The 2021 rendition of the Bighorn Rendezvous at Big Horn, Wyoming’s the Brinton Museum is back and ready for action on Saturday, August 21. This year collectors and Western art lovers can explore the works of 12 artists from across the country: Chula Beauregard, Bye Bitney, Jake Gaedtke, Carol Guzman, James Jackson, TD Kelsey, Kathryn Mapes Turner, Julie Oriet, Gregory Packard, Jordyn Payne, John Potter and Chessney Sevier. A quick draw event will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., in which works created during that time will then be auctioned off at the Brinton Gala fundraiser that evening at 5 p.m.
Gregory Packard, Impulse, oil, 20 x 24”
Chula Beauregard, Summer Hay Loft, oil on linen, 8 x 8”
“I have always had a passion for drawing and laying out designs,” says Jackson, a painter and leatherworker. “My work is a response to my experience and its relationship to the visual metaphor. Regrouping of visual keys and cross referencing leads to the generation of new ideas and clarification of universal principles. My leather carving and tooling is designed with the idea of creating energy and movement in the same way that exceptional music, dance and poetry shape our understanding of beauty.”
Julie Oriet, Late Summer, pastel, 6½ X 4½”
Jordyn Payne, Listen to the Birds, oil, 24 x 12”
The impressionist, textured paintings of Packard practically jump off the canvas. His oil Impulse depicts a forest of thin, spindly trees in autumn, rendered in shades of gold. “Have you ever been in the autumn woods when it’s as if you’re looking through stained glass—the vivid glow and translucent harmony?” Packard says of the piece. Poetic Greys is a winter scene, quiet, somber and peaceful. “Grays are the cornerstones for creating harmonizing and vivid color, even though they are often unnoticed while doing so. I love them in nature, and I love them in painting,” he says. “Some scenes are loaded, and the focus can be the grays themselves. Unfolding as a poem, they shift from warm to cool with little value change—subtle opportunities to weave together complimentary notes as if writing a love letter to the beautiful land.”
Gregory Packard, Poetic Greys, oil, 16 x 30”
Works by Bighorn Rendezvous participating artists are currently on view at the Brinton Museum leading up to the big event on August 21. —
Bighorn Rendezvous
Through August 21, 2021
• Quick draw event, Aug. 21, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Brinton Gala fundraiser, Aug. 21, 5 p.m.
The Brinton Museum, 239 Brinton Road
just outside Big Horn, WY 82833
(307) 672-3173, www.thebrintonmuseum.org
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