James Gunter's Studio

  On My Way to the Ridge. On a nice late summer day last week, there was nothing better I could think of doing than go exploring places in t...

12" x 16" Oil on Panel The Utah County plein air event is going on now. Paintings for the competition were turned in last Saturday...

  10" x 8" Oil on Panel The tree really does look like this.  There's a trail I walk from time to time that leads along the ba...

  9" x 12" Oil on Panel Down the valley from where I live is a canyon in the Wasatch Range I've visited a lot this year. A few...

In recent months I've spent a fair amount of time wandering through forests high up in the mountains. These forests have aspens and ever...

  11" x 14" Oil on Panel Spent the last week painting and getting ready for the annual Spring City Plein Air show. Got a late star...

In a year marked by such unpleasantries as a pandemic, recession, earthquake, riots, upcoming elections, and so forth, so many of the ple...

This Post returns to the theme of hiking in the  West Desert .  Looking Back Down the Trail, Towards Mt. Nebo. Early in May I traveled t...

This post compresses two hikes into one post. The first was on West Mountain a few days before the first day of Spring, the second hike was ...