First Frost on the Hi Line II Acrylic Print

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My affection for grain elevators grows in part from their spacing along the Hi Line of Northern Montana. Originally created for the railroad, the towns that dotted the line were spaced at 9 or 10 mile intervals. And the elevators, seen from far away, act much like church steeples in Europe - as tools of navigation and measures of distance. This may be why elevators are often called "cathedrals of the plains."

Visions of the Great Plains consists of drawings and watercolor paintings inspired by the American Great Plains, by Scott Kirby. Referred to as an accidental artist by Sandpoint Magazine, Kirby began painting in 2005, after 9 months of drawing with dual-tip brush pens. Although the attempts to capture these mostly imagined visions are quite intentional, the origins of Kirby's transition from music to art was, in a way, accidental, and unexpected. While drawing with his daughter Sara one afternoon, Kirby was suddenly compelled to continue into the night and following days, being bombarded by mental images which demanded expression. Weeks turned into months, and drawing turned into painting, all scenes rooted in a long relationship with...