My first Art Show was last week. I was a "Guest Painter" at the vaunted Maynard Dixon Country show in Utah. Because I was a lecturer at the event, the Binghams wanted me to exhibit. Needless to say this was a little intimidating to have my stuff hanging with 30 of the best contemporary landscape painters in America. I didn't bring any frames so I was running around the morning of the show hunting up anything I could find. Susan Bingham found me an 11x14 and them Chris Morel interrupted his breakfast to hook me up with another. Ray Roberts took time from hanging his stuff to wire the frames for me. Didn't sell either painting but it will be a life long memory.
At one point I wasn't going to do it. Matt Smith, Ray Roberts and Charles Muench told me I was crazy not to be in the show. Matt even commented on my sage brush painting, giving it a thumbs up.
Later I discovered that "Western Art Collector" magazine listed me in the August, 2009 issue as an "emerging" painter. Imagine . . . my stuff hanging in Maynard Dixon's cabin with the best in America!
Here is the view from Dixon's porch.
