WAOW Artistry of the West
The WAOW Artistry is slowly being built to provide a page on our site to promote each artist* You can search by name, location or by subject matter to find an artist.
*Artist Source Acknowledgment: Content on these pages is shared with permission and is sourced from the featured member artist’s website and professional biography. All rights remain with the artist.
Becky Hicks • Texas • waow
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.
Lana Dunlap • Oklahoma • waow
Lana Dunlap is a self-taught fine artist known for creating artworks inspired by the working West — including portraits and images of ranch life, livestock, and western themes. Her pieces often capture both the quiet strength and raw emotion in her subjects. She works in gouache, colored pencils, and charcoal on various substrates.
Ann Sherman • Washington • waow
Ann Sherman is a contemporary painter and sculptor of horses and the human figure. Her work blends representational accuracy with artistic expression and freshness — capturing the essence of her subjects. She works in bronze, charcoal and oil.
Sherry Cobb-Kelleher • Colorado • waow
Each day is a gift that Cobb-Kelleher treasures. She strives to capture those special but otherwise missed moments of ranch life — moments that poignantly highlight the struggle for that tenuous and beautiful balance between the world as it is and the world as we wish it to be.
Debra Keirce • Virginia • waow
Debra Keirce paints and draws the first few chapters, so art lovers can finish the story. Drawings and paintings that make your heart smile.