Fifty years at the easel, and the country I know.
A working studio at Creekwood Ranch, in the headwaters of Palo Duro Canyon.
Lifelong art study. Studio active 50+ years at Creekwood Ranch in the Palo Duro Canyon headwaters, Texas. Inspiration: horses, cattle, Prairie Dog Town Fork of Red River, family, and faith.
Lee Blakeney has painted from a single working studio at Creekwood Ranch, in the Palo Duro Canyon headwaters of the Texas Panhandle, for nearly fifty years. The country itself is the studio's first material — the light over the Prairie Dog Town Fork at six in the morning, the way a draw of cottonwood holds the dawn before it lets go, the quiet of a chapel at Canoncita.
The work returns, season after season, to the same handful of subjects: horses standing in pasture before the day asks anything of them, cattle moving slow across grass, the Red River at first light, and the small chapels of the high country. It is a long-form attention, not a series of subjects.
Lee shows by appointment from the public studio at Arts in the Sunset in Amarillo. Inquiries, commissions, and studio visits all begin with a note through the contact page.
Exhibitions & selected history
A working list.
Lee's exhibition history is being compiled and will appear here. Solo and group shows, juried exhibitions, and selected commissions across the Panhandle and the wider Southwest.