Into the Wild—Painting Sacred Places

For more than twenty-five years, English artist Tony Foster has explored Earth’s wilderness regions with his watercolors. He travels slowly and deliberately, often backpacking on foot, creating his paintings onsite and adding finishing touches at his studio in Cornwall, England. Tony Foster?Sacred Places, Watercolour Diaries from the American Southwest is an exhibit focused on the Colorado Plateau and nearby sites.

Tony Foster asserts, “…All societies need to express their reverence for extraordinary places. Tribal societies express it through their religious practices and ceremonies. Our own, more secular society, expresses it by designating national and state parks, national forests and monuments, thus rendering them sacrosanct. It could be argued that the environmental movement is the secular means by which we express our need to honor the earth.”