Most of my childhood summers were spent with my family living in a yellow tent on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.  My father, a biology professor at San Francisco State University, conducted his fieldwork there studying the rare Kaibab Squirrel, taking us along each year to “help”.  These summers created a deep appreciation in me for the canyon country and the native cultures of the Four Corners region.

 

Painting has always been a primary passion of mine, so it is probably not surprising that I pursued my higher education along those lines.  I earned my BFA from the University of Utah and MFA from Washington State University.  Completing these studies, I moved to New York City where I worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for several years.

 

After more than 30 years on the east coast where I raised my family in Washington, D.C., Chicago and the suburbs of Boston while painting and exhibiting the western imagery that I find so inspiring, I returned “home” to the west.   I now live and paint in Sedona, AZ.

 

The uplifting strength of the Grand Canyon and, in particular, the Native cultures that have evolved and endured in relationship to this powerful region are the lenses I continue to see my world through. If a painting is successful, some of the appreciation for the drama, power and sheer majesty of our world is shared.

 

 

 

Selected Exhibitions and Awards

 

2014           Mountain Oyster Club; 45th annual Western Art Show and Sale, Tucson, AZ

 

2014           Garlands Collector's Room, Sedona, AZ

 

2014           Bill Hester Fine Arts Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

 

2013           Sedona Art Museum, Sedona, AZ; invitational

 

2009-10      Kolb Studio Gallery, Grand Canyon National Park, AZ; solo exhibition

 

2008           Massachusetts Audubon Society, Sharon, MA; invitational

 

2005           QUER Gallery, Bern, SWITZERLAND; solo exhibition

 

2004           Mariposa Museum, Peterborough, NH; solo exhibition

 

1987           Greene Art Gallery, Guilford, CT; solo exhibition

 

1987           National Arts Club, New York, NY; “New York, 1987”

 

1986           C.G. Rein Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; “Emerging Artists”

 

1985           Ariel Gallery, New York, NY; “Landscapes & Still Life”

 

1980           East Bay Watercolor Society; San Francisco, CA; Award of Merit

 

 

Press

 

Louise Sheldon McDonald's book "Sedona's Best Artists"

 

Hopi Obsession: The Return of Sally Hall

 

Earth to Sky Exhibit: Grand Canyon National Park