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.

Gregory Stocks | A Light Through the Trees

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Gregory Stocks | Warm Fade, oil, 24 x 48.

Gregory Stocks paints expressive, richly hued landscapes

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Chad Poppleton | Big Game Savvy

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Chad Poppleton | Tough dining, oil, 22 x 28.

Utah painter Chad Poppleton portrays wild animals 
with the accuracy they deserve

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Huihan Liu | Building Bridges

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Peace of Himalayan, oil, 24 x 36.

Huihan Liu’s vibrant portraits forge bonds between the people of China, Tibet, and the United States

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Duke Beardsley | Pop Goes the Cowboy

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Tres Hombres

Duke Beardsley synthesizes a modernist sensibility and ranching roots

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Richard McKinley | Misty Memories

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Summer Color

Richard McKinley paints transcendent scenes of the landscape in Oregon and beyond

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Jeffrey R. Watts | In Fechin’s Footsteps

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The Craftsman, oil, 40 x 50

Jeffrey R. Watts continues a master’s tradition

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Tom and Barbara Hill | Shared Passion

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Tom Huill, Abandoned, oil, 20 x 30.

Tom and Barbara Hill weave love, art, and talent into an enviable life

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Portfolio | Water Works

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Summer Afternoon at Loch Vale, oil, 18 x 24.

Six painters share their interpretations of water in the landscape

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John and Terri Moyers | Painting for Love

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John and Terri Moyers enjoy successful, separate careers that thrive on mutual support

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Kenny McKenna | The Music of the Brush

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Long Lake at Wind River, oil, 15 x 28.

Kenny McKenna paints the western landscapes he used to drive by on the way to his band’s next gig

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