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Bruce Hill has the home page this week, as he is our guest artist for April.  Bruce is a landscape painter, specializing in the Grand Canyon and the landscape of the Four Corners region.

He started painting during the summer of 1974,  and has never stopped.  Landscape has always been an important part of his life.  He grew up on a farm in the Midwest and spent countless hours outside with only the task at hand, the dynamic sky, and the gentle roll of the land to occupy my mind.  At the Grand Canyon, his mind was more than occupied, it was overwhelmed.

All of his “day jobs” over the years have allowed him to soak up spectacular landscapes.  For the past forty years, he worked seasonal jobs for the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service and painted during the off-seasons.  For the last fifteen years, he has worked as a fire lookout perched on Red Butte just south of the Grand Canyon. He paints with a 100 mile view of the dramatic Northern Arizona terrain.

Of his art he says "Even though I have sold hundreds of paintings over the years, it is only now, at age 60, that I am mature as an artist and ready to present my vision and passion for landscape to the world."

We are proud to have him as our guest artist this month.