James Gunter's Studio

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...

  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...

A new art exhibit opens tomorrow at Evergreen Gallery in SLC. Several local artists were each given a 20" x 20" painting panel ...

9" x 12" Oil on Panel Early this month I was back in the desert, near the Book Cliffs. There's so much to explore and pain...

20" x 20" Oil on Panel Here's a square painting for once. I kind of like the format, so I might just paint a few more of t...

11" x 14" Oil on Panel On the first of October I traveled to Helper, Utah, to spend a few days participating in a plein air ev...

9" x 12" Oil on Panel This is a plein air painting of Mt. Olympus as seen from Olympus Hills Park in Holliday. This section of...

12" x 16" Oil on Panel The Midway Art Association is holding it's annual plein air competition right now. Painting for the...

8" x 10" Oil on Panel Happy Summer Solstice! Here's a couple recent plein air paintings that I think have an appropriately...

A few of my plein air paintings are in a group show at the Brown House Gallery in Springville, Utah. The opening reception for the show ...

9" x 12" Oil on Panel This was painted during a recent trip to the the four corners region of southeast Utah. I was driving ar...

11" x 14" Oil on Panel This is a painting made last week at a ranch west of town. Autumn colors in the mountains came and went...

9" x 12" Oil on Panel This jumbled collection of ranch buildings beneath a big cottonwood tree has attracted my attention for ...

18" x 24" Oil on Panel The weather's still rather warm, but nights are becoming a little cooler and autumn color is beginn...