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.

Henry Moore | Sculpting The 20th Century

A new Henry Moore retrospective travels the country

Wendeline Matson | Between the Lines

Wendeline Matson’s innovative still lifes are more complex than they first appear

Melissa Chandon | Mid-Century Memories

Melissa Chandon’s minimalist yet sophisticated paintings depict 20th-century Americana

21 Under 31 | Annie Henrie

Utah artist Annie Henrie

Kent Ullberg | Celebrating Nature

Kent Ullberg‘s wildlife monuments rise as totems to modern life

Top Emerging Artist of 2009 | Bryan Mark Taylor

By Bonnie Gangelhoff When Bryan Mark Taylor was growing up in Utah, backpacking, fishing, and camping in the mountains were an important part of his life. Reflecting back on those times, Taylor says he has no doubt that today his love of painting outdoors is tied to the warm memories associated with these childhood pursuits. [...]

Success Stories | Jeff Legg

By Bonnie Gangelhoff Even in his youth, Jeff Legg was drawn to an Old World style of art apprenticeship, absorbing all he could on a one-to-one basis from an artist mentor—in his case, art professor Darrell Dishman in Legg’s home state of Missouri. The young painter later went on to complete demanding classical drawing and [...]

Joe Paquet | Everyday Poetry

Landscape artist Joseph Paquet seeks to transcend mere description

Native Arts | Emmi Whitehorse

The atmospheric paintings of Emmi Whitehorse

Phil Epp

Like the Kansas weather, Epp cleanses the environment, leaving scant evidence of the passage of humanity.