Amery Bohling Paintings

Amery Bohling is well known for her vivid depictions of the American West. Her favorite subject — and the one for which she is most famous — is the Grand Canyon, endlessly fascinating, she says, for its vastness, complexity, and transcendent light. She has painted the Canyon many times, finding challenges in capturing the timelessness of the rocks, the ephemeral quality of the light and sky, and the fiery reds and brilliant blues that dominate that unique landscape.

Although she grew up in Phoenix, Bohling didn't discover the Canyon until long after she had earned her B.F.A. in painting and drawing from the University of Arizona and spent a year of her formal study at the Marchutz School of Art in Aix-en-Provence, France. There she learned to paint outdoors with the subject in full view, a technique that allows the artist to incorporate natural light and movement. She left France with a passion for outdoor painting, and in those early days, when she lived in California, her subjects...