Utah - Animal Paintings

"Mixed Marriage" by Maureen O'Hara Ure, mixed media on panel, 16 x 24 inches. Relying on sturdy panel to hold up to months, sometimes years, of revisions, O'Hara Ure slowly builds up an image, obsessively laying down marks in thin, sanded layers of paint, ink, and pencil to create a uniquely smooth, almost polished texture distinctive to her style. When a panel returns to her studio from a show, she may begin to tinker with the image, perhaps first sanding out or painting over just a section. "Often as not, I keep going and start all over, using gesso to erase any memory I have of the painting." "For over fifteen years, all of my major projects have begun with my drawing overseas in museums and at historical sites. I returned to my studio and set about using some of the raw ideas in my travel sketchbooks to begin developing new work, taking liberties with the art-historical material I had collected. The exhibit of new paintings on panel at Phillips Gallery...

CAROL O'MALIA received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Her paintings have caught the attention of both private and corpo...

Park Ave With Raven, acrylic on panel, 15 x 24 inches (Framed Size: 24.25 x 15.5 inches), $1500 Scene from Arches National Park, black raven in foreground. “It is my feeling that the desert country of the American West is too large, too wild, too gorgeous to be encompassed by traditional landscape painting. Our inherited aesthetic defines beauty in landscape as green and arable land or grand, breathtaking places. I feel the need to expand that definition. I want to portray the desert as it is right now; to dispense with the limitations of what has come before, to quietly point out the beauty of places that are harsh and forbidding to habitation but express an aesthetic of the wild. I strive to go beyond the sentimentality that often defines our images of the West. The scale of many of my pieces (an extreme horizontal) is a compositional strategy to capture the vastness of these places.” – M. Knudsen Mark Knudsen...

CAROL O'MALIA received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Her paintings have caught the attention of both private and corpo...

CAROL O'MALIA received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Her paintings have caught the attention of both private and corpo...

CAROL O'MALIA received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Her paintings have caught the attention of both private and corpo...

Quirk, oil on paper, 8 x 8 inches (framed size: 13 x 13 inches), $400 Teresa Jordan is a creative tour de force. Raised as part of the fourth generation on a cattle ranch in the Iron Mountain...

Brad Overton creates large scale paintings of toy figurines; he brings these objects to life by placing them in unique and fantastical settings. "I have always loved the patina of ol...

Brad Overton creates large scale paintings of toy figurines; he brings these objects to life by placing them in unique and fantastical settings. "I have always loved the patina of ol...

Oil on panel. In creating his realist paintings, Jeff Cohen paints on individual wooden tiles which are then brought together to form the finished piece. Each of the painted tiles is...

Chris Gwaltney paints in a lush style, combining areas of abstraction with loose figurative elements. He experiments with sensuous surface finishes, compiling multiple layers of pai...