Featured Artists

Pastelist Clark Mitchell renders landscapes that soothe the soul

By Bonnie Gangelhoff Adding machines, lunch boxes, record players, and old suitcases are a few of Wendy Chidester’s favorite things. “I love painting anything that has been replaced and forgotten,” the Utah artist says. She gathers subject matter for her contemporary still lifes everywhere she can, from antique shops to city streets. She once came [...]

By Bonnie Gangelhoff When Matt Smith was working on his degree in painting at Arizona State University, he was discouraged by the school’s focus on abstract art. He soon found himself studying the painting styles of classic American landscape artists such as Maynard Dixon, William Herbert Dunton, and Edgar Payne. Today, all the hard work [...]

Dennis Doheny sets his sights on the California landscapes he knows and loves.

Beverly Blacksheep, Between Heaven and Earth [1998], acrylic, 32 x 18. By Anne Hillerman Traditional Painting Beverly Blacksheep The daughter and granddaughter of weavers, Beverly Blacksheep grew up on the Navajo reservation, herding sheep and spinning and carding wool. But painting, not weaving, captured her imagination. Her mother had a print by Harrison Begay in [...]

Addressing a variety of subjects, Crowley homes in on warmly lit details and provocative patterns.

California artist Gil Dellinger thinks and paints on a grand scale

Arizona artist Emily McPhie

Donna Howell-Sickles paints modern cowgirls who embody the joyous spirit of the West