Jeanne Hyland earned her BFA degree from University of New Hampshire in figurative sculpture and drawing followed by studies at École des Beaux Arts, France. After years in commercial design, she returned to her Fine Art sculpture roots in Colorado, participating in Loveland Sculpture Invitationals and Sedona Sculpture Walks. Hyland adopted watercolor as her medium after moving to California where she taught at Brand Library Studios, the LA Academy of Figurative Art, and the Learning & Product Expo at Pasadena.  Hyland now teaches locally in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, Artisan’s Art Spot and other locales nationally and internationally.

Deborah Day is an accomplished horsewoman, nature enthusiast, passionate painter and registered nurse. She has combined these interests to create a multifaceted career. Artistically, much of her inspiration comes from outside her back door where the Rockin’ D Ranch is home to about 20 horses and various other animals. She has a deep, lifelong love for horses and they are frequently depicted in her work. Other animals, mostly of the domestic sort, find place in sharing her life in and out of the studio as well.

Karen Storm is a contemporary oil painter known for landscape and nature paintings created en plein air and in her studio.  Her style is a combination of representational and impressionist influences with which she focuses on her emotional connection to nature through her expression of light, color and atmosphere.    

Becky Hicks’ love affair with painting cattle started with the summers and holidays spent on her great grandmother’s ranch.  She spent hours with scissors and stacks of The Cattleman magazines cutting pictures of cows, barns and fences.  Little did she know then that her painting, Gold in the Morning Son, would be featured on the cover someday.  In addition to cattle, Hicks also paints and draws the western and ranch lifestyles, Native Americans, animals and wildlife in oils, watercolors and charcoal. 

Margi Tucker is a contemporary pastel artist known for her nature-inspired artworks.  Her work often blends detailed realism with symbolic or spiritual narrative in her quest to capture the essence or spirit of her subject and its surroundings.  Her drive is to preserve the species or scene in her art, as such may not exist in years to come. 

Toni James is an award-winning Arizona artist who was born and raised in the valley of the sun. She is the middle child of seven siblings.  James used her artistic talent as her escape from all of the chaos that large families have, all the while developing her drawing skills on her own.  She began to pursue her art seriously in 1995, showing her graphite and colored pencil work in local shows.  She later expanded her mediums and works to include acrylic and oil paintings as well.

Cher Anderson is a wildlife artist and photographer known for her highly detailed, realistic paintings of animals, birds and nature.  She works in acrylics, watercolor, and colored pencils.  Her process often starts with photographing animals in the wild, then translating those moments into her detailed paintings.

Betsy Johnson Welty is a contemporary American oil painter best known for her vibrant, expressive landscapes, cityscapes, and floral compositions featuring bold colors and loose brushwork that blend realism, impressionist elements and graphic design sensibilities.  She regards the act of creating art as a process of continued discovery that brings with it challenges, surprises, obstacles, insight and epiphanies. Each new painting presents a new set of adventures and a quest for interpreting the world she sees in a unique way.

Pam Holnback creates contemporary impressionist oil paintings.  She finds inspiration in nature, her travels, and in her home and garden.  Each painting is done with loose, spontaneous brushwork that expresses the light and color that she sees.  The principles of art and elements of design are basic in the initial drawing and development of each painting.  She produces artworks both en plein air and in her studio.

Shirley Hove is a contemporary visual artist working in oils, watercolor and pastel.  She works primarily from life, whether the subject is landscape, portrait, or still life, to express the subtleties of color and shape created by light.  She strives for a direct response to her subject with the object of capturing selective beauty and emotion through expressive, soft simplification that builds conceptual depth to her subjects.

Carol Biering Hendrix creates oil paintings of animals, especially horses and the horse racing industry.  Much of her output is commissioned portraits of well-known race horses. 

Sasha Phillips integrates three fields of professional endeavor.  She is a high–level corporate lawyer, a professional artist, and developer of mental health through art wellness programs.  Phillips is an oil painter.  Her art focuses on visual storytelling, often tied to mental or emotional processing of trauma and social issues.

Cathy Toot is an oil painter whose work captures the Western way of life and the animals of the American West with authenticity.  She works in the realist tradition, depicting people engaged in ranch life, cowboy culture, wildlife and ranch animals.  She began her artistic journey painting on gourds.  She developed her work into a full-time professional fine art painting career. 

Donna Cox is an award-winning artist who has been drawing animals for as long as she can remember.  Her meticulous attention to detail, as well as an ability to infuse that essential spark of life into her subjects, sets her work apart.  Essentially a self-taught artist, working primarily in oil and pencil, her work reflects her love and respect for wildlife and the environment. She is an avid conservationist.  Her background as a veterinary technician, as well as an enthusiasm for hunting and the outdoors, have greatly contributed to her ability to accurately portray animals in their natural habitat.

Sandhyaa Shetty is a fine artist specializing in landscape paintings executed in oils and acrylics.  She works in the traditions of the impressionist and plein air genres.  Her earliest works reflected the beauty of rural India as she experienced it at her grandparents’ farm.  She sought to paint the interaction of divine nature and emotional connection to the land with the intent to freeze it upon her canvas to preserve it forever.  When her marriage brought her to the United States, the beautiful landscapes and people in her new home continue to inspire her work.

Bonnie Shields is a well-known American Western artist known as, “The Tennessee Mule Artist.” She is especially famous for her detailed, humorous, and affectionate artwork focused on mules and donkeys.  Her work stands out because it captures the personality and intelligence of mules, sometimes with narrative flair, sometimes with a cartoon-like twist.

Skeeter Leard is a regional New Mexico wildlife artist and illustrator, working primarily in acrylics and pastels.  She is highly respected locally for both her art and her long-standing involvement in conservation and community arts.  The Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge is a major influence in her work and the subjects she paints — birds and native desert animals. 

Award winning, fine wildlife artist, Nancy Tome, depicts a variety of birds and other wildlife in everyday life. Combining distinct realism and composition in her paintings, Tome combines bold colors with intense detail to depict animals in their natural environment. Her acrylic paintings are designed to capture “a moment in time” of that animal’s daily life. She uses research obtained from travel, zoos and private collections to compile all of her knowledge and understanding of an animal and its environment into a realistic and emotional scene.

Judy Buckner paints her deep connection to the Southwest, fueled by family time spent in New Mexico, Arizona, California and Colorado, where she draws inspiration for her oil paintings from the people and landscapes. She is also a mural painter, whose work is displayed at Dallas Fort Worth and Love Field airports in Texas, in addition to several restaurants in the area.

Gaylene Fortner creates artworks inspired by her cherished country life in her home state of Montana.  Wildlife, ranch life, antiques, and flowers grace her paintings created with oils or watercolors.  She explores new methods in her paintings in order to reveal the uniqueness of each subject, utilizing a variety of sizes from small to large formats. She especially enjoys painting miniatures, some of which are so small that a magnifying glass is needed to appreciate the details.