Wilkerson Fine Art and Consulting

Desmond O’Hagan paints in both pastel and oils. He is listed in the Who’s Who in American Art and is a Mater Pastelist with the Pastel Society of America in New York City.

O’Hagan is an award-winning artist whose art has been featured in several national and international magazines as well as three books. He has had several one-man shows and has participated in group exhibits in America, China, Japan and France.

David Lee born in Canton, China was trained in the classical tradition of Oriental brushwork. Not only a master of technique, Lee does not simply reproduce what nature presents but expands his imagination. Lee has perfected a rich sense of composition and style combining the delicate loveliness of watercolors on silk with Western concepts of design.

Sydney M. Laurence (1865-1940) was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1865, and died in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1940. Laurence studied under famed maritime artist Edward Moran and the Art Student League of New York. Laurence lived in Cornwall, England artist colony at St. Ives from 1889 until 1898. Exhibited: Royal Salon of British Artists and Paris Salon, 1890,1894(honorable mention), 1895. Laurence was an artist-correspondent in the Spanish American War and for Black and White in South Africa. In search of gold he arrived in Alaska in 1904. Laurence spent his time between Alaska, Los Angeles, California and the Seattle/Tacoma Washington area. He is considered Alaska's foremost historical painter. An entire gallery is dedicated to him at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art. Laurence paintings hang in museums in Alaska, New York, Vermont, Washington and in the White House in Washington DC.

My recent series of paintings are contemporary landscapes depicting quiet and familiar scenes of the mountainous West. These pieces emerge from an intensely personal relationship with place and atmosphere. I prefer style over detail, interpreting subtleties of color and planes of space in a way that visually articulates my emotional connection to the environment.

 

David W. Jackson was born in 1951 in Ogden, Utah.  Working primarily in watercolors and oils, he is known for his richly colored impressionistic paintings of wildlife and landscape.  He has also created bronze sculptures with western themes.  He lives in Mountain Green, Utah.

Jackson earned a bachelors degree from Weber State University where he studied under Farrell Collett; he later earned a masters of fine arts from Utah State University.  Jackson divided his time between two careers—professional artist and high school teacher—for 27 years.  Since retiring as a teacher in 2000, he has focused his energy on his own art. 

Ferdinand’s Door (1997) was featured in the Springville Museum of Art spring salon.  

Tiffany Stevenson is finishing up her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Weber State University. She has studied under Prix de West wildlife artist Dave Wade, as well as nationally known Dick Heichberger and William Scott Jennings, and plans on learning from more of today's masters.

Artist Statement:

My inspiration for art is nature, whether it is a group of sunlit aspen or and an elegant bull elk standing proudly on a sun drenched ridge. It is my goal to convey to the viewer the beauty and power that I see in the natural world. My goal in depicting wildlife is to depict something of the animals' essence, their individual characteristics. I enjoy the constant learning and growing attained from painting en plein air. It is here that I learn quickest, as I am forced to speedily design interesting compositions, record accurate color and shade notes, and most importantly, to capture the fleeting feeling of that moment.

Hancock received his Bachelors Degree from Weber State University and his Masters Degree in Guidance & Counseling from Brigham Young University. He is a member (Past & Present) Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi & Phi Delta Kappa, a past recipient of Utah Teacher of the Year Award, past Chairman of the Pacific Regional Art Association, and past Chairman of the Weber School Districts "Arts in Action" activities.

As an artist, what captures my attention is the simplicity of everyday instances.  Light falling on snow, the colors and textures of an old building, people engaged in activity or quietly preoccupied, the solitude of a mountain stream or the grandeur of a desert plateau.  Everywhere I go I see a possible work of art.  The joy is being able to create that art and showing others what I experienced at that moment.  I was raised in the beautiful desert and mountain lands of eastern Utah.  From an early age I have had a desire to put on canvas what I have learned from this land.  As an adult I have had the opportunity to live in northern Utah and paint the pastoral valleys and rugged mountain landscapes.  My painting style has developed by trying to capture the freshness of a fleeting moment or a time of day.  If I labor too long capturing the moment it seems to fade away.  I enjoy working alla prima (all at once) or en plein air (out of doors).  If I can say what I want with the stroke of the brush or pastel, that is what I strive for.