Gallery Moab is an artist-owned and operated cooperative gallery dedicated to supporting local artists and building community through the arts. We love to share our joy in creating works that celebrate the beauty and wonder of this remarkable place we call home.

This month we welcome Guest Artist Nancye Culbreath, whose passion is painting the raw and rugged beauty of the canyon country around her. “I really believe in order for art to have a true soul, it needs to come from an emotional connection with the artist. To know your subject intimately, you have to spend time with it,” Culbreath says. Her home and studio north of Monticello, Utah, with Canyonlands, Arches, Monument Valley, and Natural Bridges practically in her back yard, offers her endless inspiration for her art. “Canyons lend themselves to graphic shapes and extraordinary color,” she says. Since moving to Utah Culbreath has been painting full time when she is not hiking the canyons, sightseeing, or working on her rural property.

Culbreath says she has been an artist all her life, taking numerous workshops and experimenting with different mediums including watercolor, acrylics, and inks before finding her medium of choice in oils. Her earlier work was a realistic portrayal of the landscape. More recently she has changed her palette and is painting in a more impressionistic, bold and colorful style, reminiscent of Maynard Dixon and Ed Mell in its simplicity and boldness. She says, “ I see my work changing over time by becoming less hindered by capturing exactness in a scene but allowing the viewer to fill in what they know to be there.”

Culbreath works from photographs, field sketches, and notes or small paintings done on location, later working in her studio to develop them into finished paintings. She often uses vibrant acrylic colors to create an under painting, giving a warm glow to the overlying oils. “I am looking forward to painting outdoors more,”says Culbreath. “I believe that is the truest way to see.”

Ceramic artist Joanne Savoie is our featured artist this month. She has “thrown” her pottery around Moab for several decades. Her unique, fun, and functional designs come from the geologic forces that have shaped the mountains, rivers and canyons that surround her home in Moab. Describing her inspiration, Savoie says, “The geologic exposures of erosion by wind, water and fire, create the textures, patterns, colors and possibilities for artistic expressions.” There’s always something new and surprising fresh out of her kiln!

Join us to visit with Culbreath and Savoie during Art Walk, Saturday September 9, 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Open Sunday & Monday 11 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.; Tuesday through Saturday 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Call 435-220-0891 and we will gladly open by appointment.

One of the artists is always on hand to answer your questions or help you find that perfect gift or memento of your canyon country vacation.

One of the artists is always on hand to answer your questions or help you find that perfect gift or memento of your canyon country vacation.

We look forward to your visit!

Gallery Moab LCA • 59 South Main Street #1, Moab, Utah 84532 • 435-355-0024
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