Englehart, Stanton
Stanton Englehart grew up on on a farm in Cortez, Colorado, moved to Durango in 1957 to attend Fort Lewis College, earned a Master's Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Colorado, and taught in the Art Department at Fort Lewis College for 30 years until he retired in 1991 to paint full time.
His unassuming and friendly aspect belies his many shows and honors. "Nature is my spiritual center," says Englehart. His inspiration is found in the open wild hills, mesas and canyons of the mountains and deserts of southwestern Colorado and Utah. He has covered thousands of miles in active meditation on his bicycle and in his truck, camping in the solitude of Utah canyon country renewing mind and body and acquiring ideas and focus for the hundreds of paintings that flow from him onto his canvases. We can glimpse his experiences in the ethereal energy of his painted skies and the glowing beauty of the rock walls and distant horizons. "The land is so vital and dynamic and holds within it the story of how biologically creative life is. That's what my paintings reflect."
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"Two Kinds of Blue"- Off in the distance is a mountain fading into the blue skies. The red canyons in the foreground lead you to the cool blue of the sky. Measuring 46 1/2 inches by 29 1/2 inches including the frame.
"Formation"- Mixed media landscape by Durango artist Stanton Englehart. Measuring 35 inches by 23 inches that includes the 3 1/2 inches of matting and framing.
"Think About This"- Stanton Englehart's mixed media landscape, captures the big sky of the Southwest. Measuring 40 inches by 32 1/2 inches that includes the 3 inches of mat and frame.
"Her Image"-by Stanton Englehart has shades of red and blue to depict the landscape of the Southwest. Elements of abstraction are worked in to the realism. Stanton plays with pushing the horizon and limits between the earth, sky and color planes.
"Just A Few Trees", by Durango Artist Stanton Englehart. Has a sky that is a blaze of red, a landscape with a few trees and the signature rock formations of the SW. The oil painting comes with a small, gold, wooden frame that was built by the artist.
"Talk A Little Louder"-Colorado artist Stanton Englehart paints the sky and mesas with passion. His oil paintings are abstract, intense, vibrant and visually capture the feeling one gets when viewing the vastness of the southwest landscape. Measuring 48 inches by 41 inches this oil painting has a small wood frame.
"Lizard Head Pass Willows". In the spring the willow trees along the water ways are a bright spring green. The evergreens lay between them and the mountains in the distance. The painting is framed in metallic gold.
"September" captures the wash of golds and warms tones, that take over the mountains of the four corners area in the fall. Framed in a copper metal frame and matted in gray.
"After a Fire" capture the feeling of the after math of a forest fire. Framed in copper metal and matted in rust brown.
"Granite" is a mixed media painting by Durango artist Stanton Englehart. Another fabulous landscape where the mountains meet the water in the southwest. Framed in silver with an off white mat.
