Patrick Kikut has been painting and drawing the landscapes of the West for decades. He traveled the region with his family as a kid and had a creative awakening in college.
PHEONIX — With his eyes squinted, hand out to the horizon, painter Patrick Kikut surveyed the scene, to translate what he saw onto paper.
Kikut has been painting and drawing the landscapes of the West for decades. He traveled the region with his family as a kid and had a creative awakening in college. He found inspiration in Thomas Moran, a 19th-century artist whose paintings of Yellowstone motivated people to create America’s first national park.
Then, a few years ago, Kikut joined a team of researchers and other artists on a trip down the Green and Colorado rivers — the “original highway,” as Kikut calls it. But 2019 was a good water year. He returned last year, as reservoirs reached record lows. Now, some of his pieces inspired by the 2019 trip — as well as the return a few years later — are on display at the Basalt, Colorado, Regional Library in the Roaring Fork Valley, near a major tributary to the Colorado River.
The conservancy brings in speakers all the time to speak about water and river issues, often from the perspective of scientists, water managers and reporters. Earlier this year, they screened the documentary “A River Out of Time” about the SCREE trip, and coordinated an event with expedition leader Tom Minckley, a University of Wyoming professor.
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