Cheryl Livingston-Young
Western and Wildlife Artist
Cheryl Livingston-Young has been working and selling her art as a professional since 1995. While her primary subjects are wildlife and western, her work focuses, not so much on the particular animal or place in time, but her amazing ability to capture the realistic as well as her use of color and light. She spends many hours out in the field on wildlife photo shoots and all her works are painted from her own photographs. She is especially passionate about the wildlife living in the great Rocky Mountains of Utah and Colorado, the place Cheryl calls home.
Cheryl has recently returned from Alaska where she spent two weeks photographing the Alaskan wildlife. "It is truly the last of the great frontiers she states, after photographing in Denali National Park and seeing Mount McKinley you are changed forever".
The photo of Cheryl with Mount McKinley behind her was taken while she was on location in Denali National Park Alaska.
This Grizzle was but one of many that Cheryl was able to photograph while in Denali National Park
Cheryl has studied under the tutelage of the most accomplished and world renowned wildlife artist, John Seerey-Lester, at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute. She was the Director of the Utah Fine Art League of Roosevelt Utah; Director and Coordinator of "The Painted Sage Art Gallery"; is a member of the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum “Conservation through Art Education"; and has participated as a member of the Park City Professional Artists Association and the Kimball Art Center. Cheryl has taught Intermediate and Advanced Art at the Crossroads Art Center in Roosevelt, Utah. She coordinated, organized and exhibited her artwork in the "Evening of Fine Arts" held in Roosevelt Utah, an event that sold more than $8,000 in art, a percentage of which was donated back to the community. Cheryl is the owner of "Highdesert Arts of Utah" and much of her her work has been sold through her business.
Cheryl has participate in the following Juried Shows: the 28th Annual State- Wide Competition of the Eccles Community Art Center in Ogden, Utah; the "Wildlife and Rivers Plein Air Art Show"; and the “Outlaw Trails Festival of the Arts", the Uintah Arts Council's 16th Annual Art Show in Vernal, Utah.
Utah State University Uintah Basin in Roosevelt, Utah; the Uintah Basin Medical Center Arts Exhibit; and was featured, along with three other artists, in a four artist show, "Windows on the World," at the Western Heritage Museun and Art Gallery in Vernal, Utah. She has exhibited at: "The Painted Sage Art Gallery" in Roosevelt, Utah; (The show was touted as one of the best exhibits ever at the Museum and Gallery.) Cheryl has also exhibited at the Eccles Art Center in Ogden, Utah and the "Midway Plein Air Festival" in Midway, Utah. Her fine works are found in several private and corporate collections across the U.S.
