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Sean Wallis is a painter based in Salt Lake City, Utah. As an impressionist, Wallis pays close attention to the relationship of light and color, capturing fleeting moments with the texture of oil paint, loose brushwork and colorful palette. His work with light, hue, and atmosphere manifest through a skillful combination of colors that vibrates and excites the eye, resulting […]

Water features prominently in many of your landscapes—what draws you to it as a recurring element Though many of my paintings feature water in some way, my experience with it feels like it has become largely aesthetic.  I’m interested in how water divides the picture into shapes, echoes or reflects the overall color palette and gives […]

What is a polyptych? A polyptych (pronounced ” /ˈpolytik/) is a painting made of two or more panels (a polyptych is a painting divided into any number of panels, usually four or more). Traditionally, diptychs were used as alter pieces, or ancient writing tablets, connected by a hinge so the panels could be closed and […]

We always talk about art you love to live with, but what about the art of framing? It’s easy to defer to the experts and the artists, but here are a few tips to keep in mind so you can be more informed when deciding about frames. “Frame” versus “float frame” versus “shadow box” A […]

Written by Norman Kolpas Peter Campbell featured in Western Art & Architecture, April/May 2025 Peter Campbell featured in Western Art & Architecture, April/May 2025 Peter Campbell featured in Western Art & Architecture, April/May 2025 Peter Campbell featured in Western Art & Architecture, April/May 2025 View the article Artist Spotlights: Peter Campbell in Western Art & […]

Heather Foster has always been interested in drawing and painting. Starting at an early age, Foster took after school art classes at a local community center. Throughout high school, she attended extracurricular art classes at Moore College of Art, the Philadelphia College of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1990 Foster received […]

Sarah Lamb has been an artist since her hair was long enough to paint with. Her family, saw that she “was drawn to art – painting and drawing, mostly – and decided to enroll me in art classes. It just took off from there!”  Later on, a 2-week oil painting workshop in Santa Fe with Jacob Collins […]

Wo r k i n g in a studio that over- looks the historic square in Saint Jo, Texas, Donna Howell-Sickles is surrounded by the tools and atmosphere she needs to create her award-winning paintings and drawings of women who inspire her: cow-girls. She previously worked in a studio—a former church—in the city, but left […]