Gary Ernest Smith

Gary Ernest Smith can often be found creating artworks in his Highland, Utah, studio, or out in the vast, open spaces. “I like the challenge,” Smith says of painting en plein air. “You can never anticipate a gust, a wind is going to come up, whether you’re going to be attacked by insects, which happens often, or how quickly the atmosphere changes by the clouds moving, the sun moving also, and you try to get the things in first that will change the fastest.” Smith, who grew up on