Heather Johnson Beary | Arizona

Heather Johnson Beary is an award-winning sculptor from Prescott, Arizona. She was raised in Central Florida where she roamed the cypress swamps and palmetto forests, forging a life-long love of the simple tranquility provided by the natural world. Heather…

Maura Allen | Arizona

Work and play, story and cinema, landscape and legends—they all layer together to shape our view of the American West. Real and romanticized, the West is the center of my work. I start each piece on location, looking directly into the sun; ranches,…

Stephanie Campos | Arizona

Arizona native Stephanie Campos showed an interest in drawing at a young age. Her kindergarten teacher was first to notice her natural talent for detail. At thirteen, she began creating realistic portraits in pastel, oil, and acrylic. “With photographic…

Harper Henry | Arizona

Harper Henry is an award-winning artist creating unique, abstract-realistic paintings focused mainly on horses, animals and the American West. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Illustration, she had a successful 30 year career as a designer…

Shawn Cameron | Arizona

Shawn began her professional art career over 30 years ago. With oil on canvas she shares the heritage of the contemporary western rancher and cowboy that’s been her family’s world for over 140 years in Arizona and continues today into the 5th generation. Resource…

Heather Burton | Colorado

Heather Burton is a traditional oil painter living in Northern Colorado with her husband and fellow painter Dave Santillanes and their two children Conner and Callie. I paint the things that I love and inspire me. I have always been in awe of the…

Sherry Cobb-Kelleher | Colorado

Sherry Cobb is an artist who sees no barriers between art and reality – both are vital functions of living. She is as intensely passionate about ranching and horses as she is about creating a painting. Much of Sherry's expression and strength lies in…

Mejo Okon | New Mexico

Mejo has been invited CowgirlUp! since 2018. In 2022 she won Best of Show, last year she was awarded Artists Choice Award. She hails from New Mexico and paints the dramatic colors of the West. Nationally recognized, her painting “Glow” graced the…

Samantha Sherry | Tennessee

Samantha’s work examines the relationships between memory, family, identity, and loss. Drawing upon her equestrian past (and present) horse forms and fragments become the language through which these ideas are explored and articulated. “Horses…

Julie Nighswonger | Wyoming

Julie Nighswonger’s art exemplifies life in the West in a way that captures the beauty of her surroundings. In a style that she describes as impressionistic realism, Nighswonger captures moments that are all too often taken for granted.  Her…