Studio Stories from our WAOW Artists

Mary Arnold • Studio Stories
Women Artists of the West, Colors, Paintings, Oil, Acrylic, Horses, Conservation, Landscapes, Birds, Fowl, Animals WAOW . Women Artists of the West, Colors, Paintings, Oil, Acrylic, Horses, Conservation, Landscapes, Birds, Fowl, Animals WAOW .

Mary Arnold • Studio Stories

The local Land Trust of the Treasure Valley hosted this wonderful write-up about their 30th Anniversary Celebration and highlighted that I'll be there painting live!! I am so honored to support this amazing organization. Not to mention, a bit intimidated to paint live!!:

"Some places become part of our story. Some artists help us remember them. 🎨🌿

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Iwona Jankowski • Texas • Studio Stories
Women Artists of the West, Colors, Paintings, Oil, Acrylic, Horses, Mottled Horses WAOW . Women Artists of the West, Colors, Paintings, Oil, Acrylic, Horses, Mottled Horses WAOW .

Iwona Jankowski • Texas • Studio Stories

My art studio is more than a place where I paint—it is a place where I explore emotions, imagination, and the beauty of the world around me.
When I create my equine art, I am not simply painting horses. I am capturing their spirit, emotion, movement, and quiet strength. I create allowing colors, textures, and abstract forms to guide me as the painting develops.

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Laurie Pace • Studio Stories
Women Artists of the West, Painter, Painting, Landscapes, Portraits, Life, Still Life, Horses WAOW . Women Artists of the West, Painter, Painting, Landscapes, Portraits, Life, Still Life, Horses WAOW .

Laurie Pace • Studio Stories

Treasures of the Heart
This morning I wasn't searching for a painting. I found myself searching for the artist I was at that time.

Back in the early days of blogging, around 2006, I was painting almost every day as part of the Daily Painters movement. While many artists were creating small daily works, I found myself filling larger canvases—18 × 27, 24 × 30, even 30 × 40—and sharing the journey through my blog.

Those years became more than paintings. They became books. Every year I gathered my artwork and the stories behind the different collections documenting my work and my life as a mom, a wife and an artist.

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Painter Nori Thorne
Women Artists of the West, landscape, Mountains, Native American, Horses, Buffalo, Clouds WAOW . Women Artists of the West, landscape, Mountains, Native American, Horses, Buffalo, Clouds WAOW .

Painter Nori Thorne

I love to paint in the American Southwest where time and erosion reveal the bones of the earth and ancient artists left their marks in the remotest canyons.  In my canyonscapes I try to capture the strong sense of place, of secrets suddenly revealed—a vista glimpsed through a redrock window, a water pocket shining on slickrock, the cold walls of a slot canyon reflected in a black pool. 

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Rotating Canvas . Painter Sara Bloodwolf
Women Artists of the West, landscape, Waterscape, Lake, Night Sky, Daylight, Mountains, Rivers, Native American, Stars, Sun, Tattoo Artist, Horses, Buffalo, Ravens, Birds, Clouds WAOW . Women Artists of the West, landscape, Waterscape, Lake, Night Sky, Daylight, Mountains, Rivers, Native American, Stars, Sun, Tattoo Artist, Horses, Buffalo, Ravens, Birds, Clouds WAOW .

Rotating Canvas . Painter Sara Bloodwolf

I work on several paintings at once using one large palette.I rotate the canvases on the easel as they dry and as my inspiration and patience changes on each day.Even though i paint every single day I take a long time on each, my average painting is 3x3 feet and takes a month of daily painting and i mean every day. 

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My Happy Place . Painter Kathy Soliday
Bison, Buffalo, Women Artists of the West, Horses, Birds, Animals, Cows WAOW . Bison, Buffalo, Women Artists of the West, Horses, Birds, Animals, Cows WAOW .

My Happy Place . Painter Kathy Soliday

This painting was from a photo opportunity I had to visit a longhorn ranch at feed time.  These amazing creatures with their longhorns know exactly how to move without hitting those enormous horns.  For being huge animals they move like dancers but their eyes were mainly on the food pellets.

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