Madina Croce, who signs her paintings "DINI", is an exciting new artist out of Santa Fe, New Mexico. She paints her impressionistic floral oils using a palette knife more often than a brush. This creates a dance of thick, brilliant colors that vibrate off her canvas. In addition to her floral paintings, she paints southwestern landscapes "en plein air", meaning outside.

Jim Dolan, from Belgrade, Montana, is a very well known metal sculptor who has contributed to the flavor of Ennis, as well as other places, with his outdoor sculptures that are sprinkled throughout the town. The pieces represented in the gallery are of the indoor variety and scale. His whimsical horses and other animals will add a finishing touch to any western décor. 

Jim and Maggi Dunakin are a husband and wife team from Big Timber, Montana who create stunning, one-of-a-kind jewelry. Dunakin classics break all the barriers! They are dramatic and bold, handmade pieces. Their creations are combinations of sterling silver and gold, as well as precious and semi-precious stones from around the world.

David Englund is new to the Depot Gallery this year. He is a life-long resident of Western Montana, currently living in Missoula. His bronze sculptures capture the essence of, and interaction between, different species.  His work is collected throughout the U.S., Canada, and South America. David's work has appeared in Southwest Art & Wildlife Art Magazines and he is a member of the Montana Professional Artists Association.

Malou Flato divides the year between Texas and the Paradise Valley, Montana near Yellowstone Park. Over the course of her career, she has created beautiful images in various mediums. Recently, the work shown at the gallery has included innovative pieces where she has melded paint with digitally scanned still life images. They are very interesting. She is also showing some of her more traditionally painted images.

Susan Fleming, from Bozeman, Montana, creates delicate, unique jewelry. Much of her recent work is inspired by wonderfully, decorative chiyogami papers.  The designs, both organic and geometric, are based on bright kimono textiles. She extracts small scenes from hand silk screened papers, then sets them in sterling silver with a thin waterproof layer of resign.

Trudi Gilliam, a metal artist from Ennis, Montana, creates jewelry using sea glass collected during various visits to the Caribbean. Called "Time and Tide," the collection combines Trudi's familiar metal work using copper and brass, with silver beads and sea glass. Gilliam also makes some of her own beads out of copper tubing and copper sheet which she then stains with acrylic paints. The pieces, mainly pendants and earrings, have a distinctly ancient look about them, almost as if they were found in an archeology dig in Egypt or Greece. 

Barry Hood is a glass artist from Helena, Montana. His organic pieces are truly special. Intrinsically beautiful, he uses glass as a medium to convey a translucent quality that gracefully expresses a reverence for nature.

Jim Hoyne resides in Big Sky, Montana. After hectic years as an ER physician, he decided to change careers. Now, he produces unique, heirloom quality, handcrafted custom furniture. He studied with Gary Rogowski, master furniture maker and author in Portland, Oregon. He uses a combination of native hardwoods and exotic woods to create custom pieces. He uses his own designs or will work with customers to create pieces based on their designs.

Ott Jones is new to the Depot Gallery this year and resides in Bozeman, Montana. Ott, an avid outdoors man, loves fly fishing, bird hunting, and archery. "I am very fortunate to be living and working in such a great place. I'm reminded of that every time I look out my studio window." Attending Washington State University on a tennis scholarship, Ott graduated in 1982. After college, he went to Alaska where he worked as a fishing guide for three summers and welder's helper on the Alaska pipeline in Prudhoe Bay for one year. "It was during my time in Alaska that I decided to become a wildlife sculptor. Living in that vast wilderness and observing all of its wildlife was something I'll always remember."

Kendahl Jan Jubb is a watercolor artist from Missoula, Montana. Her paintings are celebrations of color, with surprisingly vivid, frequently opaque color anchored in dramatic black color-fields. Her subjects reflect a bit of fantasy and romance, concentrating on animals, birds, and bouquets. She has illustrated children's books and been featured in art magazines.

Jessie Mackay, from Pinehurst, North Caroline, paints bold, impressionistic scenes in oil. Her strokes are made with broad brushes and her palette is filled with brilliant color. Many of her pieces shown in the gallery are bold statements about typical ranch life and domesticated animals, like cows and sheep. She also paints landscapes from her many journeys.

Laura Blue Palmer originally from Roanoke, Virgina, currently lives in Bozeman. She has a true passion for the wild spaces of the west, and explores her experience of nature in evocative abstract landscapes. "I love to work with color and light in representing the moods and places I have seen in the wilderness." She backpacked extensively in Montana,  Canada, Wyoming, and Alaska, and draws on these locations to create her oils. "My work is as much about memory as it is about place. I look upon my paintings as a map of my life, which I am constantly creating."

Barbara Pierce

Barbara Pierce was born and raised in New Jersey.  After fifteen years of traveling between their homes in Ennis and New Jersey, Barbara and her husband became year round Montana residents in 2004. 

Kimberley Navatril Pope is a fifth generation Montanan, currently living in Bozeman. She creates jewelry that is meant to reflect the changing shades of nature, incorporating reflective objects such as glass, foils and gems. Each piece is designed and created using tools that have been used since ancient times. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Gallery and has been shown in the White House. She has been published in national magazines.

Cynthia Out West, who makes Bozeman, Montana her home, creates jewelry inspired by the endless palate of colors and textures of western Montana, Glacier, Tetons and Yellowstone National Park. She uses natural gemstones in each original piece; no two are the same. Her mission is to provide beautiful, quality jewelry, honoring craftsmanship.

Ed Totten a native Montanan, is a nationally known artist who maintains a studio in Ennis, Montana. His many talents include oil paintings, woodcarvings and bronze sculptures. His subject matter is just as vast, ranging from realistic underwater fish scenes, to Native American scenes, to landscapes. Both the art and sporting communities have embraced his work. Many of his recent works are glorious landscapes of the special spots in the Madison Valley.

John Turner is from Lewistown, Montana. His passion for glass and ceramics drives him to create three-dimensional forms of exquisite beauty. Turner has realized his dream and today produces off-hand blown glass, fused glass and ceramics in the state-of-the-art studio where he transforms the elements of earth and fire into works of art. 

Carol Zirkle, who lives in Toston, Montana, is a pastel artist. She uses vibrant pigments to capture Montana's beautiful skies and landscapes. As you view her paintings, you can transform yourself, imagining you are right there in the scene. Take a slice of the "last best place", we call Montana, home with you to enjoy every day.