Craig O'Brien

Featured in Southwest Art magazine, Free Rein brings together works by six longtime gallery artists — Heather Foster, Terry Gardner, Donna Howell-Sickles, Amy Lay, Amy Laugesen and Joel Ostlind — alongside new talent Maura Allen. Each artist explores themes of freedom, responsibility, rugged terrain, and the lived experience of ranch life through painting, sculpture, mixed media, and printmaking.  The exhibition’s title reflects […]

By Bonnie Gangelhoff Brett Scheifflee is a nationally recognized landscape painter whose oil paintings explore atmosphere, memory, and the emotional resonance of place. His approach to landscape painting balances technical precision with emotional interpretation. He often works from reference material and memory, carefully constructing compositions that convey both realism and a sense of lived experience. […]

Rick Stevens is a Santa Fe–based contemporary landscape artist whose work balances expressive spontaneity with a deep reverence for the natural world. Drawing inspiration from the rhythms, forms, and energy of the outdoors, Stevens translates these experiences into rich, evocative paintings that juxtapose color, texture, and pattern in unexpected ways. His landscapes — from misty […]

For Sean Wallis, light is both a visual language and an emotional anchor. An impressionist deeply attuned to atmosphere and movement, Wallis approaches each painting by first listening to what the light is saying within a scene — how warmth and coolness interact, how sunlight can momentarily soften winter’s grip and how those fleeting conditions shape […]