Artist: McKenzie S. Paxton
Title: Spring in Springville Wetlands
Medium: Oil
Price: $1,600
Dimensions: 16 x 20 inches
Artist Biography: McKenzie S. Paxton grew up in Elk Ridge, Utah, a small town in the hills of south Utah Valley. She grew up in a beautiful canyon and found an early and lasting love of the mountains. Her father taught her to find wonder in the mountains as she hunted, hiked, and skied with him. Her grandfather was a snowcat driver at Deer Valley and her earliest ski memories are racing down Wide West. McKenzie has spent many drives through Utah’s valleys and mountains staring out the window, noticing how the light hits the land differently each day. She has made studying and painting the beauty of the mountains her career. In the winter months McKenzie paints skiers nestled in the slopes of great Western US resorts. In the summer she paints the local landscape and mountains. When she can sneak away from her two vigilant young daughters, she paints en plein air/on site. McKenzie’s landscape painting was fostered by her mentors, J. Kirk Richards and Linda Curly Christensen. She spent a two-year apprenticeship under Linda Curly Christensen painting large landscape murals for LDS temples and studied in J. Kirk Richards’ academy. She hopes her art inspires viewers to notice the often ignored beauty they encounter, then moves them to be in places they love. She is currently based in Provo, Utah.
