Amery Bohling

Amery Bohling is well known for her vivid depictions of the American West. Her favorite subject — and the one for which she is most famous — is the Grand Canyon, endlessly fascinating, she says, for its vastness, complexity, and transcendent light. She has painted the Canyon many times, finding challenges in capturing the timelessness of the rocks, the ephemeral quality of the light and sky, and the fiery reds and brilliant blues that dominate that unique landscape.

Although she grew up in Phoenix, Bohling didn't discover the Canyon until long after she had earned her B.F.A. in painting and drawing from the University of Arizona and spent a year of her formal study at the Marchutz School of Art in Aix-en-Provence, France. There she learned to paint outdoors with the subject in full view, a technique that allows the artist to incorporate natural light and movement. She left France with a passion for outdoor painting, and in those early days, when she lived in California, her subjects were often found on the Pacific coast or the deserts of the Southwest. She experienced the Canyon for the first time in 2003, stopping by the North Rim after a painting trip in Canyon de Chelly. She was mesmerized by the play of light and amazing colors, and it wasn't long before she had made Arizona her home again, setting up a studio/gallery in Old Town Scottsdale, where she finishes paintings she has often started onsite. Her work might best be described as Romantic Naturalism, portraying the natural world with an undercurrent of human emotion. "I enjoy playing with reality, " Bohling says, "and keying up colors to make it more intense." She creates mood through her representation of sunlight and clouds.

Bohling is very active in the art scene, her work has been featured in magazines such as Western Art Collector, Southwest Art Magazine, Plein Air Magazine, American Artist Magazine, and Phoenix Home & Garden. She was featured on the cover of the April/May issue of *Southwest Art Magazine*; January 2025 she was on the cover of *Western Art Collector* Magazine; Her Painting entitled *Approaching the Windy Ridge* was featured on the cover of *Arizona Highways* in February of 2019, an issue celebrating the Grand Canyon's Centennial. Her awards include February 2025 Maynard Dixon Drawing Award for the Masters of Drawing Show at Medicine Man Gallery: 2024 Autry Masters of the West Award of Excellence by *Western Art Collector* Magazine, Honorable Mention; 2015 American Impressionist Society, Princeton Brush Award; 2010 Scottsdale Beaux Art Exhibition, Best in Show; 2008 Allied Artists of America, Fall Exhibition; 2007 Allied Artists of America, John Young Hunter Memorial Award; 2005 California Art Club’s Emerging Artist Award.