About the Cover Artist Archives - Colorado Central Magazine

About the Cover Artist: Susan Mayfield

September 11, 2018June 1, 2018 by Mike Rosso

Susan Mayfield is an award-winning artist known for her use of color and light in her pastel and oil paintings. She was raised in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, a watery landscape dominated by rivers, creeks and marshes, where she lived until moving to Salida in 2007. Mayfield now divides her time between the high …

About the Cover Artist: Joshua Been

August 15, 2016December 1, 2015 by Mike Rosso

Joshua Been, born in 1974, had no shortage of outdoor adventures that cultivated his appreciation for the natural world. Drawing since he could manage a pencil, he was captivated by animation and cartooning. This interest remained with him throughout high school and an active duty enlistment in the U.S. Army. Been went on to pursue …

About the Cover Artist: Rita Roberts

February 22, 2016October 1, 2015 by Mike Rosso

Artist, writer and illustrator Rita Roberts lives and works in Monte Vista, Colorado. Her artwork is indelibly tied to the San Luis Valley, surrounded by the cycles of the upper Rio Grande, which flows a mile from her studio. Born in Nebraska, the artist still gravitates toward farmsteads and big, stormy skies. Her landscapes exist …

About the Cover Artist – Hal Walter

September 2, 2015August 1, 2015 by Mike Rosso

Colorado Central readers best know Hal Walter as an essayist and columnist, but he actually began his career in journalism as a photographer. Over the years his photos have appeared in several national and regional publications, including a recent cover for the inaugural issue of Local Food Shift, and of course, Colorado Central Magazine. On …

About the Cover Artist – Susan Spohn

July 17, 2015June 1, 2015 by Mike Rosso

Salida-based artist Susan Spohn describes herself as a gardener, recreating in paint the magic she feels when in the presence of flowers, critters and nature. Painting memories, visions and whimsy, her favorite medium is oil paint. She paints on wood panels using bristle brushes, painting knives, turpentine and varnish. Her paintings of textural garden scenes …

About the Cover Artist – Shirley Ann Tipping

February 23, 2015September 1, 2014 by Mike Rosso

Shirley Ann Tipping was born and raised in Liverpool, England. She has had a keen interest in photography since the age of 14. Shirley moved to Glasgow, Scotland in 1992, where she became a photographer’s assistant. She graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts with honors degree. Shirley …

About the Cover Artist – Judy Page

December 2, 2014August 1, 2014 by Mike Rosso

by Bill Hatcher Born and raised in Washington D.C., Judy Page has been a resident artist of Saguache since 1989. She earned a BFA in ceramics from Indiana University, Bloomington, and an AA in design from Montgomery College. She came to Saguache because the cost of living was inexpensive and real estate was cheap, so …

About the Cover Photographer – H. Mark Weidman

August 11, 2020July 1, 2014 by Mike Rosso

As a boy, Mark Weidman spent Friday nights (while his parents were out) digging a secret tunnel in his backyard. Not many seek adventure in suburban Philadelphia, but Mark was born to explore. A horseback trip in Yosemite when he was 14 introduced him to the panoramic beauty and wide-open spaces of the American West, …

About the Cover Artist: Paulette Brodeur

June 16, 2014June 1, 2013 by Mike Rosso

Artist Paulette Brodeur, a longtime fixture on the Salida arts scene, has had a presence downtown longer than most. She opened her first gallery, The Art Studio, on East Second Avenue back in 1994 along with artist Marcy Csiky and later on, Steph Brady. She eventually relocated to the corner of First and Ninth Streets where she created and displayed her colorful, vibrant works until early 2012, when flooding due to broken pipes forced her to relocate.

About the Cover Artist: Alan Cammack

June 16, 2014May 1, 2013 by Mike Rosso

When I was about eight years old, my mother put an old Pentax K1000 fully manual camera in my hand. We were on a trip to New York City for a opening of her artwork at a gallery there, and to this day the thing I remember the most about the trip was taking those first photos out the back window of a speeding cab. I remember how that simple act of encouragement changed my life. I realized that there is something new and interesting to see everywhere.

About the Cover Artist: Susan Mayfield

June 16, 2014March 1, 2013 by Mike Rosso

Susan Mayfield is an artist known for her color- and light-filled pastel and oil paintings of the landscape of the Southeast and Southwest. She is a native of South Carolina and spent most of her life in the Charleston area until 2008, when she and her husband, Lee Hunnicutt, moved to Salida, where she paints in a studio with a view of the Collegiate Peaks towering over the Arkansas River Valley.