The Artist

Angie was born and raised in Idaho, where she learned drawing from her mother, also an artist. But as a whole, Angie has been a self-taught artist. She worked primarily in colored pencil until in 1996, when she went on an African photo-safari with John Banovich and other artists. Banovich convinced her on that trip that she should learn to use oils and paint full time. She did.

Angie’s employment history has included being a Detective and a mounted patrol officer for departments in Utah, a Sheriff’s Department dispatcher in Idaho, a private investigator, and a horse trainer. But, her art has always been the one she returned to.

Angie has a wide variety of subjects in her “bag of art” - from wildlife to western themes; from cars & planes to military dramas and she enjoys experiencing and painting each one. Her husband, Walt, a retired US Fish & Wildlife Agent & biologist, and a Navy Veteran during Vietnam, is instrumental in the accuracy of Angie’s work. More than 20 years ago, Angie lived and sometimes worked on several ranches, living “the cowboy life” for awhile. In 1997, she and Walt spent 3 months on a wagon train as workers, travelling from Omaha, Nebraska, to Salt Lake City, Utah – over 1100 miles.

Angie was commissioned in 2001 by the Idaho Air National Guard to render two paintings for the 124th Wing. She painted a C130 Hercules and an A10 Thunderbolt Warthog. She and her father, who assisted her with photography, were taken on a C130 training flight to film the C130 and A10’s in flight. Angie was commissioned again in 2003, this time by the Idaho Army National Guard, to paint their Apache and Blackhawk helicopters. Angie and her husband were taken on training flights aboard a Blackhawk helicopter to film the Blackhawks and Apaches for these paintings. The National Guard recognized her ability to portray feeling and realistic content in her work, stating, “We’re honored to have an artist of your ability and talent paint for us.”

Angie loves to paint and draw what she has seen & experienced. She believes that “experiencing” the subject (as often as possible), not just seeing it in a zoo or museum, brings that “extra realism & feeling” to the picture. She and Walt have travelled to Africa, Alaska, Canada and all over the continental U.S. to accomplish this.

Angie won the 2004 Columbia Basin Western Art Show Poster competition; won the 1991 Idaho Ducks Unlimited Print and Artist of the Year; took second in the same contest in 1992; was a finalist in the 1991 Idaho Duck Stamp Contest; was a finalist in the 1999 Wyoming Conservation Stamp Contest / Top 40 Traveling Show; took the Director’s Choice Award at the 1989 NW Territorial Art Show in Pehashtin, WA (where Michael Gentry purchased one of Angie’s prints for his home) for a work in progress; was invited to show at the Pacific Rim in 1991; & was invited to show at the 1996 Friends of the National Zoo Show in Washington, D.C. She has won many other first place and Best of Show awards in local shows across the northwest. She has illustrated for Western Horseman magazine, Idaho Fish & Game, US Fish & Wildlife Service, BLM, IRS, and Smith & Wesson engraving. She has been published in “Best of Colored Pencil”, Western Horseman magazine, had an article written about her art and police work in Equine Images magazine, and has been interviewed and published in Inform Art magazine – the latest being the Winter 2004 issue.

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