Jun 3, 2022 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
ALTHOUGH HE WAS INTERESTED IN ART as a boy, John Fawcett initially pursued a career in veterinary medicine. However, the desire to paint was always there, so in 1996, after practicing for twenty years, he sold his hospital and began to paint full-time. A self-taught...
Jun 3, 2022 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
A THIRD-GENERATION ARTIST, Josh Elliott was raised to appreciate art. His grandfather studied with Grant Wood and dabbled in all sorts of artistic pursuits. His father, wildlife artist Steve Elliott, who gave up a successful career as an ER doctor to become a...
Jul 22, 2021 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
Brett Allen Johnson Born 1984 in Provo, Utah, lives in Lehi, Utah RAISED AT THE FOOT of Mount Timpanogos in the Wasatch Range—in a small town called American Fork, Utah—Johnson remembers having an interest in art throughout his life, but didn’t immediately see the...
Jul 22, 2021 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
DWAYNE HARTY is a classically trained wildlife artist and natural history diorama artist who began his studies at the Art Students League, NYC. This was followed by independent studies with Bob Kuhn, Robert Lougheed, and Tom Lovell. His interest in the art of the...
Aug 3, 2020 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
BORN AND RAISED IN RURAL COLORADO, Michael Ome Untiedt maintains a studio in Denver. In his painting he attempts to explain his deep connections to the Western landscape using the color, brush strokes, and symbolic subject matter of the paintings. “I see Western...
Aug 3, 2020 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
DEAN L. MITCHELL IS HIGHLY PROFICIENT in watercolors, egg tempera, oils, and pastels. Over the course of his four-decade career, he has gained national recognition for his powerful figurative works, evocative landscapes, and intimate still lifes. At just twenty-three,...
