The Bighorn Gallery at Dead Horse Point State Park is exhibiting original paintings by three members of the Plein Air Painters of the Four Corners (PAP4C). This collection of paintings is titled, ‘Three Artists, Three Media, One Landscape’ with oil paintings by Carolyn Dailey, pastels by Sonya Johnson and watercolors by Barbara Klema, on display through June 30th, 2015.

Carolyn Dailey was born in Virginia, but has lived in the southwest since she went to college. She has been a full time and professional artist since 1987 and a plein air painter for 25 years. Her primary training in the plein air tradition was by workshop study at the Fechin Institute of Taos, NM with Mark Daily, Michael Lynch and Ned Jacobs. Over her career Carolyn has participated in numerous one woman and group shows in the USA and Guatemala, including a one woman show at the National Ixchel Museum in Guatemala City in 1999. She has also won top awards in recent plein air shows and festivals. Carolyn currently lives in Moab, UT but also resided in Colorado and Guatemala.

Sonya Johnson is a landscape painter living in Durango, CO. She was born in Bethesda, MD, but grew up in Prescott and Tucson, AZ. Despite a lifelong interest in art, her path as an artist was anything but direct. Primarily self-taught, she took two art classes while at the University of Arizona that gave her a foundation of drawing skills and color techniques. Later, while attending podiatry school in San Francisco, she was hired to do scientific illustrations, including some commissions for journal articles and presentations. Since 2011, the landscape of the Colorado Plateau has been the focus of her subject matter, done on site whenever possible. She has had work accepted into numerous juried shows and has won several awards. Her current medium is soft pastel, with her style falling between representational and impressionistic.

During the last 30 years of working as a professional artist, Barbara Tobin Klema has been the former owner of two art galleries and one teaching studio and worked with botanical illustration and graphic design. She taught watercolor, drawing, and design at Fort Lewis College, and teaches privately. Barbara has recently completed a new body of work focusing on music and musicians, two of which were chosen for the Durango Bluegrass Meltdown posters. Barbara has had paintings shown in the prestigious Rocky Mountain National Watercolor Society Exhibit and the very competitive Colorado Open. The current exhibit at Dead Horse Point reflects her appreciation of the canyons of southwest Utah. Barbara loves living and working in dramatic and beautiful southwest landscapes.

During the exhibit, original paintings and cards are available for purchase. Dead Horse Point State Park is located nine miles north of Moab on US 191, and 23 miles south on SR 313. The visitor center is open daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Park admission is $10. For more information, contact the park at 435-259-2614.
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