Jackson Hole · Arts & Theater

Exhibition Opening: "I walk the hills I paint." - Wendell Locke Field

Thursday, November 19

When

5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Where

Shari Brownfield Fine Art, 55 South Glenwood Street, Jackson, WY, 83001

Price

The catalog did not print a separate price. Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce has the rest.

Source

Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce

Opening November 19, 2026, Shari Brownfield Fine Art presents new paintings by Kelly, Wyoming, artist Wendell Locke Field. Field paints the places he knows best: cabins, yurts, greenhouses, and the hills around his home. Field grew up on a dairy farm in Michigan, where barns and sheds were places to play and, later, to make art. Travels through Asia, Africa and the Americas, including Nepal and New Mexico, showed him how homes and villages can feel like part of the land around them. That connection between shelter and landscape is still at the center of his work. Today Field lives in a yurt in Kelly. His days follow the weather and the light, hauling water and bringing in firewood. "I walk in the hills I paint," he says. Paintings such as Behind the Yurt (Untitled 15), Enid's Fireplace 18, West Kelly Cabins and Along Goodrick Lane 11 come straight from that daily life, painted from places he returns to again and again. What first draws Field to a subject is often a line, a shape or a color. The straight edges of a building meet the looser forms of trees, hills and sky. He often makes a quick drawing on site, and an idea may stay with him for years before it becomes a painting. Bold, carefully placed color gives familiar scenes like Park House in Spring and WLF World Headquarters 21 their energy. As the seasons turn and these places change, the paintings also become a record: a moment in the life of a place, held by an artist who pays close attention to the everyday.