Enjoy this selection of Southwest online art gallery video tours and artist interviews. You’ll meet a wide range of artists and learn about their lives, their inspirations, their art techniques, and much more. Plus, we’ll take you inside western art galleries on a virtual tour, and you’ll hear about their upcoming art events and the artists they’re featuring.
For more information about these artists and galleries, please visit their sites:
Western Artists
Sharon Markwardt | Waxlander Gallery
Sharon Markwardt is a fourth-generation Texan and fifth-generation artist who is represented by Waxlander Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. Meet the artist and discover her bold, colorful oil paintings of horses, cows, donkeys, and other animals.
Phyllis Kapp | Waxlander Gallery
Waxlander Gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, NM, is owned by expressionistic watercolor artist Phyllis Kapp, who talks about her work in this video interview. The gallery represents over 30 fine artists including Andrée Hudson, Marshall Noice, and Sharon Markwardt and pastel artist Sangita Phadke.
Poteet Victory | McLarry Modern Artist
Native American artist Poteet Victory paints in his studio on the upper floor of McLarry Modern art gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Learn about the artist’s abstract paintings, palette knife techniques, and more in this artist profile video.
B.C. Nowlin | Manitou Galleries Artist
Meet western artist B.C. Nowlin at Manitou Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Learn about the painter’s life, where he finds his inspiration, and more in this artist interview video.
J.R. Eason
J.R. Eason creates figurative bronze sculptures of women, cowboys, and more. Learn about the western sculptor and her work in this artist profile video.
Donna Bernstein
Western artist Donna Bernstein talks about her mixed-media work in this video interview.
David Jackson
Meet western artist David Jackson, who is well known for his accurate depictions of wildlife and western landscapes. Jackson was featured in Southwest Art‘s Artist to Watch column in the November 2000 issue.
Cary Henrie
Learn about the life, work, and inspiration of western landscape painter Cary Henrie, who was featured in Southwest Art as an Artist to Watch in January 2006, and in our Portfolio titled “Split Personalities” in the May 2008 issue.
Bruce Marion
Western artist Bruce Marion talks about his landscape, figurative, and abstract paintings in this profile video.
Beth Zink
Beth Zink paints in acrylics to create dramatic close-ups of flowers and plants. Learn more about this western artist and her work in this video profile.
Heidi Rosner
Watercolorist Heidi Rosner’s inspiration comes from scenes in and around the Southwest, the West Coast, and locations all over the world. In this video, Rosner talks about her work and life as an artist in Scottsdale, AZ.
Jossy Lownes
In this artist interview video, Jossy Lownes talks about what challenges and inspires her as an artist, as well as her recent shift in focus to primarily figurative painting.
Scott Rogers
Meet western sculptor Scott Rogers, who was featured in Southwest Art‘s sculpture portfolio in July 2004. View Rogers’ portrayals of the Old West in bronze sculptures, and learn about his passion for western sculpture and cowboy art.
Steve Taylor
Steve Taylor creates figurative, western, and wildlife artworks. In this video interview, the artist talks specifically about his portrait paintings and where he finds his inspiration.
Sue Averell
In this video interview, western artist Sue Averell talks about her impressionistic urban landscape and floral paintings, including her use of color and palette-knife techniques to create her works.
Aleta Pippin
In her video interview, Santa Fe artist Aleta Pippin talks about her abstract paintings and the secrets she’s discovering to staying inspired.
Barbara Meikle
Meet impressionist painter and gallery owner Barbara Meikle and learn about her art gallery and inspiration.
Melinda K. Hall
Our artist video interview with contemporary Santa Fe artist Melinda K. Hall explores the artist’s inspirations and process.
Mary Bechtol
Mixed-media artist Mary Bechtol describes the decades-old epiphany that shapes the work she paints today.
Linda St. Clair
In this video interview, self-taught artist Linda St. Clair describes her impressionistic animal paintings and how she found her painting niche.
Southwest Art Galleries
Wilder Nightingale Fine Art
Wilder Nightingale Fine Art in Taos, NM, has been serving new and seasoned art collectors for more than 20 years. In this video, owner Robert Wilder Nightingale discusses the variety of artwork on view by the gallery’s more than 35 western artists.
Pippin Meikle Fine Art
Take a tour of Pippin Meikle Fine Art, a Santa Fe gallery that specializes in original contemporary artwork that’s full of life, color, and energy.
Framing Concepts Gallery
Take a tour of Framing Concepts Gallery in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Framing Concepts Gallery specializes in oil, watercolor, and pastel paintings by 20 regional and local artists.
Hunter Kirkland Contemporary | Art Gallery Video Tour
Tour Hunter Kirkland Contemporary gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The gallery specializes in contemporary and abstract art, including sculpture and paintings in a variety of media.
Purple Sage Galeria
Purple Sage Galeria is a new gallery in historic old town Albuquerque, New Mexico, featuring artists who are members of Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, a group of painters who paint New Mexico landscapes from life.
Ventana Fine Art
Take a tour of Ventana Fine Art, located on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The gallery features both contemporary and traditional art in a wide variety of styles and mediums, including paintings and sculptures from artists throughout the West and beyond.
Paul Scott Gallery
Meet Larisa Aukon, featured artist at Paul Scott Gallery, in Scottsdale, AZ. Take a virtual tour of the gallery and Aukon’s work in particular. Paul Scott Gallery also represents Angie Renfro and Michael Steirnagle.
Manitou Galleries
Step inside Manitou Galleries in Santa Fe for a virtual tour and learn about the artists they represent, including Star Liana York, Kim Wiggins, Liz Wolf, and Jim Eppler.
Nedra Matteucci Galleries
Nedra Matteucci Galleries of Santa Fe, NM, features the works of blind Native American sculptor Michael Naranjo, who speaks about his work and process in this artist video interview. The gallery also represents painters Walt Gonske, Ramon Kelley, John and Terri Kelly Moyers, and Chris Morel, sculptors Dan Ostermiller and George Carlson and more.
Steve Elmore Indian Art
Steve Elmore Indian art specializes in antique Southwestern Indian art including Indian pottery, Navajo weavings, turquoise jewelry, basketry, paintings, and photography and contemporary paintings by Steve Elmore.
Mark White Fine Art
Mark White Fine Art features artist Mark White’s kinetic sculptures and works by his son Ethan White as well as Conrad Kern, Charles Veilleux, and Kathleen Earthrowl.
Meyer Gallery
Meyer Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, offers contemporary representational art from over 50 living artists including Robert Daughters, William Hook, and Dan Gerhartz.