Light plays a major role in the art and life of Josh Clare. The big-picture light is his strong Christian faith. Light is also the element he knew he wanted to harness and infuse throughout the 4,000-square foot studio he built near his Utah home in 2018.
The three-level structure has six 4-by-4-foot skylights above his painting area, and the way the lights works—illumination without direct sunlight—is the studio’s strongest asset. “It’s a beautiful, pleasing light to paint under,” Clare says.
A Utah native who studied art, he met Cambree, a horticulture major, on the Brigham Young-Idaho campus. The two later married and lived in Arizona for about two years, but the pull to Utah was showing up in Clare’s heart and his work, as he frequently found himself painting Utah landscape scenes.
Read the full article in the November/December 2025 issue.
Like A Child at Home
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36″ by 36″
Rainy Greens
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29″ by 29″
