Dennis Ziemienski

Such was his approach to creating the 2018 Fall Arts Festival poster painting. Ever drawn to the awesome scale of the Tetons, he considered the personalities bordering the well-worn lore of the Wild West—the heroines of Jackson Hole. Casting his daughter, a lifelong rider, as muse (as he often does), he rendered a cowgirl and her horse en route home. The pair pause in the Snake River, muzzle playfully submerged and hat brim meditatively upturned to the Tetons. The restorative scene stems from a river trip Ziemienski took years ago...