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Show C-10 Wed/Thurs/Fri, February 12-14, 2020 The Park Record COURTESY OF SHERRY JOHNSON Blue Boar Inn & Restaurant While Sherry Johnson enjoys painting skulls of deer and wildebeests, she also enjoys painting skulls of more exotic creatures as seen in “Hippo.” Continued from C-1 Exhibit opens on Saturday transparent layers and weave my way through a work, and then I’ll scratch out of a wet layer to reveal the colors or what I did underneath. This is a good way to build up texture.” Like many artists, Johnson loved drawing and painting when she was a child but took a break from it to raise her family. “When my kids grew up, I went back to school and got a BFA in painting and drawing,” she said. “So, while I started my art career late, I feel like I’m revving my engine now.” Sanders finds structure in barns Sanders, like Johnson, fell in love with drawing and painting when he was a child. Early in his career, he painted Western landscapes of trees, farmlands and mountains. “My wife and I would travel around to find these places, and she would take photos of the different barns we would see,” Sanders said. “One day, I asked her if I could use one of her barn pictures for a painting, and it took off from there.” Sanders, who has been represented by Montgomery-Lee Fine Art since the mid 2000s, said he is drawn to barns for a variety of reasons. “I like how they are made for completely utilitarian purposes, but the design, shapes and colors add an abstract element to the landscape,” he said. Not all barns make a good painting, because some of them aren’t very pleasing to the eye,” according to Sanders. “So I spend a lot of time looking mostly for the right shape,” he said. “Since my paintings are pretty simplified, I work mainly with the composition of shapes within the canvas.” At the same time, Sanders tries to find different ways of representing barns in his works. “Many artists talk about how you shouldn’t put anything in the dead center of a work, or that everything should be off to one side,” he said. “So I sometimes like to put a barn in the center of the painting, and when I do, it’s just me asking, ‘Why can’t I do this?’” Sanders has found that even when he puts a barn in the middle of his composition, the barn itself can give an asymmetrical element to his painting. “Sometimes the sides of a barn aren’t the same, and the landscape can be different on each side of the barn,” he said. To capture that flexibility, Sanders prefers to work with brushes and oil paint. “There is no other medium that is as versatile and can create the desired effects that I want,” he explained. “If I mess up, I can wipe it off, or I can let it dry and paint over the top of it.” Sanders began his road to becoming a professional artist while taking art classes at Utah WEDNESDAY NIGHT CHEF’S DINNER $29.95 for Three Courses Enchanting European Inn & Fine Dining Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Served Daily Sunday Brunch COURTESY OF JARED SANDERS Oil painter Jared Sanders said he likes to break some of the rules of art composition by putting his subject in the middle of his work like he does on “Greycliff.” State University. “I thought I needed to learn commercial art to make a living to be successful,” he said. “I learned that might not be the case when I graduated. So I went into fine art. Although I worked a few day jobs and did night shifts, I eventually got here.” AAA FOUR DIAMOND AWARD, 2019 Inn & Restaurant BEST OF STATE 2019 Best Northern European Fine Dining Best Bed & Breakfast Best Plated Brunch 1235 Warm Springs Road, Midway, Utah 435.654.1400 • www.theblueboarinn.com Roof Top Snow Removal STARTING @ $35/SF INSTALLED (3CM THICKNESS) Free UNDERMOUNT STAINLESS STEEL KITCHEN SINK with minimum purchase of 50 sqft. FOR A FREE ESTIMATE CALL: SUE LIPKE 435.901.1722 801.487.8663 VISIT OUR SHOWROOM AT 3267 SOUTH 300 WEST (I-15 EXIT 303) Tickets: shows.OPRockwell.com Get 53% Off the newsstand price when you subscribe! Aaron Benward, Host Earl Bud Lee NASHviLLE UNPLUggEd Aaron Benward • Earl Bud Lee • Sinclair • Rick Brantley THU 2.13 | doors: 6 PM / Show: 7 PM Sinclair Rick Brantley For an in-county rate of only $56 a year, you can save 53% from the newsstand and receive: • Home Delivery • Park Record E-edition • Real Estate Monthly • All Park Record Magazines • Free Sunday Salt Lake Tribune Call 435-649-9014 to get your subscription today! RAgE AgAiNST THE SUPREMES vALENTiNES dAy fOR SiNgLES & COUPLES fRi 2.14 | dOORS: 8 PM / SHOW: 9 PM THE LiL’ SMOkiES SUN 2.1 6 | doors: 7:30 PM / Show: 830 PM 268 Main Street, Park City, Utah follow us @oprockwell @therockwelllisteningroom Select option 3 when prompted Save even more with a 2 year subscription! |