Archives for Landscape

Romantic Realism

April 8, 2026 | by Vicki Stavig

Landscape Artist Tom Perkinson Paints From Memory, Intuition, and the Mind’s Eye When viewing one of Tom Perkinson’s landscape paintings, you will catch yourself thinking, “Where did he see this?” The answer is simple: in his mind’s eye. “I’m an intuitive painter,” Perkinson says. “I’m a painter of fiction.” He’s not a plein air painter, and he doesn’t work from photographs, unless it’s a landmark structure. He simply looks inward, using his imagination to create—and then paint—whatever comes to him. And what comes to Perkinson are stunning landscapes filled with light and brilliant colors. “I want viewers to see
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The Studio of Heather Burton & Dave Santillanes

April 8, 2026 | by Joe Tougas

Colorado Artists Dave Santillanes and Heather Burton Find Inspiration in Their Dream Studio Near Pikes Peak Since meeting in Maui in 2014, artists Dave Santillanes and Heather Burton have been side by side in many ways: dating, marriage, parenting, and living as full-time artists in Colorado. Since September 2025, when they moved from Wellington, Colorado, to Colorado Springs, they have also been side by side when painting in their spacious studio on the main level of their home on the northern part of town near Black Forest. The main-level studio is the first room a visitor sees, and once
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The Grand Canyon Master

February 4, 2026 | by Vicki Stavig

Curt Walters Has Spent Nearly Six Decades Capturing the Majesty of the Grand Canyon It was love at first sight. Curt Walters was 19 when he first laid eyes on the Grand Canyon. “It changed my life,” he says. “There was an intensity to it—the depth, the layers, amazing clouds, and the atmosphere. It was like seeing the whole world at one time. I felt real joy there, and I was determined to paint it.” Today, 57 years later, Walters is still painting it. The Grand Canyon captured his soul and never let go. Several years ago, this magazine
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The West Goes Pop

December 8, 2025 | by Clover Cameron

Billy Schenck Revolutionized Western Art by Blending Pop Art, Hollywood, and Cowboy Culture Billy Schenck can’t draw, as he will tell you himself. “I was never a good draftsman,” he says. “I just can’t make stuff up and draw it from memory. I mean, I can draw cactus, I can draw trees, I can draw sagebrush—but hands, faces, horses? I have to use photographs.” Schenck isn’t being self-deprecating; that’s not his style, as he will also tell you. “I knew by the time I was 24 that I was going to alter the course of Western art, and that’s
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Quiet Majesty

December 8, 2025 | by Joe Tougas

Mark Boedges’ oil paintings are filled with a focused light, both subtle and brilliant, that captures the quiet majesty of the American West and the complexity of its varied landscape. His paintings weren’t always this way, however, and his path to clarity, both in his subject and in his life, was full of twists and turns. A St. Louis, Missouri, native, Boedges says that St. Louis wasn’t a hotbed of artistic activity, but its museums provided enough inspiration through works by Monet and other landscape painters to make an impression on him. “The Impressionists were the first big influence
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Renaissance Western Art

October 8, 2025 | by Mary Nelson

You might describe Colorado artists Olga and Aleksey Ivanov as contemporary Western art pioneers. Why? Because their partnership, medium, and technique stand out among Western artists. Their creativity is formed by intuition and collaboration—they paint together on the same canvas—storytelling, whimsy, symbolism, and a Renaissance art technique. Their harmonious paintings could be called the artistic equivalent of perfect pitch. “We are using one of the oldest techniques,” Olga says. “We are modern artists trying to connect the old medium to the modern vision of the West.” Vivid colors are the hallmark of the couple’s art—the result of using the
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The Studio of Josh Clare

October 8, 2025 | by Joe Tougas

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
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‘I Let the Land Speak to Me’

October 8, 2025 | by Vicki Stavig

Landscape artist Scott Christensen doesn’t let a painting go out the door until he is convinced that it is as perfect as it can be. And he doesn’t rush the process. “I’ve had some of my paintings for six to eight years,” he says. “I save them to see what the problems are.” He puts them away or turns them to the wall until he can look at them with a fresh eye and change anything that might need changing. Christensen’s self-imposed standards are high—and he paints because he loves to do so, not to win awards. “I don’t
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The Magic of the Desert

October 8, 2025 | by Madeline Cisneros

Canyons erupting from the earth. Cotton candy clouds looming over sunbaked cacti. Cowboys defying gravity, their weathered hands gripping the reins as their horses catapult them into the air. To landscape artist Josh Gibson, the desert Southwest is a powerful place. “It seems like, in terms of the geological formations and the kind of weather, there just aren’t other places that have that sort of thing going on,” he says. “The sunsets every day are a 10 out of 10. There are mountains that are huge blocks of rock coming out of very desolate desert plains. I haven’t really
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Poetic Landscapes

August 7, 2025 | by Mary Nelson

June Dudley’s vibrant paintings capture a moment in time, an emotion, a ghost of memory. Combined with dynamic lighting and design, her attunement with color creates a mood that is sometimes whimsical, sometimes majestic, but is always inviting and approachable. “One of my collectors told me, ‘I have not seen anyone painting in the vivid and vibrant colors and detail you do, and at the same time being able to capture and convey such powerful moods,’” Dudley says. “That pretty well sums up my goal in art.” The Texas artist has always had one goal: painting. Life doesn’t always
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