Simpson Gallery
Simpson Gallery is home to:
Art of the San Juan Mountains…The Black Canyon NP
and other cool places
Original watercolor and oil paintings by
Mike Simpson
Plain air and studio paintings from $200 to $6000
Prints from $45
Open daily except Sunday
Meet the artist
11-4 thur., fri., 11-2 sat.
Other times by appointment
509 E. Main Street, Montrose
970-209-8271
Using watercolors for their transparency and loose suggestive qualities or oil paints for their opacity, texture and quality of brush stroke, I paint the people, places and things of small town, rural America. From the towering peaks of the Rocky Mountains, to the towering grain silos of Kansas or the small adobe casas of New Mexico, to the fishing boats in a marina on the Northern British Columbia coast, the cowboys of Montana, the bewhiskered bikers of Sturgis or the girls on the corner in Winslow, Arizona, they all have a story.
With my painting kit I travel the backroads and by-ways of the West, often on my motorcycle seeking out the character of my subjects and capture it using the effect of light, shadow, shape and value. I get the information I need from roadside sketches or photographs and use those studies for more complex work back in my studio.
Come with me as I paint my way along and I’ll tell you the tale of the people I meet, the places I go and the things I do.