Western Art Collector
High Noon - October 2022
Collector's Focus : Outlaws & Law Men
Many of us grew up in the early days of television with shows on cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and robbers, cattlemen and ranchers—the whole romantic panoply of the West. We may have known the fictional characters but we didn’t know much about the actual characters who peopled the West
Artist: Aaron Hazel
Western Art Collector
Experiments in Color - September 2022
Painter Carrie Wild admits she’s having too much fun when it comes to her art. “My goal is to giggle in my studio while I paint, and I find that has been happening a lot lately,” she says...
Artist: Carrie Wild
Sold! - September 2022
A pair of collectors dropped into Gallery Wild in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and found something they liked so much they quickly returned home to measure the space on their wall. Not long after, they came back to the gallery to make the purchase. The work was Amber Blazina’s 48-by-96-inch Exhilaration...
Artist: Amber Blazina
Western Art Collector
Into the Southwest - August 2022
Wyoming-based Gallery Wild expands to famous Canyon Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico...
Artist: Carrie Wild
Artist Focus: Patricia A. Griffin - August 2022
Patricia Griffin’s vibrant compositions are a contemporary manifestation of humanity’s earliest muse. Her oil paintings of animals on linen burn slowly as they stir the mind into daydreams of travel and encounters with exotic and indigenous beings. She goes to great lengths to study, photograph and sketch her kinetic subjects. Griffin utilizes subject matter as a testing ground for concepts of color, value and structure...
Artist: Patricia A. Griffin
Western Art Collector
Cutting Edge - July 2022
Two rising artists within the world of Western art are combining forces for a new show at Gallery Wild in Jackson Hole, Wyoming...
Artist: Aaron Hazel & Ron Russon
Art of the Wild - July 2022
The National Park Service is celebrated in a new show at Gallery Wild...
State of the Art: Wyoming - July 2022
For centuries, the modern masters like Amber Bierstadt, John Clymer and Thomas Moran found inspiration in the spellbinding wilderness of places like Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park...
Artist: Amber Blazina, Carrie Wild & Michelle Sarantopulos
Western Art Collector
Fleeting Moments - June 2022
That brief, electrically charged moment when a wild animal reveals itself; when time stops, and that beast seems to look not only at you but through you—this is what wildlife artists Amber Blazina and Matt Flint explore in an enchanting new exhibition at Gallery Wild...
Artist: Amber Blazina & Matt Flint
jackson hole magazine
Wild Things - Summer 2022
If a name is a destiny, artist Carrie Wild was meant to connect with nature. She grew up on a horse farm in southern Michigan and spent time at the Michigan State University vet clinic where her parents worked. "Animals have always been a part of my life" she says. A painter, she traveled to Jackson to explore the art scene...
Artist: Carrie Wild
big sky journal
In The Grip of The Wild - Arts 2022
It’s widely acknowledged that nature inspires art, but the adage is rarely transposed. Yet, art through the ages has certainly left its imprint on nature: in gardens and dwellings, in water features and public sculptures, in designs and in deeds...
Artist: Carrie Wild
western art collector
Ethereal State of the Art : New Mexico - May 2022
As one of Jackson Hole’s favorite galleries, Gallery Wild is excited to be opening a second location at the entrance to Canyon Road in Santa Fe. Gallery Wild showcases contemporary fine art inspired by wildlife, open spaces and conservation. The collection features established and emerging artists who offer a variety of mediums that include painting, sculpture, mixed media and photography.
Owned and operated by wildlife painter Carrie Wild, and wildlife photographer Jason Williams, Gallery Wild’s works and philosophy are inspired and directly influenced by thousands of hours in the field observing, studying and falling in love with all things wild...
Artist: Michelle Sarantopulos & Jenna Von Benedikt
western art collector
Ethereal Light - February 2022
Bridgette Meinhold brings her newest pieces to Gallery Wild in Wyoming.
Bridgette Meinhold says, “I really think there’s such amazing beauty in inclement weather. I love being out in it. The weather and light takes a scene you see every day in your life and transforms it.” ...
Artist: Bridgette Meinhold
western art collector
The Contemporary West - January 2022
In his book The Life of Maynard Dixon, Donald J. Hagerty wrote, “By the middle 1920s, Dixon had developed a flatter surface treatment and bolder composition in his painting, which included ‘space division,’ an increased concern for compositional and schematic arrangements, with striking light and dark earth-tone patterns. A distinctive vocabulary, an underlying geometric feeling, even cubist-realism suggesting formal abstraction emerged in his painting...
Artist: Amber Blazina, Carrie Wild & Patricia A. Griffin
western art collector
Natural Pigments - September 2021
New wildlife work by Carrie Wild will be available at a new solo show in Wyoming.
Known for her modern interpretations of classic wildlife subject matter, Carrie Wild will be showing her newest work at a solo show opening September 10 at Gallery Wild in Jackson Hole, Wyoming...
Artist: Carrie Wild
western art collector
State of the Art Wyoming - July 2021
You can’t see the footprints, but they might as well be cast in concrete in the Wyoming soil. They are the faded memories of Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, William Gollings, John Clymer, Conrad Schwiering and so many others. They painted the grandeur of the Cowboy State and today you can practically stand in their footsteps, breathe the same air, feel the same coolness on your skin and bear witness to the same land spread out in front of you. Be it the snow-dusted peaks of the Grand Tetons, the rocky outcroppings that look out over the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, the painted cliffs of Castle Rock on the Green River or the untamed wilderness of Antelope Butte—Wyoming is the land of artists, and the home of the giants of Western art...
Artist: Carrie Wild, Silas Thompson & Matt Flint
jh style magazine
Painting the Wild - Summer/Fall '21 - Pg 48-50
Technically, Carrie Wild paints Western wildlife. But the verve and whimsy that she infuses into each of her paintings is compelling and unexpected - you won't mistake one of her thoughtful animal profiles for a photograph. She hopes, though, that what your eye doesn't immediately identify as familiar, your heart and memory will.
Artist: Carrie Wild
Western Art & Architecture
Artist Spotlight: Carrie Penley - June/July 2021
Take one look at 'Ancient Origins', a recent work by Carrie Penley, and it's clear that the artist resonates with the American West...
Artist: Carrie Penley
Fine art connoisseur
Artist Spotlight: Patricia A. Griffin - Spring 2021
Take a closer look at Patricia A. Griffin in her Q & A session with Fine Art Connoisseur. Patricia recounts her past and what has lead to her immense success as a wildlife artist. Patricia also discusses what inspires her and even divulges what she has in her personal art collection!
Artist: Patricia A. Griffin
Fine art connoisseur
Featured Artwork: Thor - Winter 2021
Thor’s grounding personality emanates from thin washes and thousands of strokes of buttery paint. The saturated layers of pigment bring the animal’s essence into the room with the signature style of artist Patricia A. Griffin. Thor engages the viewer in an exchange of strength and tranquil observation.
Artist: Patricia A. Griffin
western art collector
Backgrounds - September 2020
A show calling attention to the backgrounds and environments of animal and wildlife masterpieces...
Artist: Carrie Wild, Julie T. Chapman, Larry Moore & Patricia A. Griffin
Artist Focus | Rip & Alison Caswell - September 2020
As you look through the immense and diverse artwork collections and bronze sculptures of Rip and Alison Caswell, you will get a sense of the heart and soul of these two artists. Joined together as an artistic team, they each bring a unique perspective; the masculine and feminine are both celebrated in their works, making the art powerful and beautiful all at once...
Artist: Rip & Alison Caswell
western art collector
Connected to Nature - August 2020
Jenna von Benedikt’s wildlife paintings show the connection people have to the natural world.
Utah-based artist Jenna von Benedikt has long felt a connection to the natural world. In particular, the fauna of the places she has lived—stretching from her home country of England to the Rocky Mountains in America—has provided a wealth of resources and inspiration. And it’s not just the larger, familiar beasts, such as bison, that wind up on her canvases. Instead, von Benedikt has a particular fascination for hummingbirds, butterflies, bees and other insects that often go unnoticed but have a large role to play in nature.
Artist: Jenna Von Benedikt
western art collector
State of the Art Wyoming - July 2020
Wyoming is where it’s at. While the state is one of the least populous in the country, it’s abundant with some of the nation’s most scenic natural areas from iconic Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park, to the Great Plains, the Rockies and the Big Horn Mountains. Its history is rich with the numerous Native American tribes that originally inhabited the land—Arapaho, Shoshone, Lakota and Crow are just a few—as well as the exploits of trappers and explorers. For the Western artist and collector, Wyoming is paradise...
Artist: Carrie Wild, Jason Williams, Julie T. Chapman, Silas Thompson, Amber Blazina, Matt Flint, Jeremy Bradshaw & Jenna Von Benedikt
Big Sky Journal
Artist of the West: Finding The Magic - Summer 2020
When artist Meagan Blessing was 9 years old, she filled an expedition-style backpack and walked out the front door of her family’s home in Seattle, Washington. It was summertime, school was out for the year, and she was ready for a great adventure.
Artist: Meagan Blessing
Jackson Hole Magazine
Mixing Business with Art - February 2020
It was the opportunity to interact with collectors and the public that inspired Wild, who paints contemporary pieces of wildlife subjects, to open her gallery. In 2012 she began participating in events and shows where, she says, “I was actually able to witness expressions on viewers’ faces. Whether it was a smile with a gasp of excitement or a scoff of disgust from someone who preferred a more traditional representation...
Artist: Carrie Wild
Fine Art Connoisseur
Among the Trees: Bridgette Meinhold - December 2019
Meinhold is an active proponent of open space preservation and protection of wild spaces as well as being an avid skier, mountain biker, climber, and hiker. Her time spent outdoors and her love of nature directly translate into her atmospheric landscape paintings...
Artist: Bridgette Meinhold
Jackson Hole News & Guide
Gallery Wild Hosts New, Old Faces in Bright New Space - September 2019
Peterson hasn’t been toiling for years in a dingy studio, splashing oil paints over canvases and waiting tables while he waits for his big break. He isn’t some upstart kid. Peterson is an octogenarian who stumbled into his career as an artist almost by accident. He came to the 2011 Fall Arts Festival — as a spectator, an art enthusiast — and visited Wild’s original gallery.
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In Art, Life, and Work, Matt Flint Enjoys the Process - September 2019
Matt Flint paints in the same way he explores the rugged landscape where he seeks his inspiration. Guided by curiosity, he embraces the process and the unknown, following his intuition on the canvas, much in the same way an adventure might unfold in the wilderness...
Artist: Matt Flint
Jackson Hole News & Guide
Jenna von Benedikt's Birds are Messengers - August 2019
When Jenna von Benedikt was looking for names for her child, she stumbled upon a meaning for her own first name: “little bird.” The name stuck and, along with other meanings she discovered, like “paradise,” became a guiding light of sorts for her as she painted. “I like the little bird definition,” von Benedikt said. “It’s a neat way to think that it could bridge the two places, you know...
Artist: Jenna von Benedikt
Jackson Hole News & Guide
Bridgette Meinhold Paints Landscapes of Layered Wax - July 2019
Painter Bridgette Meinhold gains life lessons from her art. As an encaustic painter of 10 years she builds up beeswax and resin layers to create 3D landscapes, usually hazy mountains, clouds and trees, in a 2D context. "As each layer is done it’s encased in wax,” Meinhold said. “I actually can’t go back and fix it. Once it’s done, it’s done...
Artist: Bridgette Meinhold
BIG SKY JOURNAL
Rod, Reel, and Paintbrush - Fly Fishing 2019
ARTIST GEORGE HILL PURSUES HIS FASCINATION WITH AN UNDERWATER ECOSYSTEM
Shortly after graduating from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he studied art and art history, George Hill sold all of his possessions and moved to Patagonia. “I wanted to travel the world, and I was obsessed with catching big trout,” he says...
Artist: George Hill
Camille Styles
The Weekend Guide to Jackson Hole, Wyoming - July 2019
Gallery Hop — If you need a break from outdoor activity, spend an evening winding your way through Jackson’s many art galleries. Start at the Museum of Wildlife Art for a comprehensive look at the region’s history. Then head to Gallery Wild for a modern take on wildlife art...
Big Sky Journal
Artist of the West: Amber Blazina - Summer 2019
Amber Blazina’s brush flies from palette to painting. Her mind is focused, but her body shakes with adrenaline. She’s participating in a quick-draw at the Out West Art Show in Great Falls, Montana, during Western Art Week, and the gun of time is drawn. She has only 60 minutes to create a painting. An anxious crowd watches her as though she’s a magician while she manifests an animal on linen...
Artist: Amber Blazina
Southwest Art
CarrieWild|Wild at Heart - May 2019
Deer, foxes, coyotes, horses—Carrie Wild grew up observing all of these creatures scampering, grazing, or galloping across her family’s 26-acre horse farm in southern Michigan. She was a natural at working with animals, too; by age 12, she could handle and ride a stallion. As the daughter of veterinary-science researchers, Wild seemed destined for an animal-related profession herself...
Artist: Carrie Wild
Southwest Art
Meet 6 Artists Who Focus on Animals and Wildlife - June 2019
The constant rhythm of nature, with each character fulfilling its role, is the story I want to tell through my art. I feel personally connected to the subjects I sculpt, and my hope is to fulfill someone else’s desire to feel closer to something wild. I am largely self-taught. My art is a product of experimentation and a commitment to honing my craft...
Artist: Jeremy Bradshaw
Western Art & Architecture
Contemporary in Nature - April/May 2019
Wildlife artist Carrie Wild has spent thousands of hours outdoors, tracking, viewing, and photographing wildlife. She is equally at home among the impressive soaring mountain peaks and expansive valleys of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, as she is on the African plains or in the frigid polar bear country of Churchill, Manitoba. It is all about the animals, the birds, and sometimes, the creatures beneath the sea...
Artist: Carrie Wild
Southwest Art
Emerging Artists | Carrie Wild - March/April 2019
Deer, foxes, coyotes, horses—Carrie Wild grew up observing all of these creatures scampering, grazing, or galloping across her family’s 26-acre horse farm in southern Michigan. She was a natural at working with animals, too; by age 12, she could handle and ride a stallion. As the daughter of veterinary-science researchers, Wild seemed destined for an animal-related profession herself...
Artist: Carrie Wild
JH STYLE MAgazine
Wild for Nature | Williams Guides Animal Adventures - Winter/Spring 2019-2020
Scanning the snowy horizon, Jason Williams spotted just what he was looking for. Almost imperceptible at first, the shape of a lone wolf slowly moved across the wintry terrain and into view. Then another appeared. Soon, a whole wolf pack was visible and his clients' faces shone with excitement as they snapped photos to capture the moment...
Artist: Jason Williams
Jackson Hole News & Guide
Visiting Painter Takes Over Gallery Wild - March 2019
Walk through the doors of Gallery Wild and you can smell a faint scent of paint. That’s because, in addition to showing conservation-inspired works, the gallery doubles as an art studio. Owner and painter Carrie Wild is usually set up in the back of the shop, which just reopened in a larger space in the same building last month. But starting last Monday, Wild’s friend and fellow painter, Patricia Griffin, has taken over her spot...
Artist: Patricia Griffin
Jackson hole news & Guide
Gallery Wild Takes a Spot on Broadway - February 2019
Gallery Wild is part gallery, part open artist’s studio. On any given day visitors can watch Wild or a visiting artist at work while perusing hung works. All of Gallery Wild’s artwork is contemporary and conservation- or wildlife-focused. The new Broadway-facing space will allow Gallery Wild to continue business as usual, just bigger. Williams said he and Wild will add a handful of artists to their roster...
Fine Art Connoisseur
A Relentless Pursuit - December 2018
There is a tingling sensation throughout my body when I witness an animal in its native habitat. I travel from the Arctic to the Equator in relentless pursuit of this experience. It occurs in the last strongholds of our diminishing wildlife. I am a wildlife painter, photographer, researcher, naturalist, and conservationist. I use my work as a billboard for awareness...
Artist: Patricia Griffin
Fine Art Connoisseur
Featured Artwork: Patricia Griffin - December 2018
Patricia Griffin is a wildlife painter, photographer, researcher, naturalist, and conservationist. She uses her work as a billboard for awareness. "I see my paintings as a vehicle for the awakening of the human soul to the necessity of protecting and preserving that which does not speak a human language,” explains Patricia...
Artist: Patricia Griffin
Mountain Living Magazine
The Ultimate Resort Guide - November 2018
This new gallery has the perfect name, as it’s located in an area known for its abundant wildlife. The name actually comes from Carrie Wild, who owns the gallery with her husband, wildlife photographer Jason Williams. The gallery showcases art inspired by wildlife and wild open spaces...
Jackson Hole Traveler
New Gallery Goes Into the Wild - September 2018
Jackson Hole’s newest art gallery is a visual love song to all things wild, from the furry to the feathered to the fabulous landscapes of seemingly endless, untamed spaces. Its name — appropriately — is Gallery Wild. This delightful cache of creativity on South Glenwood features the jaw dropping and inspiring wildlife paintings and photographs...
Cowboys & indians
Art Gallery: Carrie Wild - July 2018
Her sketchbook overflowed with drawings of horses and wildlife on her family’s Michigan farm. She challenged herself to correctly draw every muscle, body conformation, and facial expression of even the songbirds at the window bird feeder. Her first art award: winning her 8-year-old age division of the statewide 4-H art contest with a pastel drawing of an Arabian horse...
Artist: Carrie Wild
Western Art & Architecture
Getting Down to Business - April/May 2018
Two years ago, Montana native Amber Blazina was a freelance graphic designer working from home — successful but unsatisfied. A painting habit abandoned after high school was tugging at her heart. She decided to begin again, and experimented with new kinds of brushstrokes...
Artist: Amber Blazina
Paard Verzameld
Matt Flint - May 2018
Artifacts of the creative process can be seen in the rich varied textures, raw worked surfaces, fragile subtle marks and veiled light qualities created by working and reworking the piece. As one image comes into focus another is fading away, retaining a piece of the previous while hinting at what might come next...
Artist: Matt Flint
Big Life Magazine
Painting with Passion: Bridgette Meinhold - Winter 2017
The Art of Preservation - Living big is often about giving big. Sometimes, you have to take things into your own hands, literally. Utah artist Bridgette Meinhold is doing just that—using her hands, vision, and heart to triumph a cause close to her community...
Artist: Bridgette Meinhold
1859 - Oregon's Magazine
Artist in Residence / Alison Brown - September 2017
As a college student at the University of Oregon, Alison Brown searched for a career that would be fulfilling. She knew she loved art, but didn’t think she could make a living sculpting. Then she discovered her calling was all over campus—in the form of Puddles the Duck, the university’s mascot. Today, the 28-year-old Troutdale resident has a successful business sculpting mascots and other figures...
Artist: Alison Caswell
Big Sky Journal
Artist of the West: Matt Flint - Fall 2017
Matt Flint interprets tangible places on our behalf; using layers, glyphs, scratched surfaces, and repeated patterns, he demonstrates new ways of understanding the natural world. Powerfully emotional, he tethers the transient human experience to the land; by following the natural process of growth, decay, and rebirth, he relates the world as it is. Like a glimpse not only at the landscape but down through it as well...
Artist: Matt Flint
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Interview with Artist Jenna von Benedikt - August 2017
I remember painting a picture of the Royal family on some poster paper when I was around six years old. My school class was performing an assembly on the Queen, and we each held up our posters and said our little spiel. My teacher, Miss Gullett, was extremely patriotic and she set up an art club and played old war tunes on her piano while we painted and did our work. It’s probably the first significant memory...
Artist: Jenna von Benedikt
Big Sky Journal
The Wild World of Color - Arts 2017
Jackson Hole, Wyoming-based painter Carrie Wild has chosen to portray the wildlife that surrounds her in her mountain town: bison, elk, horses, moose. But the offbeat colors she uses are also her trademark, and of gravitational appeal for her collectors. Wild started her art career with animal portraiture and realistic scenes — which remains evident in her animal’s more realistic features...
Artist: Carrie Wild
15 Bytes | Artists of Utah
Daily Bytes | Who Do You Love: Jenna von Benedikt - February 2016
“Visually, our work is very different, but I resonate with the themes he brings up: Stewardship of the earth, our connections to each other. They raise important, personal, often spiritual questions. "My paintings are more simplified and abstract. For me, it’s appealing to collide subtle lines or industrialized opposition to something so delicate and natural as a bird. It’s my way to invent a ‘new world’...
Artist: Jenna von Benedikt
Mountain Living Magazine
Winter's Hush - October 2014
"Nature by far is my greatest influence," Meinhold says. "I spend as much time as I can outdoors—hiking, skiing, biking, climbing or just sitting listening to the wind through the trees, watching the clouds pass by and observing how the light changes."
Artist: Bridgette Meinhold
Artist Portfolio Magazine
Jenna von Benedikt / International Art Exhibition - 2014
Nature—up close—often manifests herself in the form of abstracted landscapes, textures, and patterns, and are integral influences in my art, including my faith and spiritual education; many of my personal beliefs have distilled from time spent outdoors...
Artist: Jenna von Benedikt
Mormon Artist
Jenna von Benedikt - October 2013
I enjoy bold colors and lines, and abstract work offers more leeway for exercising those graphic elements. I’ve also learned a great deal about paint application and color combinations through my abstract pieces. There is something quite profound about just a color itself...
Artist: Jenna von Benedikt
Southwest Art
Emerging Artist | Matt Flint - July 2010
His imagery usually features abstracted versions of animals, plants, and figures that dwell within simple geometric planes. Flint’s mission is to capture the rhythms of the natural world by layering paint and creating rich, weathered textures that are scratched and scored like the landscape itself, which is constantly changing and re-forming. The results are haunting, multi-layered pieces...
Artist: Matt Flint
Simple Floors, Portland
Bringing Bronze Sculptures to Life in Portland - Blog
Rip and Alison Caswell are the husband-and-wife team behind Caswell Sculpture based in Troutdale, just East of Portland. They dynamic duo unite their respective talents in the creation of their amazing statue artwork which they sell directly and through studios across the country. Not only do they create the amazing art, but they also own their own casting foundry Firebird Bronze Foundry...
Artist: Rip and Alison Caswell
Epic Diving - Cat Island, Bahamas
Sculptor Victor Douieb visits Cat Island, Bahama - 2012
Victor Douieb visits Cat Island in the Bahamas, where he dives with Epic Diving in search of the Oceanic Whitetip shark. Victor uses his sculptures to bring awareness to the cruel practice of sharkfinning...
Artist: Victor Douieb