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Visiting Artist Program

The Art Studio & Gallery rotates its exhibits every four weeks, highlighting the work of Utah artists. On the first Saturday of each new exhibit, the artist will be in the studio demonstrating their creative process from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Additionally, we’ve expanded our Visiting Artist program throughout the resort to include a Quarterly Visiting Artist at the Spa and in the hallway between the General Store and the Deli.

Interested artists may submit a portfolio to the Art Studio & Gallery Manager for consideration at

July

July Visiting Artist

Alison Spencer

Alison Hill Spencer has been birding and drawing for as long as she can remember. Growing up, her dad led the family on adventures around the world to hunt for birds with their binoculars—and then encouraged her to draw their favorite ones. After their family moved west, they’d often visit the wetlands surrounding Utah’s lakes to watch the shorebirds, pelicans, eagles and osprey, ducks and herons, and, on still winter nights, owls. Today, Alison’s dad is 80, but they still head out every week to enjoy the birds of Utah.

Through her bird portraits, Alison hopes to spark curiosity about the lands and waterways that sustain our local ecosystems, and a love for the birds we share them with. She believes that as people learn about local birds, they’ll be encouraged to be better stewards.

Alison graduated with a BFA in Illustration from Utah Valley University. She currently divides her time between painting and teaching. You can learn more about her work and the birds she paints on Instagram @alisonhspencerart or on her website at alisonhspencerart.com.

Upcoming Visiting Artists

Colby Sanford

Artist Demonstration:12pm-3pm | Aug 8 | Art Studio & Gallery

BIO: Colby A. Sanford is a figurative realist painter with a heart for finding poetry in the prosaic. Growing up in an unconventional home, he was encouraged to paint on the walls of his bedroom, and later his bedroom was a yurt. After traveling in Asia and Europe, he returned to start a family in his hometown, where he now lives and works. Sanford paints at the base of the mountains in Provo, Utah—at home in the living room and occasionally in his basement studio. He works with a restricted acrylic palette on wooden panels, highlighting the beauty in the mundane. Many works are paired with short-form poetry that further parses the extraordinaries from the commonplace of everyday life. His most precious moments are spent at home with his wife and three daughters, often baking oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.

STATEMENT: Like sweeping the floor or doing the dishes, painting is a daily, meditative act that allows me to better live and appreciate my everyday life. It is between the strands of my wife’s hair, electrified in late afternoon light, or nestled deep in the knit stitch of my daughter’s faded periwinkle blanket that I find my brightest moments of inspiration.

The human figure is a universal doorway and a starting point for me to examine, relate to, and delve into my own life. I do not make paintings of people, but of quiet moments in their lives as they live them. I use the formal elements of painting to speak metaphorically about relationships and our connection to the world around us.

Mother Earth never ceases to inspire. I often spend time painting from life the somehow both simple and majestic forms of nature, whether it is the zinnias I start from seed with my wife and daughters, the dandelions that pop up by chance, the red rock canyons a day trip away, or the snowy mountains outside my front window.

Fitted to the quiet attitude of my work, my color palette is limited, muted, and rooted in earth tones. Personal and cultural growth, change, and development most often happen quietly and over long periods of time, not in bright bursts of color. Life is not lived in saturation.

I follow an impulse to jot down words, phrases, or stanzas that come to mind as I paint. Composing these into short-form poems allows me to develop an idea within a painting without overworking the panel. The relationship between word and image welcomes a third space between mediums that can feel more personal and universal than either word or picture alone.

Through my practice, I am not trying to find or define grand importance or meaning. I simply aim to capture moments of closeness—moments that echo—by reliving those split-second sacrednesses with paintbrush or pencil.

Laura Hope Mason

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Brandt Berntson

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Mark Crenshaw

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Nancy Willis

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