M Shane

The majesty of nature draws me to the outdoors. The ocean or mountains have always been my refuge. Reliving those times through the process of creating art brings those memories and feelings back to the present. By sharing this art, perhaps it creates that same feeling of serenity for others.

Collecting inspiration from the world around us in photographs and daily illustrated journals bring inspiration. This forms the basis for my creative endeavors. Acrylic and other water-based medium are used in a variety of sizes on canvas, panels and 300# paper. Representational landscapes, trees and florals fill the studio.

While largely self-taught, mentors in my life have guided me through a variety of creative endeavors. Painting has become my passion. A constant exploration of additional mediums and subject expand my skill and challenge my inner artist.

Artlandish Studios is my creative base in Bozeman Montana.

KJ Coleman

Military aide, retail management, home contracting, computer design work, artist, master wood craftsman and schoolteacher, all career pursuits that now join to serve me quite well and create the best combination on this earth.

An artist and studio manager, creating new work through acrylic experimentation.

The aging process has led to a transition from detailed intricate work to a more contemporary, loose style with an emphasis on texture, color and composition.

Patty Buachman

Moving to Big Sky full time in 2010 and being surrounded by such amazing wildlife and natural beauty, my lifetime photography interest became a passion. My main goal with wildlife photography is to observe and catch an animal’s behavior and interactions in situations where they don’t mind my presence. Sometimes this is serendipitous and sometimes it calls for patience - like waiting hours for a grizzly napping on a carcass to wake up.

My photos have been published in local and national publications and have been sold in art shows and galleries. Currently there are several of my photos hanging in the Bozeman International Airport and four are displayed on the backs of the Swift Current Chairlift at Big Sky Resort.

Michelle Kristula Green

Michelle Kristula-Green is a contemporary mosaic artist, using local stone, flint, glass, Italian smalti, and more frequently, slate, shale and ceramic to create artworks that tell a story. Her work is inspired by the Yellowstone ecosystems unique sense of place, history and longevity and secondarily by Japan where she lived for many years.

She's based in Big Sky, MT, outside of Bozeman, and is a member of the Big Sky Artists Collective, and the Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA.) She studied at the Chicago Mosaic School, the only mosaic school in North America.

Her work is displayed and available for sale at the Big Sky Artists' Studio and Gallery at 88 Ousel Falls Rd in the Town Center, Big Sky, MT.

Annie McCoy

Although I loved art in high school, my parents considered a career in art too risky. Thus, I pursued my other interest and became a veterinarian. In 2007, I decided to become an artist as well. Plein air painting has allowed me to combine my love of the outdoors, nature and art. I am driven by my worship of wild places and the adventures therein, and I paint outdoors at every opportunity. Studio work is mostly reserved for inclement weather, winter and completing unfinished plein air work. I do not consider myself an Alla Prima plein air painter, but instead, I prefer a classical outdoor painter approach. Just as the Hudson River painters, I like to return again and again to the same location in order to complete a painting. Accompanying my fly-fishing husband to trout filled streams has fueled my experiences as a plein air artist. The great artist and fly-fisherman Frank Dumond noted, ‘Trout only live in beautiful places’. While hubby fishes, I paint and enjoy the moment. I am a simple Appalachian mountain girl who relishes her time in the wild. My hope is that I do justice with my tributes to our creator. I strive to capture my emotional response to being outdoors in beautiful places.

Jake Mosher

Jake Mosher is a two-time winner of both the World Nature Photography Awards and the National Wildlife Federation Photo Contest. Mosher has lived in SW Montana for thirty years, working as a published novelist, prize-fighter, and explosives engineer. Now a full-time nature photographer, his whose work has appeared across the globe. He is a member of the Big Sky Artist’s Gallery with a large display of fine art there.

MaryBeth Morand

MaryBeth Morand is a painter and printmaker who loves Montana's bounty of breathtaking skies, staggering peaks, old forests, big animals and rodeos. In her artwork, MaryBeth seeks to capture that particular moment in a sky or landscape or rodeo that invites us all to fall in love with Montana and fall hard. MaryBeth has been an art teacher on the Fort Belknap Reservation and has been the Teaching Artist for the Art Mobile of Montana.