Jan 1, 2019 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
BORN IN MEDINA, MINNESOTA, and raised in Bozeman, Montana, Smith has spent twenty-seven years surrounded by the incredible wonders of Western wildlife and has worked to master the art of its accurate rendering. Smith studies nature with the acute eyes of a scientist,...
Jan 1, 2019 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
Karin Hollebeke Born 1949, in Wolfsburg, Germany; lives in Vernal, Utah GERMAN BORN HOLLEBEKE, a professional artist since 1972, currently lives, paints and ranches in Utah. Hollebeke first became interested in art while in her teens, and consequently studied Fine...
Jan 1, 2019 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
Greg Kelsey Born 1971, in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma; lives in Ignacio, Colorado AN HONEST LOOK at Greg Kelsey’s sculpture reveals his intensity for both form and subject. No matter the subject, it is his belief that form is the most significant thing about a sculpture....
Jan 1, 2019 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
“WHAT I DESIRE FOR THE ART I CREATE, “says Curt Mattson, “is a piece that is compelling and artistically challenging, one that will grab viewers’ attention and not let them go.” That Mattson succeeds is due in part to a lifetime of involvement with one of his favorite...
Jan 1, 2019 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
JOSEPH MCGURL IS ONE OF AMERICA’S most prominent contemporary landscape painters. He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art and studied in London and Florence. He has had retrospective shows at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, The Cahoon Museum of American Art,...
Jan 1, 2019 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
AT THE AGE OF FOUR, Krystii Melaine announced that she was going to be an artist. At seven she won her first art competition, and she was taking commissions for paintings by the age of fourteen. Following studies in painting, drawing, photography, and graphic design,...
