Apr 24, 2020 | The Story Behind
Painted in 2019 “Now this painting started out from a previous Salt Lake Mission President’s wife. She came to me and asked me to do a painting for her husband. On their way to the mission home in Sandy from their home they drove over the Jordan River and had a...
Apr 9, 2020 | The Story Behind
Painted in 1988 “I had wanted to do a painting of the St. George Temple, so I did my usual thing where I would drive, walk and hike around the area. I went up into the mountains to look down on the temple and just fill myself with lots of images until I could...
Mar 27, 2020 | The Story Behind
Painted in 1989 Sometime in 1988, I was awakened from a very interesting and detailed dream. It seemed very real, like I was actually there. I got up and went downstairs into my studio and did a little sketch of the dream because I was afraid that I would forget what...
Feb 4, 2020 | The Story Behind
Painted in 1993 “This is a painting that I did many years ago with the help of a lot of great historians, including Truman and Ann Madsen, Dann W. Hone, and Kelly Ogden. I actually spent a full year studying and preparing for this painting. I wanted to do a painting...
Aug 27, 2019 | The Story Behind
Painted in 1985 “The Oakland Temple is quite meaningful to me as I was a young boy growing up in the San Francisco Bay area in a little town called Walnut Creek just outside of Oakland. Oakland was our stake center so we went from Walnut Creek through the...
Jul 17, 2019 | The Story Behind
Painted in 2006 This is a painting of Mary Goble Pay and this whole thing started when Lee Groberg filmed the documentary of the William Martin Handcart Companies. He invited some artists to be up on location and I was thrilled to go up there because in Wyoming where...
