Artist Directory

Oil Painting

Jill Auerbach lives in Jackson, WY, and studied painting in Oaxaca, Mexico, New York City, and at the Art Student's League in Brattleboro, VT. She paints on etching papers and stretched canvas using oil paints and cold wax.

Paper Collage

Kris Batchelder is a self-created artist specializing in paper collage works. Before opening into her own artistic expression, she was able to absorb many of the world's finest artists' works firsthand through her extensive travels and adventuring. She also represented artists for a period of time in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
After becoming certified as an Integrative Life Coach, Kris decided it was time to “walk her talk” and reclaim the personal creative talent she had always projected onto others. What has resulted are the various works you see displayed, into which Kris has woven her passion for transformation and the outdoors in hopes to inspire people to step into their power and get after their dreams.

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Watercolor

Carol has been in art all her life - now as a senior citizen she has turned to watercolor which has allowed her to bring out movement and life. Her animals seem to follow you and show the emotion of the moment. Every original shows her personal use of multicolors and reflections. She has taken workshops under such artists as Ted Nuttal, Birgit O'Conner,Kay Stratman, David Drummond, and Lian Quan Zhen. In past artistic endeavors she has done oil, acrylic, tole, Zostovo, and stained glass.

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Oil Painting

Wendell Locke Field was born in 1965 in Kalamazoo, Michigan and raised on a dairy farm. It was there on the farm, in the woods and lakes that he began to observe, sketch and develop a deep curiosity and love of the natural world.

Supposing that it shouldn’t be possible to do your life for a living, Wendell graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1988 with a degree in agriculture economics. It didn’t take him long to realize that ignoring his true calling would be his soul’s death.

For the better part of three decades, Field has created art that reflects his deliberately simple life in Jackson Hole while also traveling extensively in Asia, Africa, North and South America. A profound recognition of spirit is always present in Wendell’s work. His mountains reflect authority, his villages appear as places of soulful refuge and throughout all there is a collective grace.

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Oil Painting

Katy Ann Fox wanders through the West witnessing windblown mountains and sunlight to gather emotion and imagery for her landscape paintings. Her oil paintings host a feeling of peace and respect for her subject as she focuses on texture and color harmony. She grew up in northern Idaho, moved to San Francisco, California for her Masters in Fine Art degree at the Academy of Art University and now makes her art in the town of Jackson, Wyoming. In addition to painting she does woodblock printing and hand-thrown pottery and some sewing. Her work can be seen on the Jackson Hole Still Works Great Grey Gin label sold around the nation.

Oil & Charcoal

Christy's preferred mediums are oil and charcoal. Her body of work continues to evolve and the subject matter primarily consists of figures or portraits. More recently, she has been drawn to paint from life whether it is a landscape or still life. She is a member of Teton Arts, Art Association of Jackson Hole, The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho, American Impressionist Society, American Women Artists, Laguna Plein Air Painter, and the Portrait Society of America.

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Oil painting

My emphasis is on plein air which may or may not be developed in the studio. Landscape subjects include the Grand Teton National Park, the Wasatch Mountains of Northern Utah and the Utah desert

Watercolors, Oils

I started painting at the same time I started architecture school, in 1955. Over the years I have found the two activities to have a beneficial, symbiotic connection. The discipline required for the practice of architecture, where everything you do has to be correct, brings care and craftsmanship to the painting. In turn, the expressiveness that is so important to painting adds life to the architecture. As connected as the two activities are, painting provides me with an escape to a personal vision that is all mine. In the beginning, architecture informed much of my painting. Increasingly, the painting has taken off into more romantic realms.

PO Box 543
3375 Aster Lane
Teton Village WY 83025
307.413.6837

Photographer

Cheyenne, WY

A Wyoming native, raised in Sheridan, Wyoming, Hawkins has lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming for 20+ years. Denise’s artistic journey over the last 10 years has been the result of a near-death health crisis, and her recovery from that crisis. As a result of her health challenge, her very outdoor-active lifestyle was curtailed for a time. She picked up her camera as a way to be able to get outside again and validate a yearning for artistic expression, as well as compensate for the activities she was no longer able to do while recovering.

Denise’s current photographic style, centered around landscapes, nature, and often abandoned architecture, is based on an emotional response to visual composition. A unique weather condition that changes the landscape, an animal in a unique setting or responding to its environment in an unexpected way, or an undisturbed abandoned structure or vehicle are the compositions that interest her most. Accentuated with natural lighting, timing, and strong compositional values, these scenes and snippets of time are made permanent. Denise is also especially drawn to patterns, symmetry, and line elements.

Her work is varied in subject but singular in its goal of depicting the harsh beauty as well as the fascinating decay of common and uncommon sights and sites in the Western United States. Denise’s travels and explorations frequently take her around the states of Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and western Nebraska.

Denise earned an Associate of Arts degree in Fine Art and an Associate of Applied Science degree in Drafting at Sheridan College in Sheridan, Wyoming. She went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Regis University in Denver, graduating Magna Cum Laude.

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S. Howell Studios
Jewelry

"The beauty of the natural world inspires me to co-create with the earth. Traditional metalsmithing techniques including sawing, forming, soldering, stone setting, and lost wax casting allow me to transform silver, gold and gemstones into wearable works of art. Each piece is handcrafted with recycled metals and sustainable practices. The intention of my jewelry is to inspire the wearer to slow down and approach even the most ordinary moments with a sense of wonder."

Paintings in oil on canvas.

A Wyoming-based artist with solo exhibitions in San Francisco and London, and group shows in Jackson at the Center for the Arts.

Painting

Gabriel López is a self-taught wildlife artist. Originally from Mexico where he obtained both a BA and MA in Education. After moving to the USA and working as a Spanish teacher he went back to college to get an Art Endorsement to keep creating and sharing his knowledge with his students. His love for art started since his childhood and art was his favorite subject in school. After that he spend most of his free time experimenting with different mediums until he found the power of oil paints. As a self-taught artist, Gabriel spent a lot of time reading about different oil techniques and art history. In his work you will notice a mix of different styles from realistic to abstract wildlife. The bold colors and texture in his paintings brings the emotions to life.

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Oil Painting

Laurie was born in Ohio and moved to Wyoming at the age of sixteen with her parents, finishing high school in Pinedale. To soften the blow of such a drastic move in her teenage years, her father promised her a horse, a promise that he kept shortly after the move. She has been enjoying horses and Wyoming ever since. For years, her family’s favorite summer pastime was horse packing into the Bridger Wilderness for week-long camping trips. After her daughters were raised, she began focusing full time on her passion for painting the Wyoming landscapes & wildlife that she enjoyed in her travels Since 2013, she has split her time between Jackson & Pinedale, although Pinedale holds her heart. When in Jackson, she joins the Teton Plein Air Painters on their weekly painting excursions. Painting “en plein air” is her preference whenever possible, and oil is her current medium of choice. As well as painting en plein air, she enjoys painting wildlife & still life in the studio. She feels an inner peace when working on one of her paintings, a peace that she hopes extends to the viewer. Laurie is a member of Oil Painters of America, Teton Plein Air Painters, Art Association of Jackson Hole, Sublette County Mixed Media, and a member & past president of the Wyoming Artists’ Association.

Drawings

"I've always had a desire to create, an artistic affinity for creativity. My career and life's work has been as a commercial and graphic artist. Thirty years with the Jackson Hole News, along with a continuing deep connection to Nature, have been important parts of my life, allowing me varied opportunities for creative expression.

My connection with the Art Association developed over many years and venues, starting when I taught pottery in the basement at Bean Hill. I’ve enjoyed the Plein Air group as an opportunity for camaraderie with like-minded friends and to explore and enjoy the intricacies of our environment. I continue to gain a deeper understanding of our surroundings through meticulous observations of landscape and plant- life. As I work with colors, shapes, seasonal rhythms, and interactions, my drawings provide me with appreciation, memories and better understanding of the beauty of the world around me."

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Watercolor landscapes

Sometimes it seems I was born with a crayon in my hand, a life-long doodler and book-margin illuminator. Pen-and-ink drawing was my first fine-art love, and later I expanded into woodcut, ink wash and sumi-e. After retiring from my day job in 2010 bravery struck and I began to tackle color. They tell you to hone your painting skills before attempting watercolor, but I began with watercolor and for most of a decade that was nearly all I did. I still find it addictive, loving that transparency one can achieve, but I have come to appreciate the flexibility, durability and intensity oil and acrylic paints as well. For me, painting is therapy.

Reed Mattison is a photographer and writer from Bowling Green, Kentucky. He earned his bachelor’s degree in photojournalism from Western Kentucky University. Reed grew up in southern Kentucky spending his childhood outdoors on family farms, spring creeks, and the karst hills that would come to influence his visual aesthetic and regionalist writings. His semi-rural upbringing and education in the immigrant resettlement town of Bowling Green provided a racially and culturally diverse community that was formative to his photographic philosophy and class consciousness. Now based in Jackson, Wyoming, his film photography and poetry focuses on themes of community, memory, and sense of place. When he isn't making photographs and writing with his neighbors, Reed is a babysitter, gardener, and teacher. Instagram: @wrmattison

Acrylic paintings

Paintings, Murals, Drawings, Photography, Sculpture

I was born and raised in France and studied art first in high school then at “L’Ecole des Beaux Arts” in Grenoble. I went on to Grenoble’s University and obtained a “Maîtrise” in Art History. I moved to Jackson, Wyoming in 1995, and started painting again in 1997. The Western culture, wildlife and landscape of the area became a great source of inspiration. I published a poster and note cards about the Wyoming symbol: the famous cowboy Stub Farlow riding his bronco. I presented it in a grid, added bright colors and a variation in each frame. I then painted a series of 13 Bison and a series of cowgirls. I went to rodeo grounds, Pow-wows, watched wildlife. My inspiration comes from direct observation.

I like to stylize my subjects, use vibrant colors or gold backgrounds to transform my subjects into icons or symbols. I believe colors, like music, create a language of rhythms and vibrant melodies.

Multi-disciplinary Artist
Alta, WY

Mona Monroe received a BA with a major in printmaking from Goddard College in Plainfield, VT and also studied painting at the Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA. In a practice that spans many years she has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions. She has been accepted into the Wyoming Governor’s Capital Art Exhibition for several years and received artist residencies at the Jentel Foundation in Banner, WY, Hypathia-In-The Woods in Shelton, WA. and the Centrum Foundation in Pt. Townsend, WA. She was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Wyoming Arts Council Fellowships. Her work is in private and public collections in the United States as well as abroad.

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Watercolor, ink & pencil

Annie Newcomb has a B.A. in Art and English. She hand built clay for thirty some years and was part of a few shows and sold in galleries and shops. Now she primarily works in watercolor, ink and pencil. Annie finds color fascinating, as well as design. A painting is a painting, it stands in its own right.

Photographer

Teton Valley, Idaho

Matt has spent the last ten years photographing the Greater Yellowstone Area. With a degree from the University of Wyoming in Wildlife Conservation and Management, the GYE was the perfect place for Matt to explore and photograph. His photography has changed over the years, from film to digital, with more of an emphasis on black and white photography.

The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is a diverse place. From geysers and rivers, to mountains and wildlife, every place you look, there is beauty and diversity. Matt tries to capture that beauty and diversity, that moment in time with his camera, so that others may judge the beauty that he sees and feels.

Painting, Drawing & Metalwork

Teton Valley, ID

Claire Peery lives and creates in Teton Valley, Idaho. As a goldsmith, Claire believes believes in saturating every moment with treasure, from views of glowing mountains to the humble glory of farm fresh eggs. Her painting practice consecrates the intrinsic value of our surroundings, while her metalwork affirms our responsibility to beget new treasures.

Her current series in-progress spotlights 16 fly fishing enthusiasts from the GYE, especially from Teton Valley. Claire interviews both professional and amateur anglers. Each participant is represented by an ink rendering of their preferred hand-tied fly as well as a charcoal portrait. The series has become an in-depth homage of the interface between humans and our incredible planet.

Claire’s fascination with culture and wilderness began in the North Georgia mountains. She has a BFA from the University of Georgia. and is experienced in gold-smithing, portraiture, painting, and non-ferrous forging. Claire has worked as a fine artist in Georgia, Colorado, and Idaho.

Oil
Landscapes, animals, flowers

peggyinjacksonhole@gmail.com

Shannon Marie Schacht is a self-taught professional wildlife artist. Originally from Maine, Shannon now resides in beautiful Jackson Hole, Wyoming where her creativity is inspired daily by the natural surroundings. The best way to describe her style is contemporary realism with dramatic, yet intimate compositions. These are not your typical wildlife paintings. She has the ability and a gift of conveying the personality of the animals that is instantly recognizable and endearing to her collectors. Shannon's artwork reflects her deep connection with animals, and she works hard at creating these visions with each brush stroke.

Painting & Drawing in oils and graphite

Eclectic reality.

"Give me a high quality photo and I can make you a painting or drawing."

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Watercolor & Acrylic, en plein air

“As an Idaho native, I have always been blessed with nature’s abundance and pioneer heritage. Teton Valley has been home for nearly four decades, and its special places continue to drive my work.”

Bronze Sculpture

Amy Bright Unfried's work began with traditional realistic human figures; later evolutions included abstract unique bronze sculptures derived from knitting and crochet, as well using crochet to make small bronze boxes. Her work has been exhibited widely since 1991 in galleries and museums across the country and has won many awards.

Current Professional Associations: Art Association of Jackson Hole, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club (NYC-past president), National Association of Women Artists (NYC)

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Lisa Walker Handmade
Screenprinted Textiles

Jackson, WY

Ink Drawings, Ceramics

Jackson-based artist working primarily in ink, ceramics and oils.