Author: Laura Boberg

Do you remember the first time a painting truly moved you, stirring an emotion deep inside your soul? For many, the culprit artist is Spanish-born artist Quim Bové whose inner soul is expressed in colors layered with a rich, reflective resin surface that provides such an experience.

For some people, the world is their canvas. For Max Hammond, at age 4, the world was any wall he could draw on. “I remember my mother just gave up and covered the walls with 3-foot-high white paper, and I’d draw cowboys and Indians, tanks, airplanes—little boy stuff,” he recalls.

Despite a life tailor-made for the pursuit of Western art, Lane Timothy can’t be relegated to one genre. The Missoula native, whose Davdreamer, shown on this edition’s cover, exemplifies the romance of the wide-open spaces surrounding his Montana hometown, excels in a variety of styles.

John Burton’s great-grandfather was a poet who once wrote, “Poetry is vocal painting, as painting is silent poetry.” “I definitely come from a creative family,” Burton says, “so it probably would have been uncommon if I hadn’t ended up an artist.” Burton, 37, is an award-winning oil painter whose work includes portraits, plein-air landscapes, still… Continue reading Passionate Obsession

The tranquil landscapes of Romona Youngquist give us an intriguing look into the heart of nature.

On April 3, Scottsdale’s Bonner David galleries held a lavish party for Spanish artist Quim Bové.

Claudia Hartley fills her landscapes and interiors with vivid colors. The colors reflect the joy and excitement she feels when she looks at Arizona’s desert, California’s coastline, Pennsylvania’s farm country, or sun-drenched Provence.

Romona Youngquist finds beauty in the dark and shadowy landscapes of the Northwest.

“I knew I was going to be an artist when I was 4,” says Romona Youngquist only half-jokingly; her drawing of a rooster drew the adulation of a teacher, and from then on she just knew what she wanted to be.