne Windsor

Barry McCuan, Pedernal From Ghost Ranch, oil, 18 x 24.

By Gussie Fauntleroy There was a time, early in their marriage, when Barry McCuan might look over Lynne Windsor’s shoulder as she stood at her easel and say something like, “You know, there’s just one thing … ” about the painting on which she was working. For maintaining harmony in the relationship, it was not [...]

Julio Reyes | Telling Stories

Julio Reyes | The Watchmen, graphite, 14 x 19.

California artist Julio Reyes composes new classics

Mark and Eli Hopkins

Mark Hopkins, Downriver Run, bronze, 19 x 37 x 17.

By Rosemary Carstens Father and son sculptors Mark and Eli Hopkins were born in the deep South, and both, as Mark says, “have a deeply rooted sense of American heritage” that is frequently reflected in their art. While each artist works with wildlife and figurative subjects, Mark’s sculptures tend toward the classical, with what he [...]

Aleksander and Lyuba Titovets

Aleksander Titovets, Downtown, oil, 48 x 60.

By Gussie Fauntleroy Aleksander and Lyuba Titovets were recently both commissioned to create paintings capturing the instant of uncertainty and fear before an act of great courage—David confronting Goliath or Peter stepping out of the boat to walk on water to Jesus. It’s a theme that hits home with the Titovetses, who met as young [...]

Jacqueline and Stacy Kamin

Jacqueline Kamin, Geraniums with Peaches, oil, 18 x 24.

By Bonnie Gangelhoff When Jacqueline Kamin was growing up in Washington, DC, her parents often took her to exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art. “By the time I was 16, I had seen amazing paintings by John Singer Sargent,” she recalls. Jacqueline went on to study painting at the nearby Corcoran College of Art [...]

Kirk and James Randle

James Randle, Antiques, oil, 15 x 17.

By Rosemary Carstens What happens when one family includes both a landscape artist and an urbanscape painter? You get talent in two genres and some lively dinner-table conversations. Utah painters Kirk Randle and his son James share a deep belief in the importance of hard work and have applied that ethic with gusto to achieve [...]

Greg Scheibel | Right Under the Sky

Greg Scheibel, Vermillion Cliffs at Dusk, oil, 18 x 24.

Oil painter Greg Scheibel earns his plein-air stripes in the great outdoors

Robert Moore | A Glorious Accord

Robert Moore | Summer Cows, oil, 36 x 48.

Idaho artist Robert Moore paints spectrums beyond his perception

Brian Slawson | Everyday Magic

Brian Slawson | Tropic, oil, 20 x 30.

Brian Slawson conjures the light fantastic to create realistic paintings with an element of mystery

Adrian Gottlieb | Young Master

Adrian Gottlieb | Anticipation, oil.

Adrian Gottlieb follows centuries-old traditions 
to create contemporary figurative oils